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by badfrog 8y ago
It take about 1.5 seconds to move the gear shift. You can wait that long before changing the radio station.
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by badfrog 8y ago
Are you able to talk to the original author or the most recent maintainer? If so, I'd spend a couple hours reading the code on my own to get a basic familiarity, then sit down with the original author and ask them to give you an overvi
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by badfrog 8y ago
> What is your problem with the code base actually? All OP has told us about the codebase is that it's big, it's in Node, and it's 3 years old. It doesn't sound like they think there's any problem with it.
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by badfrog 8y ago
Very many developers have this as their first thought whenever they see somebody else's code for the first time. Likely it's just a response to being confused about how or why something works. It's easier to think that somebo
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by badfrog 8y ago
The example in the article appears to have the same screen size as a current-gen flagship phone. If you're going to keep the same screen, battery, etc and add a keyboard, it pretty much has to be bulkier.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> I think OP was trying to say that stuff with more moving parts has more points of failure than stuff with no moving parts That's a reasonable point, but it seems they've chosen to illustrate the point with an example that isn
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by badfrog 8y ago
There's really no need for more than one hand on the wheel unless you're turning, in which case you shouldn't be using radio controls anyway.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> What is the deal with flat design these days? I cannot figure out where to click. Have you used Windows 10 recently or a trendy website lately? It's a disaster in terms of UX. Google's Material design system actually works we
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by badfrog 8y ago
> Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ die rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the die rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other
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by badfrog 8y ago
I meant that on average a police officer who has committed a crime in the past is more susceptible than one who has not. It seems your suggestion is that people would fight to keep their past crimes secret? That's an interesting altern
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by badfrog 8y ago
Indeed a lot of the changes in the past few decades seem to be based entirely on appeasing the public's fear. One-strike eviction from public housing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_strike,_you%27re_out Expande
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by badfrog 8y ago
Another potential reason is that the list would be a great starting point for somebody who was looking for a police officer to bribe. I'm not saying that's sufficient justification, just spitballing ideas.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> the US incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country A large part of this is ridiculously long sentences. You called out California's three strikes law in you comment. One example of this I heard on th
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by badfrog 8y ago
> the idea of imprisonment is not going anywhere I don't have any ideas off the top of my head, but I think it's definitely worth exploring alternative deterrents and punishments to see if there's anything equally effectiv
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by badfrog 8y ago
> I wonder if you're talking about an attitude that you think the OP ought to have Yes, of course I am. My question was rhetorical. It sounds like that person understands that there are serious race issues in the criminal justice sy
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by badfrog 8y ago
To clarify, the actual article does have "biblical" in the title, it was just removed from the HN submission.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> As a father of daughters [...] > Were I African American [...] I might feel differently. Why can't you incorporate women's issues into your world view without having daughters? Or civil rights issues without being black?
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by badfrog 8y ago
Why was the word "biblical" removed from the title? It definitely seems relevant to know that this is a religious argument.
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by badfrog 8y ago
> In my experience, direct coordination on interfaces tends to create unnecessary special cases (hey, can you add this field to your API, just for us?) which add complexity and make maintenance more difficult down the line. If you just i
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by badfrog 8y ago
> if you broadcast clearly that undocumented behaviors are subject to change, then users can decide if they want to accept that risk That sounds nice in theory, but doesn't really work in practice. If you're building infra and
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by badfrog 8y ago
Aside from the working overtime part, what sounds dysfunctional?
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by badfrog 8y ago
> decisions about their respective products should be contained within each team, with clearly defined interfaces and usage documentation. In order to make those decisions and define the interfaces, you need to know a lot about how your
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by badfrog 8y ago
Probably we can agree that a company will be more productive if the engineers are learning from each other and generating ideas together? So if you've got a team of engineers who don't like working with people, it's probably
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by badfrog 8y ago
In my experience the re-write always takes much longer than expected. Sure you might be able to redo the core pieces to handle the new problem in X weeks, but then it's going to take another 4*X weeks to handle all the edge cases and m
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by badfrog 8y ago
> They stopped talking to each other because they didn't share any code, no issues... they stopped having lunch together Was that accompanied by any growth in company size? I've found that this happens when a group grows past a
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by badfrog 8y ago
How is people not talking to each other an improvement?
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by badfrog 8y ago
What's your point? I don't think anybody was commenting on how far those numbers go.
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by badfrog 8y ago
line-height
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by badfrog 8y ago
I'd guess there's high correlation between people who want this and people who use emacs, which is a non-trivial portion of HN readers.
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by badfrog 8y ago
Does anybody know of a good browser extension to apply some default CSS to sites you visit? It took me just 4 lines to turn the CSS-free NPR site into something that I enjoy reading. Before and after: https://imgur.com/a&#x2

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