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by scottschulthess 9y ago
I usually think people who don't have Facebook are cooler than me
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by scottschulthess 9y ago
IME it's all about keeping in touch with people that you can't physically because they've moved away.
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by scottschulthess 9y ago
Only mock things that would be difficult to setup in a test, is my approach. Then also set up some other ci jobs for the difficult stuff when we have time.
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by scottschulthess 9y ago
Not writing tests is a great way to ensure future developers won't refactor your code
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by scottschulthess 9y ago
So you're saying test coverage is a negative? It's not an either or.
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by scottschulthess 9y ago
So the worst of us developers out there write tons of tests? We wish. Who cares if it's 80% or 100%, i'd rather inherit a codebase with lots of test coverage than without.
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by scottschulthess 10y ago
"I can get it working [sleep on linux]" vs "It works 100% all the time out of the box" is a huge difference
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by scottschulthess 11y ago
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by scottschulthess 11y ago
Web server codebases are typically also way easier to modify, unit test, with better tools and languages.
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails/Scala, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp/Hadoop. Make products that your friends and family will
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and family will use. https:/&#x2F
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
"With grid forms, lengthy forms can easily fit above the fold. Which means less scrolling. " Seems like a bad idea to me whenever designs attempt to "Fit stuff above the fold". Scrolling is a lot better, and I think it&
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and family will use. https:/&#x
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
Zipcar - Boston, MA Work in the awesome fort point district at our nice new location. Build applications for use or support of people you can actually meet (local members, friends, family). Get a sweet Zipcar membership discount. Good pay.
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
I actually think that the authors rspec code is too abstract (at least for me). Unfortunately I think he's proving DHH's point.
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by scottschulthess 12y ago
Overspecialization is the source of a organizational smells in a lot of medium-sized engineering companies - a lot of times it's better to have generalist engineers with some specializations in what you need to do than a bunch of speci
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by scottschulthess 13y ago
"Slow tests" Our javascript tests suites are always much, much faster than our server-side test suites with similar coverage.
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by scottschulthess 13y ago
Causation vs correlation
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by scottschulthess 13y ago
Yep it's pretty common
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How to know if you're cut out for programming(scottschulthess.co)
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
In my opinion, it's the fault of the whole organization, or at least the engineering team, for making it so likely that something like this would happen. Database backups would've solved the problem
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Anything that is entirely keyboard based and yet feature rich gets my vote (emacs, vim)
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
" If you sum EC2 and Heroku you are going to pay like 10x what it takes to run the same machines power in a dedicated server, all this because you can't handle the operations? This is absurd IMHO." It really depends. My current experience
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
"He writes that Yahoo employees should be "angry" that the new policy was declared "without your consultation". How does he know there was no consultation? How does he know local employees didn't give feedback to management that the extra c
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
"Tesla absolutely will get to Ford's volume production numbers with this strategy" really? maybe eventually. we are a ways off from mass market all electric vehicles.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Who joins a team account from your worst enemy?
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Sure. Though I probably would spread the automated testing workload among the whole team as opposed to appointing one person.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Well usually we fix them as they come in. Continuous deployment FTW - weekly releases create a whole lot of baggage. Other than that, I will just throw stuff in Trello, so I don't really have a bug database per say

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