#software bloat

[plantsucc]

bloatware is a lovely word. describes windows 10's preinstalled junk apps like candy crush perfectly.

[uguardian]

Playing around with the new debugging tool I picked up yesterday revealed something amusing. I was thinking of a better way to implement a feature, but worried about how many resources my program was already using. There is a limit, after all.

Well, it turns out that my code uses about 45 handles. That seems like a lot, but other programs I checked with this tool use around 280 or more. In some cases, they use that many to do the same stuff my program does.

Either I don't need to worry, or everything I checked is bloated as hell.

[uguardian]

I’ve heard of software bloat before, but this is just ridiculous!

Somehow, the development server ended up with 1 MB cluster sizes, which means 35.2 MB of data is using just shy of 1 GB on the drive. Crazy.

(I’m also pretty sure that the creation date is wrong, but that’s not terribly important)

[newsdock]

Carriers have a sneaky new way to add more bloatware to your Android phone

Leave it to wireless carriers to come up with new ways to give you something that you never asked for. Forbes contributor Matt Hickey reports that a company called Digital Turbine has pioneered a new service called Ignite that will let mobile carriers install additional software onto your Android phone “for more advertising revenue” whenever they want and without your permission. This means that in addition to the bloatware you already get from your carrier on your Android phone, you could get even more installed at your carrier’s whims. RELATED: Here’s how Verizon’s Android bloatware might become the best ever So far, Digital Turbine says that Verizon and T-Mobile have signed up as clients although we don’t specifically know if any of them http://dlvr.it/7hrzDm