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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
P.S. I'm from Yorkshire so I'm used to accents being mocked.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I was more saying that one particular example (JRM) sounds stupid. I don't think this is a contentious issue. However, RP can sound a bit silly with some pronunciations. The same is true with any accent.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
No. We really don't. People who speak Received Pronunciation (RP) may speak more in this way (look up Jacob Rees-Mogg if you really want to see how stupid it sounds) but they are a small minority of the British people.
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It’s No Longer about How You Write Code but How You Operate It(thenewstack.io)
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
How so? All you're doing is communicating with the fake website owners. At worst it gives them an email address. This could be a temp account set up just for this purpose though.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I guess the first thing would be to try and contact them. They've anonymised their WHOIS info but it looks like there's a unique email associated with the domain: 53fdcf64883c49cb959ebaab98cea57e.protect@withheldforprivacy.com Try
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
That sounds similar to the Screenplay pattern [1] This has the concept of actors, abilities, interactions, questions, and tasks. This allows good separation of concerns as well as much more user-focused tests. [1] https://serenit
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Congratulations! I think this is actually the first time I've seen a use for Cucumber. Obviously, it would have been better if you didn't have to do this but I've spent enough time as a consultant to know when to just work ar
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I'm a big fan of the Gherkin syntax and the output of my Example Mapping sessions is generally a big pile of them. Automated tests are then written based on these but not "using" these. By not "using" the Gherkin sc
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I don't agree with PayPal's decision here but I'm failing to see how it's as broad as people seem to be making it. The TOS specifically say that you may not use PayPal for promotion of hate etc. So you might not be able
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Unfortunately, I'd need a few more fingers. Not too many though which makes that argument for Cucumber fairly moot. I did work somewhere where each team had 2 testers. One to write the cucumber and one to write the glue code for it. It
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist. As you say, it just introduces unnecessary complexity for no reason. If you can't code, you shouldn't be writing automated tests. Most of the "benefits" of Cucumb
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Maybe not, but the larger it is the harder it is to change. There are pros/cons to both sides.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Yes, this applies almost equally well to libraries as well. With the slight exception that you are not just bringing the library into your code but all of its dependencies as well. This makes it _slightly_ harder to wholesale change a libra
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
That sounds similar to redundancy in the UK but much more generous. It always possible to get rid of either an employee or a role. The problem comes when you're getting rid of a whole department or say 10% of your employees. There are
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Write small, well tested services in the easiest to use framework you can find. If the service becomes hard to maintain then replace it. This should be a simple job guided by the tests.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Mostly energy usage. A raspi is going to use a lot less power than most crappy old computers and a hell of a lot less than your beefy desktop.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Cloudflare is a company that makes the tool. We're not shouting at the wrench, we are shouting at the maker of the wrench.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
"...laptops that are rechargeable via a wired cable, operating with a power delivery of up to 100 Watts, will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C port" From: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
The last thing I bought from IKEA had plastic screws. To be fair, I've not had any problems with them but I as a bit taken aback to see them.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
I appreciate your position but I could not disagree with you more. React and other frameworks allow for components to be unit tested very easily, with good control over the inputs. This gives confidence in each component which can then be a
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
This is why tests should be seen as an executable specification rather than simply a series of checks. Test_OnePlusOneEqualsTwo() is not as useful as Test_CanAddTwoNumbersTogether() Test for behaviour, not implementation.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Helpful
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
As a parent to two small children, I'm not sure adding a third would increase my happiness.
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
Have you considered that by not allowing that product to be sold you are indirectly responsible for any extra deaths caused by human drivers?
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
The main reason they fail is that they only get seen by people who are not pirating. People who get their media illegally do not see these messages. It's like if Amazon only showed me adverts for things I've already bought...oh, w
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by abracadabra_ 4y ago
So a Platform Engineer, then. DevOps is not a role, it's not tools. It's a culture. Once the term is used outside of that, it has become useless.