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by zzalpha 10y ago
The worst part is they have some legitimate points (the issues surrounding family law are very well established). And then they poison the well with that absurdity...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Err, my apologies if that came across as a slight, I literally meant you and a lot of other folks made the exact same mistake. No judgement intended, it's clearly a common misapprehension. My guess is that a lot of folks got introduce
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If I build the unit first and add tests later, it's more likely I'll end up with something where the API reflects the implementation. With test last, I'm also less likely to test everything well; after the implementation is
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Only if you think unit testing necessarily requires TDD (which is defined as writing tests before writing the code that passes those tests). It doesn't. All the article says is TDD has little or not impact... it does not say unit tes
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Nice work on the false dichotomy. :) TDD has a very specific meaning. It means you write tests, then write code that passes those tests. That specific order. If you're not doing that, you're not actually adhering to the defin
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by zzalpha 10y ago
No, that's the value of automated regression test. TDD is just one way to skin that particular cat.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Well, let me ask you: Why would we assume TDD would improve code quality or development time? If, at the end of the day, the result is the same volume of tests and the same level of overall coverage, the order of activity would seem to ma
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by zzalpha 10y ago
sigh Come on man. If you'd just stopped at the question mark, you'd have a civil, if somewhat pithy comment that could potentially trigger some sort of conversation. Instead you punctuate with foul language and insults, effectiv
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Just to be clear, I picked he Russia/China example as an illustration, not a claim they are actually involved. Maybe I should've picked Switzerland and Norway as my examples to avoid clouding the issue... ;)
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I don't think there is. What if Russia or China or Germany issued a statement of their point of view that influenced the election. Do you see that as okay? I don't view it as equivalent. It's kinda like the difference betwe
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Well, so question (and this is an honest one): suppose Russia or China hacked into government facilities and then leaked information that influenced the election. Do you see that as okay? Next, suppose Russia or China supported an independ
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You know, instead of assuming a vast conspiracy, you could use regular ol' common sense. On the one hand we have an email dump that, while there seems to be some amount of smoke, doesn't itself represent much of a fire. Just the
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I don't see any reason to assume we need to have everyone aspiring to marriage. With 7 billion people on the planet, it is not like there is some population shortage that needs to be remedied. To me, the real question should be if th
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by zzalpha 10y ago
After reading articles like this one during this election cycle, I had to take a step back and realize that I was also guilty of looking down on the people he described as the Trump supporter and that I had my own prejudices. Well, in you
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Now that is a very valid point. We recently rejected a very green grad because it was very clear he had no intention of committing to the job more than a couple of years. With a likely 12 month ramp and training period there was no way we
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Umm... Of course they're graduating with no professional coding experience. The entire point is they don't have professional experience yet. What the hell do you expect them to do? They have to start somewhere. Do chemical compa
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Sure, but with flat lined subscriber growth and very low user engagement, it's very tough to build a revenue growth story built around ad revenues.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Two words: revenue stream. Where Facebook succeeded and Twitter failed was 1) building and growing a massive, highly engaged subscriber base, and then b) monetizing them. The reality is, Twitter's DAU growth YoY has flat lined at aroun
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Seriously? If your application become sufficiently complex that it can't be easily grokked by a decent dev, that's when you know it's time to switch. Until then it's just over engineering (which the JS community admitted
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Your use of the word "easier" is questionable. Even for trivial SPAs it's often easier to roll the basic functionality yourself. Flipping over to something like Angular introduces technical and cognitive overhead that often
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Of course it can be both. The question the author is asking, given the above, is: where is the line between introversion and just being selfish? And does she cross it and then justify her selfishness as introversion?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Speaking as a fellow chicken shit extrovert, I can relate. I'm basically extroverted with very mild social anxiety, coupled with run-of-the-mill self-doubt/self-esteem issues. But once I get going, I code-switch to "outgoing
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I'm curious, what are your main expenses? Living in the Bay area?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
what's the appeal of smoking cigars? Same basic reason people smoke cigarettes: The taste and the nicotine buzz.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Actually, based on my experience, what I found most remarkable about writing code in Haskell (which I admit I haven't done much of) is that I'd spend an enormous out of time wrestling with the compiler, but once I finally got all
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yup. The correct solution to this is schemas, not throwing away typing information.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yeah. Welcome to a world where beliefs are equivalent to facts. Even real life experiments like this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tooth-decay-calgary-fl... Are unlikely to dissuade folks given the
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by zzalpha 10y ago
The DNC isn't unique in that respect. Both parties has been profiling voters for years and years, and with the advent of more sophisticated targeting advertising techniques, both online and now in more traditional media, are leveraging
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yup, or conversely, "everything is fine, everyone's opinion is valid", and you get modern news coverage. Not taking a side is no more honorable, admirable, or enlightening than taking one.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
FreeRTOS?

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