Screen studio does make the best-looking demo videos I've seen. Any favorite alternatives? Points for free or open source.
A single line of code cost $8000
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Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#222For people finding this thread via web search in the future: screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes. The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which c…
Little Snitch catches these update request checks and I realize now that it should have an additional rule meta which is *how often* this endpoint request should be allowed (LS should allow throttling not just yes / no)
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#223For people finding this thread via web search in the future: screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes. The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which c…
$8000 for 2 petabytes of traffic is pretty cheap for them also.
There are plenty of shitty ISPs out there who would charge $$ per gigabyte after you hit a relatively small monthly cap. Even worse if you're using a mobile hotspot.
I would be mortified if my bug cost someone a few hundred bucks in overages overnight.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
The big clouds love these people too. So much of the software industry is just an outrageous combination of inexperience and "YOLO". Every problem can be solved by just giving AWS another $100,000 this month because we don't have time (and don't know how) to make even basically optimized software. So just burn the gas and electricity and give more money to the YAML merchants at Amazon.
That was the promise of "The Cloud". Data centers are big and scary, no body wanted to run their own. The hypothetical cost savings of firing half the IT department was too good to pass up. AWS even offered some credits to get started, first hit's free. Next thing you know your AWS spend is out if control. It just keeps growing and growing and growing. Instead of writing better software, which might slow down develop…
> Instead of writing better software, which might slow down development, just spend more money.
Except this is unironically a great value proposition.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#225Honestly, that's a rough one. I've written dumb bugs like that before, cost nowhere near $8k tho lmao. Kinda makes me extra paranoid about what my code's actually doing in the background.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#226Screen studio does make the best-looking demo videos I've seen. Any favorite alternatives? Points for free or open source.
Posted two days ago.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#227For people finding this thread via web search in the future: screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes. The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which c…
> their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes How on earth is a screen recording app 250 megabytes
>> their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes
> How on earth is a screen recording app 250 megabytes
How on earth is a screen recording app on a OS where the API to record the screen is built directly into the OS 250 megabytes?
It is extremely irresponsible to assume that your customers have infinite cheap bandwidth. In a previous life I worked with customers with remote sites (think mines or oil rigs in the middle of nowhere) where something like this would have cost them thousands of dollars per hour per computer per site.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Code reviews kill velocity - introduce context switching, and are make work, it feels like you’re doing something to make a PR etc but your not. The context it makes the most sense is accepting code from strangers in a low trust environment. The alternative to trying to prevent mistakes is making it easy to find and correct them. Run CI on code after it’s been merged and send out emails if it’s failed. At the end of…
> Code reviews kill velocity - introduce context switching, and are make work This is the same point three times, and I don't agree with it. This is like saying tests kill velocity, there's nothing high velocity about introducing bugs to your code base. Everything introduces context switching, there's nothing special about code reviews that makes it worse than answering emails, but I'm not going to ignore an importan…
> This is the same point three times
No it isn’t. Fake work, synchronization, and context switching are all separate problems.
> code reviews are a way to catch those
I said you can do reviews - but there is no reason to stop work to do them.
Why not require two or three reviews if they are so helpful at finding mistakes?
I agree everyone makes mistakes - that’s why I would design a process around fixing mistakes, not screening for perfection.
How many times have you gone back to address review comments and introduced a regression because you no longer have the context in your head?
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#229For people finding this thread via web search in the future: screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes. The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which c…
Microsoft InTune WUDO has a similar bug costing my department 40000 € internal charging per month for firewall log traffic of blocked tcp 7680 requests. 86000 requests per day per client, 160 million per day total. MS confirmed the bug but did nothing to fix it.
Re: A single line of code cost $8000
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s pretty much the floor for an Electron app. If you’re a small shop or solo dev, it is real hard to justify going native on three platforms when electron gives it for (near) free. And outside of HN, no one seems to blink at a 250MB bundle. There are alternatives like Tauri that use the system browser and allow substantially smaller bundles, but they’re not nearly as mature as Electron, and you will get cross pla…
> And outside of HN, no one seems to blink at a 250MB bundle. I can remember when I would have to leave a 250MB download running overnight. Before that, I can remember when it would have filled my primary hard drive more than six times over. ... Why can't the app-specific code just get plugged into a common, reusable Electron client?
You mean like WebKit which Tauri uses?