james_morton

Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company? on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:41AM (#17354803)

More likely the hacks are there because requirements changed and the software wasn't initially built to be flexible enough to support change.

A rewrite will solve it in the short term - until requirements change again.

However, I would much rather apply the new 'hacks' onto the rewritten 10 line function than figure out the original 200 line behemoth.

Ask HN: Why aren't system libraries/packages distributed using torrents?

Posted by james_morton on Monday August 22, 2016 @07:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

This looks like an ideal scenario for torrents, everyone has a copy of packages on the server so seeding will be through the roof, usually on the same network.No more breaking the world because PyPi/NPM/apt mirror is down.One tool could support every type of package repository, and then the main mirror will be 'constant' seeds that simply proxy the current locations...

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Re:Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014) on Sunday August 14, 2016 @03:52AM (#12284679)

PDF was made for printing, not displaying. As someone who has been in the printing business for a long time, PDF was a god send, no more worrying about missing fonts, no more page margin differences, no more driver discrepancies.

What you see is what you get, wherever you open it, wherever you print it, that is huge.

Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:06PM (#12271955)

Once cyber crime + fraud becomes more commonplace I envision security programmers replacing lawyers.