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New comment by jammygit in "Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:47:09 +0000

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

New comment by jammygit in "Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:41:21 +0000

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

New comment by jammygit in "Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:35:48 +0000

Braid was 3+ years iirc (according to a gamasutra interview I read)

New comment by jammygit in "Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:26:59 +0000

The privacy friendliness was the killer for me

New comment by jammygit in "Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:21:37 +0000

Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members

New comment by jammygit in "Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:17:03 +0000

My hope is that the refactoring today will pay me back over the next 6 months in saved time / stability

New comment by jammygit in "Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:42:03 +0000

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)

New comment by jammygit in "Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?"

jammygit — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:07:31 +0000

Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising

New comment by jammygit in "Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu"

jammygit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:23:27 +0000

Those upgrades werent free, they were hidden in the cost of the machine

New comment by jammygit in "Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu"

jammygit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:22:50 +0000

Non OEM copies of Windows are like $200+ (unless you buy the fake/scam keys from amazon recommended windows sellers)

New comment by jammygit in "Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu"

jammygit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:20:52 +0000

Just because the other skeezy companies do it doesn’t legitimize it. That’s like saying colonialism was great because everyone was doing it

New comment by jammygit in "Tracking systems of TV streaming devices"

jammygit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:47:51 +0000

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

New comment by jammygit in "Systemd Home Directories"

jammygit — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:38:07 +0000

I wonder sometimes how well you could apply Unix ideas to non-OS projects. Eg, game engines, web frameworks

New comment by jammygit in "Ask HN: How do I find investors?"

jammygit — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:41:56 +0000

My family income was under 1/3 that and I left school to pay the bills

New comment by jammygit in "Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure"

jammygit — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 23:58:14 +0000

“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...)

New comment by jammygit in "Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux"

jammygit — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 23:11:04 +0000

Anybody with experience launching a unity game on Linux? If so, we’re there any complications that made the process difficult?

New comment by jammygit in "Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)"

jammygit — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:06:02 +0000

...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

New comment by jammygit in "This person does not exist"

jammygit — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:22:58 +0000

What is the license for these images? I can imagine them being handy for fictional character portraits

New comment by jammygit in "Systemd isn't safe to run anywhere"

jammygit — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:34:32 +0000

I recently read that sending audio over tcp was untenable and that Udp was the only way to go (at least for streaming)

New comment by jammygit in "Systemd isn't safe to run anywhere"

jammygit — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:51:20 +0000

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?