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by jcrben 10y ago
I commonly hear this, and yet it is so wrong. I don't understand how this idea that unit tests significantly protect against regressions has spread so far. Classic texts such as "Growing Object-oriented software with Tests" n
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Half of the IDE is tips called inspections. It's like having a machine pair program with you. This will get you unstuck faster and teach you good habits.
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Probably speaking from general experience with Google customer support, which is generally opaque. The few times I have corresponded with Google customer support it's been bad.
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Great service, but you might be encouraging more annoying newsletters. Before, they just lost out an audience who wouldn't stand for annoying automated email ;)
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Someone in my 3-month cohort at Hackreactor went to Google. There are a number of Hackreactor grads at Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.
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At good bootcamps, most people are already extremely self-taught. I had basically mastered jQuery, Python, and SQL when I went to a bootcamp (Hackreactor) to get better with algorithms and the latest frameworks. It's really about how m
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IMHO man is one of the worst things in Unix. Generally I find that tldr https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr or bro http://bropages.org/ are far more efficient. Speaking of... https://github.c
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They'll settle into ordinary earnings multiples. Sofware companies typically have much higher revenue multiples because they have much higher gross margins. In this case, the article is talking more about brick & mortar startups.
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If you're spending hundreds of hours using a piece of software, paying about the price of a beer or fancy coffee once a month doesn't seem unreasonable.
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Most applications branch based upon their state. You can't just statically analyze them without knowing that state. OK, so you can add print statements to get a small peek into the state. But if you have a moderately complex applicatio
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by jcrben 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying, but if you're asking about how an at-will harasser could win a wrongful termination case, it's worth noting that "at-will" does not actually mean you can "fire whenever for
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Saying that the term was never used isn't really refuting the point. It doesn't matter whether you coded back in those days. Anyone who looks at (or used) the software being produced back then can see that continuous software deli
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by jcrben 11y ago
That really depends on how much you can put into your day job. If you're at a small firm and you have equity, it may be more worthwhile and interesting to focus on professional work, dealing with problems at a scale and complexity beyo
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by jcrben 11y ago
Well, you need a basic understanding of equity markets too, and it seems that most who know one do not know the other. At least, they aren't writing about it. Divestment of evil companies drives down their valuations; consequently, tho
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by jcrben 11y ago
You left out the context: > still code even in front of a keynote audience I think he's mainly saying that coding in front of an audience exposes you to errors which shows that you are human.
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> When you start a program in a debugger like gdb, it does a variation of the usual fork()–exec() trick It would be helpful if there was a link explaining the 'usual' fork()–exec() trick.
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This was/is actually an extremely controversial project. The corporation (basically the Executive Director) pursued the grant and the idea without soliciting input or really disclosing it to the community of editors, and eventually one
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I'm not saying don't unit test or that E22 tests don't have disadvantages, but... end-to-end tests are not frontend tests, so they will still catch problems regardless of whether the frontend changes. Unless you are changing
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You're talking about a service which is theoretically used every day to help you run your life, and you think $40/year is expensive? In my experience, even my poorer friends routinely spend that at a bar or a restaurant. I've
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by jcrben 11y ago
I'm playing with facilethings.com and zendone.com. Previously tried doit.im. But mostly I just work off of Gmail and use Evernote for reference material.
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by jcrben 11y ago
That's pretty odd and concerning. If you email me at ben@bencreasy.com I will look into it, because I've never seen an editor get blocked for something like that - unless you don't know the right people or process to ask for
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Does Wikipedia "need" the money? Does any software need any money beyond the cost of servers? If Wikipedia is to remain relevant, it needs money. But everyone has different priorities, and admittedly not everyone can afford to d
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I pay for pocketsmith.com - not perfect, but decently polished and much more responsive to their users.
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"Don’t ever move into an apartment, TIC, condo, or house that has been cleared by an eviction." This is impossible in practice. But more importantly, it is one of those hopelessly naive idealistic rules. Apartments will be rented