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by kmclean 6y ago
This is nice, thanks for taking the time to explain and write it all out. I like UI testing because I dislike maintaining mocks and stubs all over the place (and haven't found a way to write lower-level tests that don't rely on th
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by kmclean 6y ago
This sounds pretty similar to my experience with UI testing. What kinds of tests do you write instead? And how have they worked out for your team?
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by kmclean 6y ago
> ... still continue to tell them the solutions they are supposed to deliver – nearly always in the form of a roadmap of features and projects with expected release dates. This has always been my experience with OKRs. They were implement
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by kmclean 6y ago
This is totally my experience with OKRs as well. At my last company they were a feeble attempt by micromanagers to manage a bunch of teams into being self-managing. But at the end of the day they were giving us solutions not problems to sol
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by kmclean 6y ago
Interesting, I hadn't thought about it that way. I always prefer a month or two trial run before I commit to joining a company for the long term. I just can't tell enough in a few hours of interviewing whether I'll enjoy work
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by kmclean 6y ago
What are people doing as alternatives to these kinds of interviews? The research is quite clear that technical interviews are worse than useless (literally -- they will select for the wrong traits in your candidate pool), yet they still see
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by kmclean 6y ago
> I know that reporting errors can be hard, and I'm grateful for anyone who does. I want to show appreciation for error reports by trying to do as much as possible with the information provided before asking for more details. This m
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by kmclean 6y ago
You can have residency requirements. In Canada you have to be present in most provinces for half the year and live there for a certain amount of time before you get free health care.
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by kmclean 6y ago
> It’s part of the structural inequality in our society, where we’re building businesses that are optimized for their financial return rather than their return to society. Isn't this the whole problem? If people cared about society
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by kmclean 6y ago
I've had a very similar experience. I'm surprised at how little so many managers and investors understand AI. They talk about it like it's some sort of panacea that will make a company automatically grow 10x. Then you ask the
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by kmclean 6y ago
> Instead, they are usually focused on making sure the team is building what their boss thinks should be built. This rings so true. I vowed to never again work with companies with non technical leadership for this reason. My career so fa
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by kmclean 6y ago
This feels so true! I had a similar experience.. spent 3 years working for big US companies, completely focused on whatever trend would impress investors the most with no one giving any thought to what might actually be _useful_ for people
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by kmclean 6y ago
Yeah you're probably right. It's a bit depressing learning about the way those who actually make a business worth anything get treated, though.
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by kmclean 6y ago
This seems really shady. It seems to imply it's legal for companies to restrict what you do after you don't work for them anymore? Any historians around? How did the US get to a place where employers have near total control of the
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by kmclean 6y ago
> And here’s the brutal question: what good are estimates if they hardly ever align with reality? You could have spent that time on building software. No one has ever been able to answer this question for me. In my experience the accurac
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by kmclean 6y ago
Just to be fair, I don't think many practiononers of REPL-driven design would consider it a replacement for tests. It's an alternative workflow to TDD, yes, but the idea is that you still write comprehensive tests, they're ju
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by kmclean 6y ago
That sounds really appealing. I really love the sales pitch for serverless stuff. I think I've probably just been exposed to a lot of really advanced ways of setting it up for a big project. It seems complex.
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by kmclean 6y ago
That looks really complicated to me. What's the advantage of setting up a system like that over a typical server, i.e. with most of that stuff handled by one server, writing code to coordinate between a few external things (like maybe
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by kmclean 6y ago
Mostly waste time browsing HN, reddit, and the various places those lead.
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Ask HN: How do you use tags and categories?
6 points by kmclean 6y ago|1 comments
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by kmclean 6y ago
Have you considered lisp dialects? I've been working with Clojure/Clojurescript for a while and it addresses most of those concerns. It's been a real pleasure to work with. - There are lots of high quality libraries, but you
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by kmclean 6y ago
Are these separate containers (like Firefox containers) or just some UI to visually group certain tabs?
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Enum vs. ActiveRecord any?(medium.com)
2 points by kmclean 10y ago|0 comments