jammygit

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...)