397: Electron Ennui

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Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

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Links:

• Electron package guidelines — Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.
• Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO — “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”
• Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com
• MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors — This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.
• The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research