spawarotti

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   by spawarotti 6y ago

   Came here to say exactly that. The author is advocating for mockist style of unit testing, which is quite terrible for many, many reasons. What you are describing is classic unit testing, and this is the way to go. Good article and book abo
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   by spawarotti 6y ago

   Some people here suggest you might have ADHD. I encourage you to consider this, but suggest for you to be very skeptical towards this possibility. You can find extended discussion on this here: [1]. Focus first on fundamentals like sleep, e
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   by spawarotti 7y ago

   Looks like Haskell to me.
4. 64.▲
   by spawarotti 7y ago

   www.yegor256.com
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   by spawarotti 7y ago

   Cool. Perhaps I didn't understand how severe were your symptoms based on your article. Thanks for the clarification. I'm glad you found something that actually works well. I know the struggle is real. Hopefully you will be able to
6. 66.▲
   by spawarotti 7y ago

   See my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133134
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   by spawarotti 7y ago

   Thanks for the reply! Let me elaborate on my point. Consider a thought experiment: If you would spend 3 months in the woods, do you think it is plausible your symptoms would disappear? If you don’t think this as being plausible (likely even
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   by spawarotti 7y ago

   TL;DR: "Most people don't have problems with procrastination" <CITATION NEEDED> I’ve read the article. I would caution against labeling yourself as having ADHD, IMO it is very dangerous. Every high-achieving person I kn
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   by spawarotti 7y ago

   I agree with you, but I think this applies only in high trust environment. In my experience one toxic, condescending person can destroy the trust of an entire team and start making people take things the wrong way. Maybe in such situations,
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    by spawarotti 7y ago

    hjorthjort, exactly my thinking. Another one: "I was wondering if `sshd` would work here. What do you think?"
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    by spawarotti 7y ago

    I saw it before. Deletion Driven Development is one of the many names. For me a good rule of thumb is: removal of a feature should result in a diff that deletes a bunch of files (classes in case of oop) completely, and only single lines in
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    by spawarotti 8y ago

    Z3 is used by IntelliTest: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/generate-... You can use it to answer questions like "I want to reach this statement in this C# method, what values this meth
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    Star Forts(castlesandmanorhouses.com)

    64 points by spawarotti 8y ago|25 comments
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    by spawarotti 9y ago

    Thanks for the insightful comment. I especially like that you derived it from the most basic assumptions.
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    by spawarotti 9y ago

    That was my thought all along. My suspicion is one of the directives of the recruiter is to weed out people that are getting hung up on proving their point and/or stubbornly arguing about inconsequential things. The recruiter gave the
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    by spawarotti 10y ago

    Great analogy to surgery :)
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    by spawarotti 10y ago

    Academic research articles have to follow a quality standard enforced by a peer review process.
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    by spawarotti 10y ago

    See the paper "Change bursts as defect predictors" by Nagappan et al. and other papers by the authors.
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    by spawarotti 10y ago

    I'd prefer something simpler. Consider Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-scala.ht...
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    BoxMate: prevent malicious behavior by enforcing automatically generated specs(boxmate.org)

    2 points by spawarotti 11y ago|0 comments