Mark Eichin

"don't "we" generally know by now that having the default be un-armored is as error-prone as not having armoring at all? One of the things I like about direct use of subprocess with arrays is that it's *entirely* unambiguous what's going on, and if you want globbing or substitution you have to make an effort to get it..." - Mark Eichin

"If it really *never* manifests to the user, why are you even doing the release? (Or perhaps *deleting* the code instead of fixing it :-) For the examples, maybe it's "fix potential but never observed/reported crash" or "remove internal limits to prepare for future expansion". In both cases it gets across that * you care about cleanliness and stability * you're not just putting out a release with a more obnoxious ad-engine Of course what would *really* help is for the market to have two chunks of info, one for new users and one for updating users - have both available, but if I'm already running the app, *just* show me the updates, or at least show them first, since I already know what it *does*..." - Mark Eichin

"I was surprised the first time I saw that on an app. It would seem that half the point (only half) of *having* an easy commenting path is for developer feedback (the other half is for informing other customers, or at least expressing credibly that someone else has using it at all.) Is google making any effort to *fix* that problem?" - Mark Eichin

"I've got a 1T spinning disk and an 80G "mSATA" SSD in my ThinkPad X220 Tablet. Currently running with an external journal on the SSD, and frankly didn't notice any real user-visible improvement (after all, I've *also* got 8G of RAM.) Note that I haven't benchmarked it (since perceived day-to-day speed is what I actually care about) and boot speed is irrelevant (since my average uptime is well over a month.) Browser startup speed likewise. Making kphotoalbum faster, *that* would interest me..." - Mark Eichin

"I just picked up [MightyText](http://mightytext.net/) from another r/android thread, which lets chrome talk to your phone and send "real" texts. (As for saving them - I still use [smsbackup](https://market.android.com/details...) from my G1 days...) The *interesting* thing about Google Voice is the voicemail transcription. (Unfortunately, it's *merely* interesting, as opposed to actually good enough to use...)" - Mark Eichin

"I'd go beyond *ideally*: ["If you don't have coverage, you're not refactoring, you're just changing shit."](http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com/2009...) See also [Michael Feathers'](http://www.amazon.com/Working...) efforts to **define** "legacy code" as code that doesn't have enough test coverage to change with confidence..." - Mark Eichin

"FYI there's a [CS373 reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/cs373/) for the Udacity Robotic Cars course." - Mark Eichin