jammygit

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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
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 te
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by jammygit 7y ago
Braid was 3+ years iirc (according to a gamasutra interview I read)
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by jammygit 7y ago
The privacy friendliness was the killer for me
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by jammygit 7y ago
Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members
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by jammygit 7y ago
My hope is that the refactoring today will pay me back over the next 6 months in saved time / stability
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by jammygit 7y ago
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 W
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by jammygit 7y ago
Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising
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by jammygit 7y ago
Those upgrades werent free, they were hidden in the cost of the machine
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by jammygit 7y ago
Non OEM copies of Windows are like $200+ (unless you buy the fake/scam keys from amazon recommended windows sellers)
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by jammygit 7y ago
Just because the other skeezy companies do it doesn’t legitimize it. That’s like saying colonialism was great because everyone was doing it
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
I wonder sometimes how well you could apply Unix ideas to non-OS projects. Eg, game engines, web frameworks
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by jammygit 7y ago
My family income was under 1/3 that and I left school to pay the bills
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by jammygit 7y ago
“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
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by jammygit 7y ago
Anybody with experience launching a unity game on Linux? If so, we’re there any complications that made the process difficult?
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by jammygit 7y ago
...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 wi
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by jammygit 7y ago
What is the license for these images? I can imagine them being handy for fictional character portraits
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by jammygit 7y ago
I recently read that sending audio over tcp was untenable and that Udp was the only way to go (at least for streaming)
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by jammygit 7y ago
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?
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
There is some advice in meditation books to practice gratitude and empathy that is supposed to help.
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by jammygit 7y ago
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?
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
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 c
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by jammygit 7y ago
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
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by jammygit 7y ago
...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?
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by jammygit 7y ago
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

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