jfe1234

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   by jfe1234 7y ago

   I'm curious - what kind of organisational issues relating to hiring new developers would be alleviated by having some tests? Are you referring to incoming developers being put off by the perception of a legacy codebase which is horribl
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   by jfe1234 7y ago

   Yeah I guess that is true. I think in my mind 'hard sci-fi' is more of a trait than a sub genre. Actually now I think about I think maybe purist hard sci-fi fans might not be very big on Peter F. Hamilton. Greg Bear would have pro
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   by jfe1234 7y ago

   Seveneves is great as are Snow Crash and Anathem by the same author. Anathem has a lovely epic feel. Tough read though!
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   by jfe1234 7y ago

   The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, and the other two in the trilogy too. Hard, but accessible. I've never read a series so dense with cool and believable ideas that are unlike much I had come across before. The Reality Dysfunction by
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   by jfe1234 8y ago

   What an irritating blog post. I don't disagree with the overall point (have experienced it myself, for sure, at times). "instead walked around DC, sober, talking and enjoying the great weather with my beautiful wife" why does