We are in the middle of a global pandemic. I'm sorry this reality upsets you.
> It’s hard to do test-first TDD “mindlessly” because writing a test usually forces you to think in terms of the specification of the behavior you’re about to implement. Tests are code. Code can be sloppy, fallible,…
> Is it just me or was this _not_ surprising at all? It wasn't surprising to anyone that has reflected about the value of tests. Mindless testing/TDD isn't usually reflective, though.
A mandatory meeting in which all developers must be present and regurgitate status updates to the entire team, as an example, assumes this information wouldn't get to relevant parties organically and all team members…
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye. This isn't what happens during webcam meetings. If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you. >…
Don't estimate. They don't matter and nobody cares about them anyway. If you're a sales driven/feature factory company, the estimates won't matter anyway as you'll demand to meet your obligations regardless of…
> Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll integrates with automatic restarts, ingress, etc. Is this serious?…
> Then why do you start running forward instantly when you press “W” in counterstrike or quake? Why not just deploy servers closer to users? You do both? Game client handles movements and writes game state changes to a…
> In many areas of the US, that trigger happy cop will be the difference between you recovering your propert A cop's not going to get your bike back. They'll write a report and then throw it away when you leave.
(Not attacking you) Do you write a substantial amount of Go very frequently?
I've been paying attention to Zig posts on HN, mostly just because it seems well-liked and I think Andrew Kelley is interesting/smart. Would it be fair to say that Zig is to C, what Rust is to C++? Or are they both just…
> For large PHP setups it is usually the number of database connections that is the limiting factor, For pretty much every modern programming language, IO is the bottleneck over everything else. To save you some time,…
I've always found it interesting that Git gets a pass for its horrible UX by so many devs. The programming community wants to provide too many options for _everything_. If there's a tool you don't like, there are…
> Oh let me clear that up for you. > Are there any other mysteries we can clear up? I mean we all had to start somewhere and "there are no stupid questions" right? I'm surprised at how big a jackass a single person can…
Most pieces of technology create as many problems as they're meant to solve. The cost-benefit is always around whether or not the solved problems are worth the cost of the new problems. If latency is such a problem that…
> Kubernetes is complex because the reality of what you’re dealing with is complex. Passing off complexity instead of reducing it isn't a net-positive though. The purpose of frameworks/libraries/etc is to (considerably)…
> why are you joining the meeting to begin with? At companies that misuse meetings, most meetings are not optional to attend. Of course you could say "Well just don't go", but some people don't like getting fired over…
Seeing lots of posts in this thread about "Americans" and "freedom", but these posters I think are forgetting that the only thing Americans love more than "freedom" (quotes intentional) are controlling other people,…
What a truly excellent strawman. Do you see no middle ground between obviously sexual content and a Burqa? Is there no middle ground between writing someone's name on your breasts for $5 and going to the beach to swim?
The joke is asserting that hot tub streams aren't sexually suggestive. The twitch community seems to love them, so of course Twitch will fight tooth and nail to keep them. But to suggest that they aren't sexually…
Twitch continues to pretend hot tub streams aren't intentionally sexually suggestive. What a joke. HN doesn't really do memes, but I made this because it seems relevant: https://imgflip.com/i/5ah3b7
Diminishing a person's job in an attempt to discredit their feedback has even less credibility.
> 7. Epic paid so far 1 billion USD to convince devs to not sell in competitor stores. This is kind of a toxic disingenuous spin on store exclusives, no?
I'm not familiar with Clojure Specs, but it definitely sounds exactly like the "Dynamic language implements type checking tooling to assert correctness", as referenced in the above post. The spec website just looks like…
> Unfortunately I am too lazy and careless to use Clojure in any serious capacity though. I really need a Haskell or Rust compiler to remind me of all my silly mistakes. I can't be trusted to get to the same level of…
We are in the middle of a global pandemic. I'm sorry this reality upsets you.
> It’s hard to do test-first TDD “mindlessly” because writing a test usually forces you to think in terms of the specification of the behavior you’re about to implement. Tests are code. Code can be sloppy, fallible,…
> Is it just me or was this _not_ surprising at all? It wasn't surprising to anyone that has reflected about the value of tests. Mindless testing/TDD isn't usually reflective, though.
A mandatory meeting in which all developers must be present and regurgitate status updates to the entire team, as an example, assumes this information wouldn't get to relevant parties organically and all team members…
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye. This isn't what happens during webcam meetings. If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you. >…
Don't estimate. They don't matter and nobody cares about them anyway. If you're a sales driven/feature factory company, the estimates won't matter anyway as you'll demand to meet your obligations regardless of…
> Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll integrates with automatic restarts, ingress, etc. Is this serious?…
> Then why do you start running forward instantly when you press “W” in counterstrike or quake? Why not just deploy servers closer to users? You do both? Game client handles movements and writes game state changes to a…
> In many areas of the US, that trigger happy cop will be the difference between you recovering your propert A cop's not going to get your bike back. They'll write a report and then throw it away when you leave.
(Not attacking you) Do you write a substantial amount of Go very frequently?
I've been paying attention to Zig posts on HN, mostly just because it seems well-liked and I think Andrew Kelley is interesting/smart. Would it be fair to say that Zig is to C, what Rust is to C++? Or are they both just…
> For large PHP setups it is usually the number of database connections that is the limiting factor, For pretty much every modern programming language, IO is the bottleneck over everything else. To save you some time,…
I've always found it interesting that Git gets a pass for its horrible UX by so many devs. The programming community wants to provide too many options for _everything_. If there's a tool you don't like, there are…
> Oh let me clear that up for you. > Are there any other mysteries we can clear up? I mean we all had to start somewhere and "there are no stupid questions" right? I'm surprised at how big a jackass a single person can…
Most pieces of technology create as many problems as they're meant to solve. The cost-benefit is always around whether or not the solved problems are worth the cost of the new problems. If latency is such a problem that…
> Kubernetes is complex because the reality of what you’re dealing with is complex. Passing off complexity instead of reducing it isn't a net-positive though. The purpose of frameworks/libraries/etc is to (considerably)…
> why are you joining the meeting to begin with? At companies that misuse meetings, most meetings are not optional to attend. Of course you could say "Well just don't go", but some people don't like getting fired over…
Seeing lots of posts in this thread about "Americans" and "freedom", but these posters I think are forgetting that the only thing Americans love more than "freedom" (quotes intentional) are controlling other people,…
What a truly excellent strawman. Do you see no middle ground between obviously sexual content and a Burqa? Is there no middle ground between writing someone's name on your breasts for $5 and going to the beach to swim?
The joke is asserting that hot tub streams aren't sexually suggestive. The twitch community seems to love them, so of course Twitch will fight tooth and nail to keep them. But to suggest that they aren't sexually…
Twitch continues to pretend hot tub streams aren't intentionally sexually suggestive. What a joke. HN doesn't really do memes, but I made this because it seems relevant: https://imgflip.com/i/5ah3b7
Diminishing a person's job in an attempt to discredit their feedback has even less credibility.
> 7. Epic paid so far 1 billion USD to convince devs to not sell in competitor stores. This is kind of a toxic disingenuous spin on store exclusives, no?
I'm not familiar with Clojure Specs, but it definitely sounds exactly like the "Dynamic language implements type checking tooling to assert correctness", as referenced in the above post. The spec website just looks like…
> Unfortunately I am too lazy and careless to use Clojure in any serious capacity though. I really need a Haskell or Rust compiler to remind me of all my silly mistakes. I can't be trusted to get to the same level of…