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by abdulhaq 18y ago
> "you must cover 90% of your code with unit tests" No, TDD doesn't mean that. TDD is where you write the tests _first_. This bestows numerous advantages that post-facto tests don't: 1) You think about the API as required by the person
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
'Success' of course needs to be defined in a context and yes, in general he is talking about financial success, but the specific issue in his post is so-called 'spiritual business'. He talks about 'increasing light'. My point is that for a
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
OK, fair enough. Have you asked them what they think is the best thing to do?
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
The question raised in the article is based on a flawed assumption: that success is measured in material wealth. The successful person is the one who does the most good, irrespective of his bank balance. Therefore the businessman who behave
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
I'm guessing here but it seems this is in India, right? I have worked with a number of Indian developers, e.g. WiPro and Infosys. They are often fairly new developers (< 5 yrs) and very clever. There are some cultural issues that apply
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
OK - thanks for the info.
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What do you recommend, in terms of widgets?
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
If you do it yourself, does it count as a framework? Server: python, postgresql, cherrypy, simplejson Client: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Dojo, AJAX. All the HTML is loaded up front and then AJAX for all the rest. Dojo insulates me from browser
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
I very quickly gave up reading the comments on the guardian web site. Many, even a majority, are insulting and regurgitated opinions by people unopen to changing their mind, they simply want to shout their (often unappetising) opinion at yo
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
Please don't turn hacker news into another reddit... let's stick to _hacking_ related articles.
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
Which direction do you see things going? I personally feel that more effort is being put into eclipse, hence it has a longer term future. A big win for Eclipse is the ubiquity of an easily installed, strong, consistent virtual machine acros
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
I moved from emacs to eclipse, for python development, 3 years ago. Why? The nicely integrated subversion integration (subclipse), the SQLExplorer plugin, and PyDev. I only really use the editing features of pydev, I hardly ever go into deb
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
The big problem is power consumption - do you really want that ~200W power draw, 24hrs a day, burning up the environment? Giving it to someone who needs it for their main PC is the best bet.