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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
Care to show us such a test or study?
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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
So here's how I summarise the whole essay: "Hardware is cheap. Instead of making your software perform well, why not just throw more hardware at the problem." Well, I've tried this before and it didn't work.
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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
> which btw provides no guarantee that a system even works end to end. Nor shoud it. Some things you test in isolation, others you test together. I am not making fun of dhh or Basecamp (37signals is the company, not a system). I even rea
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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
I am not dismissing Basecamp. I am just saying that in a large portion of the software world, applications are waaaay more complex than normal rails apps. And in that context, TDD makes sense if only to manage complexity. Even if you are no
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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
Rails, rails. rails. Everything is about Rails. David is a good guy, but I'm starting to wonder if he's ever built a moderately complex system, involving integrations, message queues, several data stores, a handful of third-party
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by slavoingilizov 12y ago
Equality is not the answer. There is no equality in nature. We have a discrimination problem, but the opposite of that is not equality, it's respect. Somewhere along the way, people started assuming that if women are equal to men, they
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by slavoingilizov 13y ago
Yes, but if you don't generalize you can't have a captivating title and can't reach the HN frontpage.
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by slavoingilizov 13y ago
Everything is an opinion. Instead of dismissing it because it is not universal, you can think it through, take the good stuff and compare it to the good stuff from opposing opinions. Then you find the middle ground that suits your context b
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by slavoingilizov 13y ago
I agree it may help, but how on earth is a dog the same as a companion? It will fill a different void but certainly not the lack of a soulmate.
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by slavoingilizov 13y ago
Static typing is easy for newbie developers. It sets hard boundaries, and when you remember those rules, it's easy to follow what the code does. You don't have to step through it in your head and think about it much to figure it o
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Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria(medium.com)
24 points by slavoingilizov 13y ago|12 comments