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The Forrest Through The Trees
Personal blog · jlforrest.wordpress.comprogrammingcareer
The Forrest Through The Trees is a personal blog at jlforrest.wordpress.com about programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Forrest's blog for essays on why people stopped upgrading PCs, including the 'Forrest curve' on computers being fast enough, and for a post on a failed Evernote migration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A few well chosen words.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-01
What Hacker News says?
This blog post[0] explains it pretty well: "Fewer and fewer computer users think their computer is too slow." And therefore they only buy new computer if the current one breaks. "This happens less and less often. Even most disk drives, which are about the most mechanical part of a computer system, come with at least a 3 year warranty." "It means that computer purchasing decisions are no longer made based on price/pe…
Comment linking /2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve/
on “Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown”Submitted The True Story Behind “No Bozos” (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCloud gaming is inevitable because of the Moore's law but as Moore's law slows down "fewer and fewer computer users will think their computer is too slow[0]." And they won't buy new computer or laptop for gaming because the computer they already have will be powerful enough to run most of the games. This is where the complexity of managing games and managing the whole gaming experience comes along. Simply offering c…
Comment linking /2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve/
on “GeForce Now: A Review”Moore's Law is more about what's available than what people choose to buy. PCs have been over-serving people's needs for years which is why many people are spending less and less money on PCs. This was predicted by Jon Forrest around 1995; it took longer than he predicted to happen but it did happen. https://jlforrest.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve... DRAM technology is also stagnating; the industry has…
Comment linking /2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve/
on “Ask HN: Does Moore's Law apply to RAM and if so, is it finally ending?”I wrote about a failed attempt to migrate from Evernote to Google Docs in https://jlforrest.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/an-unsuccessful-e... . I eventually just migrated to OneNote and copied my notes over manually.
Comment linking /2021/01/21/an-unsuccessful-evernote-to-google-docs-conversion-project/
on “Ask HN: How did you migrate off Evernote?”