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Recommend me an architecture concept or book. I’m trying to learn how to keep my “velocity” up over time
Edit: you made Sumatra?? I’ve been using that for a decade, thank you so much for creating it! I put it on all my family’s machines, it’s the fastest PDF reader I’ve found
My last company had a code base with X LOC and Y engineers, and it took Z years to write. It was medical software, so it was very heavily tested. It worked out to about 14-20 LOC per day per engineer, although for the first few years the team was smaller so let’s say 28-40 during those years (maybe even doubled once or twice temporarily when the company was founded). The slowness later on made up for the speed early on
In terms of lines of changes total in git merges, multiply it by 10 or more.
edit: updated loc numbers to include some file types that I forgot about
Braid was 3+ years iirc (according to a gamasutra interview I read)
The privacy friendliness was the killer for me
Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members
My hope is that the refactoring today will pay me back over the next 6 months in saved time / stability
Over the last 2 months I’ve managed about 3k new loc and 90 classes, so that’s about 60ish lines per work day. I don’t feel like I was that productive though and spent a lot of time refactoring. Eg, last 1k lines barely added any features
What do you do to keep up a fast pace in a big project without throwing quality out? They say TDD increases your speed overall, according to a few case studies I found (15% longer to code, but 40% less bugs, so faster finish times overall etc)
Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising
Those upgrades werent free, they were hidden in the cost of the machine
Non OEM copies of Windows are like $200+ (unless you buy the fake/scam keys from amazon recommended windows sellers)
Just because the other skeezy companies do it doesn’t legitimize it. That’s like saying colonialism was great because everyone was doing it
Here’s a question: when my old tv dies, where can I even get a new non-smart tv? I haven’t seen a new one sold in years now
I wonder sometimes how well you could apply Unix ideas to non-OS projects. Eg, game engines, web frameworks
My family income was under 1/3 that and I left school to pay the bills
“we all found out that our local search boxes are somehow dependent on some service working at Microsoft.” She attacked the company for a lack of transparency and gave it a maximum ‘Pinocchio score’ for a lack of trust.
I miss Ubuntu (minus their amazon scandal...)
Anybody with experience launching a unity game on Linux? If so, we’re there any complications that made the process difficult?
...I used to joke with my wife this must be the case.
My dog spends so much time trying to find the right place. It’s during the day, so it can’t be astrology, so must be leylines or the magnetic field of the earth. Elementary really
She will get a kick out of this article for sure
What is the license for these images? I can imagine them being handy for fictional character portraits
I recently read that sending audio over tcp was untenable and that Udp was the only way to go (at least for streaming)
If systemd is as bad as people say, why did every major distro adopt it?
Honestly, it has been so dramatic to read about this - why did it go through almost everywhere if there are such concerns? Are the concerns unfounded?
Speaking of gaming, I passed the 95th percentile in 2 games. It takes a lot of work. You don’t feel that good when you do it because you have learned about all the weaknesses in your own play. However, put yourself in a team with some 60th percentile players and you can carry pretty hard.
It felt like the 80-85th group (diamond) is where people actually start knowing how to play properly. Lots of mechanics to practice before then though - you only get to that point by automating the lower level skills
There is some advice in meditation books to practice gratitude and empathy that is supposed to help.
When proving its correct, isn’t there always the possibility that the proof abstracted away some real world nuance into an assumption, and that assumption could be wrong?
It’s always relevant because the world has a good idea how the Australia treats data privacy and security. Their elected officials are shooting their tech sector in the gut
Our Plex AppleTV app has begun aggressively pushing its own content lately. It’s a nuisance to navigate to where our personal content is now
Fastmail is good but I bet the Australian government is vacuuming up everything you send/receive. I’m considering ProtonMail again now that there is calendar
I never used twitter until last year when I made an account. They flagged me for following 5 people and liking some posts, locked me out, and notified me that any attempts to send support a request would be ignored. I can’t even log in or contact anyone to delete the account.
I guess the future is to be given the middle finger so eagerly by bad ai all the time
The really important thing would be if more Canadian founders were able to create massive companies successfully. The jobs are certainly welcome but I want to hear about more successful companies owned by Canadians
...AMD seems hurt a lot less than intel by these exploits so far, and are also releasing some really cool hardware. It might be good to buy some stock and see how the next few years go?
The best part of startup culture is the idea of being able to create something that can grow big while starting as a small player. The rest is just marketing and envy over ceo bonuses.
My town doesn’t really have that culture, but we have a decent small business culture at least.