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by trcollinson 13y ago
Disclaimer: I've read this article at least 10 times and I have never posted it to Hacker News. That being said, even though it is a repost (and should have the date added to the title), with all of the "interesting" articles
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by trcollinson 13y ago
Just a few comments I left on this blog post, maybe someone here will also find interesting or useful: I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree on a number of points. I think you make a number of flawed assumptions and miss some gre
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by trcollinson 13y ago
I was beginning to believe your comment would be like many others I have read in the past trying to justify why testing, and specifically TDD, should not be done in "real world" development. "Real systems are real complex, wh
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by trcollinson 13y ago
I respectfully beg to differ with your first statement. I TDD in embedded and low level code, well, always. There is a great work on this by Grenning, worth reading by anyone who wants to understand TDD better, whether it is for embedded C
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by trcollinson 13y ago
I see what you did there ;)
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by trcollinson 13y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Reading the terms of service, which were definitely, um, funny?... was interesting. They are going to collect a bunch of emails on a list, sell them to a big company, and split the proceeds with the people on the email l
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by trcollinson 13y ago
Wow, I'm sorry but do you really believe this statement: "Actually, everyone does have this. Whether they choose to use it is another story. I've yet to meet a person on this planet though that doesn't know that you can&
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You Won't Finish This Article(slate.com)
3 points by trcollinson 13y ago|0 comments
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by trcollinson 13y ago
I know this might sound like a "get off my lawn, kid" comment. Reading through what Mr. Levin answers here, he makes a lot of good points that I have thought a lot about lately. We have a lot of "neat learning to code" sorts of kids environ
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by trcollinson 13y ago
Agreed. There were a number of times I intended to do something that was similar to this, and even at school without supervision. I was punished on occasion, I was rewarded at other times. This does not make it a felonious offense. I am gra
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by trcollinson 14y ago
I don't know if this article actually claims that Kanban beats SCRUM but it was a great example of someone moving away from SCRUM. One thing I have noticed is that far too many people equate agile directly with scrum. We're now getting scru
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by trcollinson 14y ago
What a great point! This can happen to even us "seasoned" developer types. I remember learning how to write TDD after years of writing code without it. I was paralysed by trying to make all of the right decisions. Should I write a test here
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by trcollinson 14y ago
I have noticed that in big businesses (at least the many that I have been associated with) management sees agile methodologies as a "gimmick" used to keep the masses happy. Rarely have I seen it work from the bottom up (or top down, however
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Coding for the Soul(pivotallabs.com)
1 points by trcollinson 14y ago|0 comments
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by trcollinson 14y ago
I very much agree that knowing when to test and when testing is not needed is an art, not a science. I also hope that your readers know the difference between writing tests and writing code using tdd. My biggest problem with your statements
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by trcollinson 14y ago
I find it interesting that the premise for this entire diatribe is that once some code was written, a pivot was made, and a number of tests then had to be thrown away (or reworked, or re-factored?). Recently I had a code base where we decid