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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 mu…

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 p…

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

The privacy friendliness was the killer for me

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

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

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 tim…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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…

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

...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 …

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

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

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…

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 yo…

There is some advice in meditation books to practice gratitude and empathy that is supposed to help.

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?

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