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The months-long project demonstrates the physics behind the CPUs we take for granted Sorry, no DOOM
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Words (like absolutely amazing incredible awesome) fail me.
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According to a blogpost by former EA developer Adam Berg, different teams take very different approaches to development with one team in particular being especially slow to progress. But are they the *right* 3 lines of code?
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@Super-Lloyd, what say you?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: @Super-Lloyd, what say you?
He can't answer until tomorrow, he's busy changing 3 lines of code. 
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 Probably!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nah.. this is gamejam week! Where we (tool developers, as opposed to game developer) make (and most importantly, learn how to make) a game! Yeah!
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well it's true, it can take even more, but I don't see the relationship with agile...
here are the multiple factor at work:
1. the codebase is huge and sometimes convoluted, those 3 lines might seem mysterious (unfortunately)
2. you might need to have your code reviewed (in fact, almost all the time) and approved by the other side of the world or nobody rush to the review
3. we don't submit the code directly (or do pull request), instead we go though a checking pipeline which runs some 10,000+ automated test on every query (there are thousands+ developer) it sometimes takes many hours
4. there might be other teams (not even part of the huge code repositories I work with) that have modified the codebase, and we must not break them... ouch, this is the real pain point. I make everything private or internal now, if I can..
Yeah, this is driving me crazy. But there is a sort of reason for that. At any rate there are benefit to working there. Just got 2 weeks of Christmas holiday for free (didn't use any vacation days), yeeha! And work culture is considerate (of life work balance), at least in Australia!
modified 16-Dec-21 17:55pm.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Just got 2 weeks of Christmas holiday for free (didn't use any vacation days), yeeha!
Nice!
How do you keep yourself busy during those times when you are waiting for a response?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well I am new at this and still working it out....
- work on a totally unrelated ticket, or at least a ticket that touches different files.
- just not push the review, but keep adding to it (and solving other ticket) while begging from oversea reviewer attentions
I don't like it. But I can live with it, at least I learned too. Plus everyone is in the same boat, and nobody is surprised or asking you to go faster, so I learn to unpressure myself!
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Super Lloyd wrote: nobody is surprised or asking you to go faster,
You liar you!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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well... at least there is a good excuse not too!
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If I worked at a place like that, I hope I'd have the sense to quit before going postal.
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It was claimed that during VAX 780 development, the average productivity of the microcoders was to program one microinstruction a day.
This was long before the web, so unfortunately I cannot back up the claim with a URL. I read it on dead trees, way back in my student days, long ago.
(We did have a VAX 780 at my university that was starved to death on RAM, even for the day: VAX VMS could not handle page faults in page tables. One program that was regularly run on the VAX required a huge virtual address space, so out of 1 Mbyte (!) of RAM, more than half was page tables!)
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Norway has had its share of emigrants to the USA, who on visits back to their old country loved to brag about how huge everything is "over there". This one emigrant was talking to a Norwegian farmer who had stayed in the country:
- Over there, the farms are so big that it takes a full day to drive around them in a car!
The Norwegian farmer nodded earnestly:
- Yeah ... We've got some cars like that around here as well ...
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More accurately, it takes a whole day to TEST a three-line code change (it should probably take longer).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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While the chip company is bullish on the possibilities of the metaverse in abstract, Intel raises a key issue with realizing any metaverse ambitions: there’s not nearly enough processing power to go around. Which I'm assuming they'll be happy to provide?
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On Tuesday afternoon a Coinbase "display issue" changed the balances of an untold number of customers' accounts — making many of them billionaires in the process. Congratul-ooops!
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Would be even more amusing if they had all made huge withdrawals from their accounts at the same time. Make coinbase pay for their mistakes (full disclosure I make mistakes all the time, but its always funnier when it happens to someone else).
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The Parker Solar Probe broke through the Sun's atmosphere and touched the "surface" for the first time. Icarus would like a word
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Icarus would like a word
Parker didn't use wax and feathers for its wings...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination. It's always DNS(tm)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic
How else would it know what advertising to send me...
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Better than the cat doing it. And ordering things.
(Credit to Steve Martin.)
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