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> HN? Religion. Weight lifting? Religion. Dental hygiene? Religion. Voting? Religion. Functional Programming? Religion. Punk? Religion. Well dental hygiene is
by pooper 4y ago
> HN? Religion. Weight lifting? Religion. Dental hygiene? Religion. Voting? Religion. Functional Programming? Religion. Punk? Religion.
Well dental hygiene is definitely not a religion. I don't even floss (use a water pik now but flossing back teeth is difficult, parents never taught me to floss when I was a child). Leaving this aside, I have also noticed people call test-driven development / behavior driven development religions here. Are they using hyperboles?
- einpoklum 4y agoDo you even floss? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift
- agentwiggles 4y agoHeh, my first job was a big TDD shop and while I learned many valuable skill - and even still write my tests first at times - I definitely encountered people who were religiously dogmatic about TDD and pairing. Both of those are useful tools, but doing them 100% of the time is challenging. For me, as a brand new dev, the attitude of "you must always write a test before you write code" was stifling and made it harder to learn things at times. To quote our noble caveman patron saint, "how grug test what grug not understand domain yet?!"