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by ammon 12y ago
I was unschooled from 1st grade through high school. Overall, the experience was great for me. I had time to do a bunch of different things (boat building, blacksmithing, metal casting, programming, ice boating, climbing and hiking, firewor
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by ammon 12y ago
Choosing to fight a man with a knife who is trying to rob you is stupid and dangerous, regardless of your training. I'm not sure what this says about the thesis.
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by ammon 13y ago
I'm an erstwhile (amateur) blacksmith, now a programmer. Funny to see the two together. Blacksmithing and programming are both areas where practitioners make their own tools. Compilers and tongs can be bootstrapped.
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by ammon 14y ago
We had a database problem. All settings changes were failing. It's now fixed.
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by ammon 15y ago
Apple does not want beta products in the app store, which makes sense. But I've not seen an outright ban on testing. Testing allows us to make the app better! In any case, we've not been rejected.
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by ammon 15y ago
Glad you like it. We got the testing/config system working in a day. Of course, we've spent time tweaking and adding features since
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by ammon 15y ago
For what it's worth, the payment servers were one of the only parts of our system that did have (manual) tests in place at that time (because it took 24 hours to do a restart). The bug in question was in DB timeout code, and all tests passe