mordrax

We've recently hit 100k loc for our main frontend written all in Elm. The journey from inception 2.5 yrs ago has been amazing and now we're in full production mode, reaping the rewards of purity and the type system.

The company now has 4 production projects with Elm as the sole frontend tech.

I'd like to point out two things here:

1. There are common library functions that we put in single files. These are imported by a lot of other files. The fact that these incur a large recompile cost is unfortunate and I think it doesn't have to be this way if dependencies were calculated at a more granular level.

2. The far larger implication to compile time becoming exponential is coupling of concerns. This is solely in the developer's responsibility. For a type system that guarantees correctness of code, there is no way around the fact that all affected modules must recompile. eg, if a fundamental law of physics were to change, the whole universe would have to recompute.

So I think for a 'substantial group of developers', the focus should be on helping people to recognise what is coupling and how to design de-coupled systems.

The comment about 16k -> 45k LoC was to give an idea of how much we had added to the product over the last 10 months.

Is the absence of my mouth being still, is the presence of my mouth not being still, is the presence of my mouth moving.

I think you meant to say, the absence of my mouth moving.

I don't want to leave the impression that this company with a private owner is a bad company. The employer did look out for me when I had difficult family issues and at one point, being way over-burdened with the workload, I told him to either fire me and get a support person at half my salary or give me more resources.

Being laid off there was quite good for me. I felt indebted to keep the product afloat but it was burning me out constantly so after I left, I got a higher paid, much more reasonable hours job with peers that also have passion for coding.

But I still remembered him looking out for me so I want to do the right thing and help him get some closure on this business. To that end, I think getting a IP lawyer to put any of my worries to rest at a small expense to him or the purchasing company is the most reasonable option as someone else had said below.

But it's the first time I'm asked to sign one of these things and some of the things I'd be agreeing to doesn't even sound like it's in english. I don't want to inadvertently sign over any side project I was working on in that time or IP for the industry I was working in or even future IP as some of it seems to be worded without time constraints. But take all that with a grain of salt, no legal background.

The sale of the business is predicated on all former employees signing the deed.

I try to do this with all intense emotions be it overwhelming sadness, fury, despair. Feels better than holding back or forcing it out.

This is also capitalism is it not?

I think the previous guy was trying to say that there is no morality in capitalism and therefore words such as extreme and pure do not apply. Capitalism is only concerned with money, nothing else.

If you truly enjoy what you do, the value you receive from that shouldn't just be measured in dollar terms.

I'm passionate about what I do and I do it during work, after hours and on the weekend. But during work, I get paid a sensible salary to support my family. At home, I get to explore my interests.

Passion is fuel, wisdom is direction. Don't confuse the two.

I think that the more influence and wealth you wield, the better your chances are of 'fixing' a system and I think what they are trying to do is more commendable than what the majority of us do with our spare time and cash.

I bought this and played it for about an hour to completion. For my hour, I'd have made them $0.12. Instead, I paid $4.64.

So for them to get to the same profit using this model, they'd have to attract $4.62/$0.12 = 38 times more users. i.e instead of having 1000+ downloads, they'd need to be in the 38k+ downloads range and for everyone to have played it to completion.

I see two problems for this particular game. 1. Fighting fantasy based games are a niche market so is there going to be a large enough user base to support this? 2. I'd say that the length of a typical gamebook shouldn't be more than 1-2 hours as it will get very complex. So they're kind of capped re per player usage.

Since it's a niche market, I don't imagine there would be hundreds of thousands of people trying this out for 5 minutes each.

I'm feeling a bit sad that I'm overjoyed to hear that this category exists.

Paid, Free, Actually free

I like how they explain up-front that they pay the authors instead of perhaps another hidden payment model within 'Actually free' that ends up charging users.

On a more serious note, sadly the majority of Chinese/Asian parents i know would take the first sentence seriously.

I have to either strongly disagree with the outcome of this research or disagree with the definition of happiness used here. If you were to ask parents (myself included), if having children makes you happier in life, I think you would get a resounding yes it does! Having kids is stressful at times, and you can be constantly tired and stretched to your limits but the heights of joy one experiences as a parent has no bounds. I'd hate to think that the majority of parents think of child rearing as some sort of meaningful suffering...

So the author's obviously never heard of sanity checking, in fact that's the second thing that I always do once I confirm a solution is to confirm it's not a fallacy.

Having said that, my solutions were -10 -20 -40 -10 -8 -4 1024 1026 1030

and I said it was +2, +4 and got it wrong!

I think this is a good question that everyone at some stage of their life will need to ask to grow beyond what society and peers demands of you, but don't make this out to be the silver bullet like I did because I'm still on that path and I have no idea if I'm getting any closer to an answer... damn! hehe

Unless you're saying that he took the loss personally and there is only one part which alludes to it, where he was 'humiliated' by the hotel staff asking him to vacate the room that was reserved for him as a former high roller.

I'm not saying everything's unicorns and fairies but I didn't get the motivation to cause actual harm and therefore the plan felt wasteful to me to have a real bomb. And why would he say that if 'there was a double cross, I'll come back at a later date to do it again'. That just totally ignores what he said at the beginning of the letter about not giving instructions of there was any deviations to the plan and also contradicted to the bomb being real and destined to go off anyway with a unstoppable 3rd timer.

But that's 15 minutes of my life I won't get back, and alot more if I was to start whitelisting sites (which at this rate, would be every site I visit) and wearing a tin foil on my head, just saying... (<-- light hearted joke for the too religious :)