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by pdimitar 2y ago
Help and support others who actually have a vision. If I didn't have to think about money I'd work on inventing Skynet. No, this is not a joke. I'm dead-serious.
902.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Some more details that programmers can inspect would be very useful.
903.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Well your comment just emphasizes how overdue semantic diffing is, really.
904.
by pdimitar 2y ago
How did that saga end?
905.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Guilty as charged, I mix them both freely; I use fakes but also assert that a function has (not) been called [N times]. The latter is mostly testing implementation but there are rare cases when it's too much work to mock a quality 3rd
906.
by pdimitar 2y ago
> Also keep your lynch pin invariants in the database and not in your code. I do both. That is how you protect against stressed devs at 2:00 AM trying to insert crap in the production database and how you also make good apps that don&#
907.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I lost the link to one Golang library that I liked very much but here's the link to Elixir's Ecto: https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_sql/Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.html (not the perfect one, sorry, but can't be bot
908.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Glad to help! On a philosophical / meta level it's all quite simple: do your damnedest for the computer to do as much of your work for you as possible, really. Nothing much to it. Strict technologies slap you hard when you inevita
909.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Well, if you found a productive workflow then who am I to judge, right? However, if I was hired into your team tomorrow you'll have to fiercely fight with me over this: > And sure, we could probably refactor it to use transactions
910.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Exactly what I do. Having a local `docker-compose.yml` that helps bring up a dev and test environments is one of my first action items when hired. Paid huge dividends, many times.
911.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Completely agreed, that's why I have advocated for periodically (once a month) revisiting the test suites with them by doing re-captures of real data. There are frameworks that help with this. Is it a chore? Absolutely. But peace of mi
912.
by pdimitar 2y ago
PostgreSQL stops many data bugs at the door due to being so strict -- something many programmers start rediscovering is a good thing by choosing stricter programming languages with time. I love SQLite to bits but the test harness I have to
913.
by pdimitar 2y ago
OK, but is your production DB also SQLite? If not, I would not. I found the differences between it and PostgreSQL too big and was getting too many false positives. Also code complexity on a few levels of recursion of transactions is an easy
914.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I don't know what kind of magic fairy dust Django is but I've found the differences between SQLite and PostgreSQL too big to be worth it, in at least 3 other programming languages that are not Python. Sounded good at first but we
915.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Why a separate DB for each test? Just have only one DB and each test opens a transaction and then rolls it back when it's done. That way you also achieve isolation of tests so they don't interfere with each other.
916.
by pdimitar 2y ago
On my machine -- which is quite middle range at this point, not even high end -- I get by just fine up to 3000 tests, with Elixir at least. When I was at that contract the ~3200 tests ran in something like 40 seconds. What kinds of troubles
917.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I thought this was common knowledge and that it became even easier after Docker became a thing? Mocks are wishful thinking incarnate most of the time, though here and there they are absolutely needed (like 3rd party APIs without sandbox env
918.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Cool, good to know, thanks for bringing it to light. Still not a fan but it's nice that it has the facilities.
919.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Ohhhh I see, thanks for clarifying! Brain fart. Indeed, I'd love to use your stuff.
920.
by pdimitar 2y ago
No transparent parallelism? And no, I don't mean threads. Underrated? Eh... it does stuff better than others but that doesn't mean much. We really don't learn.
921.
by pdimitar 2y ago
I still suffer, to this day. Gets more and more difficult as you age. Hopefully I wisened up and I think I started doing the right steps but it's like blowing against the wind; ultimately you'll succeed but... yeah, nevermind. Don
922.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Because you'd be broke and freezing outside. See, you're privileged as hell if this doesn't even cross your mind.
923.
by pdimitar 2y ago
Am I missing something or is it truly infinite?
924.
by pdimitar 2y ago
It might be to their detriment, but I suffered much more than I could detect that they suffered so I am keeping a reserved judgement on that one. But even if you are 100% correct (a real possibility) then it still doesn't matter much;
925.
by pdimitar 2y ago
And you addressed exactly zero existential concerns. Assume I had no choice of the programming jobs I was taking in the last years. Now try to fit your framework of mind in it. Present me the result as a textual reply here? Hint: what I fel
926.
by pdimitar 2y ago
If I was ever given a choice then I'd tell you. And I have done "resolving complex issues beyond the FAQ of a framework" many, MANY times. Almost as if country and environment have anything to do with it, more than merit.
927.
by pdimitar 2y ago
You are forgetting these teeny tiny teensy little things called "return of investment" and the ratio of energy expended vs. the results achieved.
928.
by pdimitar 2y ago
You hiring for positions where I can have fun programming?
929.
by pdimitar 2y ago
> I think given you've been mugged by reality in commercial work to the point of tiredness, your not finding it to make sense at all is completely understandable, though. OK, I want a job where I have fun and I am programming. Sta
930.
by pdimitar 2y ago
OK. Who pays for you having fun? How is your "but I am having fun optimizing this" help your boss pay the bills after a deadline is getting closer? People like you baffle me to no end and make me feel I've lived in a parallel

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