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by johnb 5y ago
Yep - jest.
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by johnb 5y ago
I can see: > Integration with your test framework and programming language any indication which languages/frameworks? I've got a fair sized typescript monorepo with a build/test cycle I want more insight into
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by johnb 6y ago
It does in Australia: https://www.amberelectric.com.au/ (disclaimer: I work there)
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by johnb 6y ago
Tangentially related but in Australia we run a household utility company that operates of that same assumption: https://www.amberelectric.com.au/ Our hypothesis is that market signals combined with the right tools (friendly
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by johnb 7y ago
A few good ones that haven't been mentioned yet: * "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems " https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-system... * "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Wome
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by johnb 7y ago
https://devtomanager.com/ is a good one, especially for those just making (or about to make) the transition.
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by johnb 8y ago
Kasparov had said that all players are worse in blitz, but that Carlsen gets least worst https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1067826806823297029
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by johnb 8y ago
Post author here - logging off to go to bed because it's bedtime down under. Will pop by again in the morning. Thanks for reading and all your comments.
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by johnb 8y ago
I agree and trying to cover that education gap is what I'm trying to achieve with the post (and the product behind it)
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by johnb 8y ago
I definitely overstated here sorry. Found the excerpt I was remembering in my copy of code complete "On a project that uses inspections for design and code, the inspections will take up about 10-15 percent of project budget and will ty
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by johnb 8y ago
Those are all really good points. I have a recollection of seeing a study once that found the best balance point of review time vs dev time but haven't found it again. I recall it being somewhere around 20-30% but now that I can't
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by johnb 8y ago
> For sure, it's important to keep an eye on the code review culture, though. It's easy for code review to degenerate into nitpicking small things like whitespace, naming, coding conventions - these should be handled by tools i
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by johnb 8y ago
There was an old Tom DeMarco article I'm a fan of: http://www.systemsguild.com/pdfs/DeMarcoNov2011.pdf In it he has a pretty interesting insight about late projects. "If a project offered a value of 10 times
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by johnb 8y ago
That's not really true. A better formulation is that there's no way to manage programming productivity cheaply and/or non-intrusively. I agree that the bulk of X vs Y comparisons are emotive and subject to what Alan Kay calls
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by johnb 8y ago
I'm not super across the evidence on pair programming so I'd hate to try and have a definitive answer. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/305j/pair-hcs-2006.... suggests it's pretty good
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by johnb 8y ago
Author here. The post is largely written from a point of personal experience and philosophy but that's the one statement I'm comfortable saying has empirical backing. I link to https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-re
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by johnb 8y ago
Hi - author here. The quality assertions are the most defensible empirically. I wrote the post at the office away from my bookshelf which was the main thing keeping me from including them up front (flicking through my old copy of code compl
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by johnb 10y ago
I can recommend Stay Awhile and Listen by David L. Craddock which tells the story of how the original Diablo was made. It's mostly told in interviews, so while it's not a single developer's story a lot of it is first hand.
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Book Club for Tech Leads(99designs.com)
17 points by johnb 11y ago|0 comments
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Giving Our Beanstalkd Queue a Unix Interface With Go(99designs.com)
18 points by johnb 12y ago|0 comments
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by johnb 12y ago
I think the trademark issue should be OK. My understanding is that you can have overlap in trademarked names when it's in very different markets, but IANAL
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by johnb 13y ago
That is some mean-spirited internetting right there. From the title I was hoping it was a 500 page that git blames the backtrace and tells the user who specifically messed up.
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by johnb 13y ago
I've been using wercker to test and auto deploy a few sideproject go apps and the process has been really smooth. I'm about to switch one over to their new ssh deploy stuff and will write a blog post about it. Using them as a plai
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Django Forms in Rails(jrb.tumblr.com)
5 points by johnb 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: We built a random Arrested Development episode chooser(thiskindofagility.com)
4 points by johnb 13y ago|0 comments
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Git pull --rebase until it hurts(jrb.tumblr.com)
156 points by johnb 13y ago|67 comments
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by johnb 13y ago
This might seem like a strange submission, but I thought it was worth submitting for all the insights into very hardcore "user centred design"
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Mountain Lab: An Interview With Scott McGuire(v-e-n-u-e.com)
1 points by johnb 13y ago|1 comments
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by johnb 14y ago
I don't think that's true. There are plenty of threadsafe gems with C extensions, and plenty of non-threadsafe pure ruby gems that mutate class/class-instance variable willy-nilly.
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by johnb 14y ago
The whole site? The current iteration is around a year old, things were pretty solidly overhauled when we got our first seed funding. The graph specifically? Was a Glen (founding dev) & Charlie (designer) working for a few days straight

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