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roonyhon Story points are pointless, measure queues

ah, we are not using it as a measure of teams performance, like throughput though. Its just used to predict what the team can deliver in a sprint or a quarter etc and make business decisions based on that.

roonyhon Story points are pointless, measure queues

Same way that throughput and latency is different. You can use it to predict what the team can deliver in a quarter for example. But difficult to give ETAs to individual stakeholders.

roonyhon Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working'

They need to use an input device like a mouse to disable bluetooth. Which they are about to not be able to use. But when they are seeing the message they are still using it.

roonyhon Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)

> available for downloading from Netscape's web site.

There were no hyperlinks?

roonyhon Bluesky Frustrations

They have self authenticating data structures no? Someone should be able to write a program that can verify any post.

roonyhon Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

Why the set of developers is considered centralised? I can write an implementation according to the specification and have no relationship with developers of another implementation.

roonyhon Incident: Air Asia A320 near Kuching on Feb 10th 2022, snake on the plane

This is why I check HN every morning. Made my weekend.

roonyhon Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

What exactly is multitasking? I am a software developer. I listen to music while I work. Is that multitasking? If I pick up a different issue to work on while I wait for code review on another, is that multitasking?

roonyhon Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

http://vanilla-js.com/ Probably not the one you are referring to; but made in same spirit.

roonyhon Delivery Hero Confirms Foodora Data Breach, over 700k Accounts Leaked

It's the data that's from 2016.

roonyhon A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`

package-locks lock down exact versions. Otherwise there's no point to them.

roonyhon Ballerina, a language with structural type system

There actually is a built in tool to generate a sequence diagram. The language is designed with the idea that it should be possible to generate such a diagram for every program. The tool to generate diagram is currently part of the vscode extension for ballerina. It's documented here. https://v1-0.ballerina.io/learn/tools-ides/vscode-plugin/gra...

roonyhon Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?

>The FTC required TikTok to “destroy” the “personal information” of any account belonging to someone currently 13 or under...

If they are required to "destroy" the data, how can they restore it after proving age using a government ID?

roonyhon Show HN: Play peg solitaire in browser

It should be working now. Give it another try when you can. Thanks again!

roonyhon Show HN: Play peg solitaire in browser

Ah I am sorry. You are right. Stupid me, only tested in chrome. Will try to figure it out. Thanks.