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<blockquote data-quote="fleurya" data-source="post: 281520" data-attributes="member: 22866"><p>I like xtophercaa's philisophical and romantic take on being constrained by not upgrading your own system. But I think that idea is more in line with necessity being them other of invention, or, in other words, working to find a way to complete a task because the necessary "tools for the job" are not available. But since being able to otherwise get the "tools for the job" is possible in another way, it seems like you're forcing yourself to work harder to achieve the same result. </p><p></p><p>It reminds me of the saying "work smarter, not harder" where working in constrained conditions is wokring harder and being able to upgrade as technology allows is working smarter. In realistic terms, how is having older, slower technology going to help one write a better program, get work more done faster, or not run programs as well as they could be run, as these are just a few of the goals of using modern computing. If creative constraint has any base, we would all do well to go back to the Apple I of 1976.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fleurya, post: 281520, member: 22866"] I like xtophercaa's philisophical and romantic take on being constrained by not upgrading your own system. But I think that idea is more in line with necessity being them other of invention, or, in other words, working to find a way to complete a task because the necessary "tools for the job" are not available. But since being able to otherwise get the "tools for the job" is possible in another way, it seems like you're forcing yourself to work harder to achieve the same result. It reminds me of the saying "work smarter, not harder" where working in constrained conditions is wokring harder and being able to upgrade as technology allows is working smarter. In realistic terms, how is having older, slower technology going to help one write a better program, get work more done faster, or not run programs as well as they could be run, as these are just a few of the goals of using modern computing. If creative constraint has any base, we would all do well to go back to the Apple I of 1976. [/QUOTE]
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