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The most amazing part of this to me is that it's possible to code for a decade get through a CS degree and be a research assistant without testing or even using
by xiaoma 12y ago
The most amazing part of this to me is that it's possible to code for a decade get through a CS degree and be a research assistant without testing or even using source control! I'd probably have gone insane trying to debug under those circumstances.
- krapp 12y agoI've worked at places where "version control" amounted to telling everyone what file you were about to open in Filezilla. On the live server. Trufax. It's a jungle out there.
- patio11 12y agoWelcome to academia. Though, worth noting, source control is on the Joel Test specifically because at least some engineers needed outside ammo to bludgeon their employers into the 20th century. It was very much NOT the case in ~2000 that you could just assume any professional engineering team would be using source control.
- glimcat 12y agoI constantly pushed the use of source control when I was a TA for CS juniors & seniors. Of the low-three-digit number of students I interacted with, approximately two of them listened. Many of these had already had internships at e.g. Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon...