Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143377

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She's Ruth Golding btw. https://librivox.org/reader/2607?primary_key=2607&search_cat...

I just tried making some frames for the dune remake. The editor is so hard to use. I can only draw a one pixel line with no smoothing. It’s really laggy/glitchy. I can barely even make out what the original frame is because it’s in grayscale with an overlay. I got one frame that could have been a landscape of snow and rocks, or it could have been sand dunes, or water. I have no idea, it was just gray and white blobs.

I get that they are going for a retro style, but even MS paint had different size brushes.

It’s such a cool idea, I wish the tooling was better.

In theory, if they used a regex it would be using a state machine to do the matching, which should have similar performance to the trie- only O(k) in the worst case. But from what I understand regex libraries don't actually build the state machine, they use backtracking so the performance is no longer O(k).

I'm surprised they couldn't find a performant regex library that already existed that uses state machines. It should have similar performance to the trie. But in reality, the performance is affected more deeply by things like memory access patterns and the performance of specific arithmetic operations, so it's impossible really to speculate.

I don't know why they needed to kill the web interface if they still let you 'backup' your location history to the cloud.

After more than a decade at large sw companies, I can count on one hand the number of migrations where the legacy system was ever able to be turned down. I’ve seen migrations drag on for years, to the point where most of the team has turned over. I’ve seen them become a three-way migration because the second version was deemed insufficient so a third solution was introduced.

Absolutely put your most senior devs on this; maintain as much support from management as possible; budget for much, much more time than you think; you need full commitment or you are going to be maintaining both systems indefinitely.