hdi

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by hdi 8y ago
Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.” What a statement! This is why I dislike Slack as a company and as much as I hate Teams (have to use it at work), I have no problem with
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by hdi 8y ago
Somewhat interesting but calling an old idea something catchy isn't really revolutionary. The article makes a lot of assumptions like "In practice, most agree as most projects set the lower bound for coverage to around 80%".
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by hdi 9y ago
I completely agree and I think that if you take care of the people they will take care of each other (team). So when you've built a well oiled team that trusts each other the company benefits as well as they will be more productive and
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by hdi 9y ago
I've been wondering about that for a while. So far, I've not been able to find any examples of test architecture that follows those principles online or in my day job. I've also been too lazy to do a side project and explore
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Ask HN: How did you get involved in open source?
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by hdi 9y ago
I've seen this happen in a previous job. It literally made all the top performers in the team leave.
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by hdi 9y ago
Get off your high horse for few minutes. High quality restaurants? Around Edinburgh the 'highest quality' restaurant offered is Pizza Express.
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by hdi 9y ago
The problem I've seen come out of test after is complete implementations with 0 tests. People will just forget to do it! Especially if working on few different areas of the code at the same time. And it happens often enough for it to b
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by hdi 9y ago
> the developer community has largely moved on How so? Moved on to what?
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by hdi 9y ago
I've used Jira for about two and a half years and although it wasn't that bad for us, I can see how it might not be a good fit for every team. Anyway, we ended up using a physical board, which was reflected in Jira for remote team
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by hdi 9y ago
That's been my experience as well. But it didn't happen because I was on the lookout for a fat paycheck. It happened because the companies I worked at the time couldn't provide the stimulation, technical capabilities, working
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by hdi 9y ago
How did you negotiate that with your employer, and also are you doing contract/constancy work where an arrangement like that is slightly more realistic?
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by hdi 9y ago
Got rid of it about 6-7 years ago, mainly due to all the annoying people posting photos of their food and pointless updates and check-ins. Who needs that.. I don't miss it one bit nor do I plan on using it ever again.
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by hdi 9y ago
I like the general assumption that TDD failed. Failed at what exactly? Who would think 1 methodology would give them all they need to be a great software engineer? If TDD supposedly failed, can we hear the process that succeeded at what TDD
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by hdi 9y ago
> Never got into it and always thought it is a complete waste of time. I advocate to write tests only for critical algorithmic calculations and nothing else. What great advice! While we're at it let's advocate surgeons didn&#x2