jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
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jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
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
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
Braid was 3+ years iirc (according to a gamasutra interview I read)
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers
The privacy friendliness was the killer for me
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
My hope is that the refactoring today will pay me back over the next 6 months in saved time / stability
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
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)
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
Those upgrades werent free, they were hidden in the cost of the machine
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
Non OEM copies of Windows are like $200+ (unless you buy the fake/scam keys from amazon recommended windows sellers)
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
Just because the other skeezy companies do it doesn’t legitimize it. That’s like saying colonialism was great because everyone was doing it
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Tracking systems of TV streaming devices
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
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Systemd Home Directories
I wonder sometimes how well you could apply Unix ideas to non-OS projects. Eg, game engines, web frameworks
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I find investors?
My family income was under 1/3 that and I left school to pay the bills
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure
“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...)
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
Anybody with experience launching a unity game on Linux? If so, we’re there any complications that made the process difficult?
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)
...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
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: This person does not exist
What is the license for these images? I can imagine them being handy for fictional character portraits
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Systemd isn't safe to run anywhere
I recently read that sending audio over tcp was untenable and that Udp was the only way to go (at least for streaming)
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Systemd isn't safe to run anywhere
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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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