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New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "As self-driving cars come to more states, regulators take a back seat"

lucidguppy2000 — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:21:06 +0000

The governments are giving the companies enough rope to hang themselves.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?"

lucidguppy2000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:06:46 +0000

Write characterization tests for modules, see what inputs produce which outputs. Then you have the start of unit tests.

Programming with unit tests really helps. And it points out where certain parts are too entangled and bound to implementation.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Why Go is doomed to succeed"

lucidguppy2000 — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:25:20 +0000

How does go prevent complexity?

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "How to Make Almost Anything"

lucidguppy2000 — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:39:03 +0000

I wish high-schools would add some of this stuff to after school programs.

Learning to make circuit boards would have helped me with all my spaghetti wiring I do/did.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but..."

lucidguppy2000 — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:13:06 +0000

Also - a big motivation for work is learning. Didn't someone say "never apply for a position your qualified for"?

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Why Our Genome and Technology Are Both Riddled with “Crawling Horrors”"

lucidguppy2000 — Sun, 17 May 2015 21:29:38 +0000

Keep in mind - a function shouldn't contain more than one level of abstraction really. Having a 50+ line function, the code is telling you that you have a class in there struggling to get out.

Also - you may be superior to others and able to understand a 50 line function. But what about your colleagues?

The average cognitive limits of are well known. I doubt we will evolve to beyond these flaws in my lifetime.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Why Our Genome and Technology Are Both Riddled with “Crawling Horrors”"

lucidguppy2000 — Sun, 17 May 2015 17:40:47 +0000

Nothing's really jumped out to me yet, but tools need to raise flags about the complexity of code. A pre-commit hook that recognizes long functions, classes with more than ten member variables, classes that program to an implementation rather than interface? Could it check to see that classes that can be easily unit-tested are?

The world expects programmers to make clean code, but we've not really advanced our tools much outside of Java and C#. I'm always envious of what the refactoring tools can do in those languages.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Node and ARM"

lucidguppy2000 — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:43:07 +0000

Where are the numbers? In my experience node is very slow on ARM.

Spin up a http server on arm and check out the latency for it to return "".

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]"

lucidguppy2000 — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:54:52 +0000

The scientific term for work needs to get into the general culture. You can expend a whole lot of energy without doing any actual work. "Working harder" is actually "expend energy" while the actual work done is the same.

New comment by lucidguppy2000 in "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century (1998)"

lucidguppy2000 — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:15:57 +0000

I wish there was a language that was actually multiple levels of compatible languages.

At one end would be dynamic and scripted and would progress to the other side of compiled and static. You would start out at one end for speed of development and progressively optimize and compile.

I suppose python and cython are that language. But it's not as popular as it should be.