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lofaszvanitttoday at 7:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

1000 loc of script, why even leave it there for the night? were there rocket trajectory calculations??? I don't think so. should be ready in 5 mins tops. why people make their own lives harder?

You should have some basic context file about software practices you prefer, otherwise it gets bloated.


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zzleepertoday at 7:43 PM

I just went to bed and left it running; was expecting maybe 20 minutes :)

And I did gave the program a bunch of code guides -- this [1] for instance -- which included quotes like "Prefer straightforward code over clever code." but somehow that didn't matter.

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/overengineered-rand-mcnally...

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moralestapiatoday at 7:40 PM

>were there rocket trajectory calculations???

Code-wise, they're simpler than you might think, hehe.