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by mbillie1 12y ago
> TDD may not work well for Rails applications is all I've been able to glean from his posts. And even this is not the case - the Ruby/Rails community is heavily involved with TDD/testing frameworks/etc, because it is
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> I have felt the wrath of their judgment, to the point that I hate "admitting" that I don't believe in TDD I'm not sure if you're exaggerating a little, but I think that having colleagues whose wrath makes you
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> Prove DHH wrong with working code, not blog posts or books or conference talks. I completely agree; I will only say that it actually is quite easy to add service layers and fast tests to Rails applications - you just don't stick e
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I've worked for one of the biggest agile consultancies around, and while most of the developers write unit tests, I never met anyone who started frothing at the mouth if we wrote code before tests. I just don't buy the pervasivene
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Ah, missed that. Well, fair points then :)
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It's possible that, since this was written on FB and not Kent's blog ( http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/ ), that this wasn't intended for as public an audience as HN and was not an attempt to &qu
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DHH largely creates a straw man: the fanatical, religious TDD devotee who blindly worships at the Altar of Unit Tests. For an enormous majority of the wider development community (who do no testing whatsoever outside of click-the-thing-and-
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by mbillie1 13y ago
This is exciting. I've used Go-CI (that's what I'm calling it) before and it's a very cool product for pipelining. Kudos to TW for open-sourcing it. Time to get the plugins rolling!
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> in over abundance can lead to inflexibility and debt when your system needs to change. I hear this argument a lot, and I think it is absolutely incorrect. If tests are hindering your system then you're just doing it wrong. It&#x27
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Maybe not by definition, but it's almost irrelevant because a not anonymous source is so much easier to verify / disprove. Sure, in theory an anonymous source could be 100% accurate, but since they are very tricky to back up, th
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They have one of the funniest (irrelevant but still humorous) pages about Java as well: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/java
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This is a cogent point. HR may be your point of contact for your salary negotiation, but they are not the decision maker or barrier. Ask for more money and they will ask someone else for more money on your behalf. HR is almost never the ene
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This is particularly evident during presidential election season, when the mainstream political news will do things like show a real-time opinion poll accompanying speeches or debates. The article hits the nail on the head at the end: thi
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This seems questionably close to "exploit the homeless by monetizing them" to me.
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HackerNew (apologies for my inability to present this link elegantly) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd... allows folding and dynamic loading, similar to RES. It also increases the
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> I also like the way Reddit notifies you of replies. This is one thing I wish HN did. This is a good post, and I care far more about the replies I get here (when I have generally at least tried to provide thoughtful input) than the ones
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I think HN is generally inhabited by intelligent but highly opinionated people. Sometimes an opinionated discussion can degenerate into a frivolous argument even between well-meaning parties. It's helpful to have input from someone who
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> The first is posting feedback in the threads about what's good and bad for HN comments. Right now, dang is the only one doing this, but other moderators may in the future. I've seen dang do this and I think it's actually
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Just gave it a shot from my Samsung GS3 to my 15" Retina MBP. The setup on the client computer is a bit annoying, but once it's up, it's very straightforward. I did notice that the resolution was downgraded on the MBP and I h
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> neither being offensive nor being a generalization needs to have a bearing on truth value. Of course, but neither being offensive nor being a generalization (especially of that magnitude) belongs in a mature discussion, either. > Al
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I disagree with absurd stereotypes such as "men in general are treated like shit" and "most women are emotionally blackmailing their families".
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Well, in answer to 1., often suicide is attempted at times of extreme emotional volatility - in other words, when it's easy to make a mistake. Additionally, suicide is almost always linked to depression, which manifests itself in a who
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I think it would be virtually impossible to prevent suicide, not to mention various things perhaps not treated as suicide but which are self-caused deaths (repeatedly engaging in very-very-high-risk activity, for
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This post consists of 1) an undocumented / unproven assertion, 2) a laughable generalization, and 3) an offensive generalization.
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Oh, I thought that was only for selected threads.
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I've found myself spending a lot more time here as well. Was there any code/policy change with the HN site? Or is this new moderators jumping in and helping out a lot? Either way, I agree that it is excellent.
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Very cool. I personally (as a developer without a CS background) find these sorts of posts wonderfully interesting, even if this kernel, as pointed out in this thread, lacks a lot of what a normal kernel does. I'd love to see one of th
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by mbillie1 13y ago
That was fascinating, thank you for sharing it. I'm always curious when a business justifies its existence or protection by appealing to the fact that it employs people - "we have families depending on us!" Every business emp
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It would be difficult to find a less sympathetic cast of characters than car salesmen from New Jersey, but I think the issue at stake is that the legislation in question was initially intended to protect new businesses in an established fie
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> But the problem is that a company can bankrupt an individual with just the legal fees involved in the discovery process and depositions alone, even if it doesn't go to trial. This is the damning thing. It looks like the company is

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