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by intrasight 3385 days ago
I often wonder the same. In '90 I helped build a primitive web browser, including an interpretive language. Used it to instrument a couple nuclear power plants. Displays were graphically rich, and had to load in < 1 sec and display real-time plant data. I don't ever recall waiting for my IDE (emacs) to start, or even waiting very long for a full build to complete.

When we have less, we make due with less. When we have more, we consume more. It's sort of like money.

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Forgive the nitpick, but it is "make do", if only because "make due" reads very awkwardly in British English where "due" is pronounced as if it is spelled with a U and an E, not as if it is spelled with two O's
I learned something grammatical today.