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Oh I 100% agree but as a junior engineer you're not going to be able to change that, if you can change it you probably won't change it for the better, and using HN comments to fuel…

If you're anything like me, given enough time you wonder if all the 'fluff' of OO is necessary as you seem to be writing code to satisfy the programming style rather than the domai…

Don't listen too closely to the issues people have with GoF and Design Patterns. Yes, they have their issues and an over-reliance is an issue. However as a junior engineer you shou…

QA should be writing the underlying code along with the BDD-style tests, using something like a Page Object Model design, with BDD-wrappers on top mostly for non-technical analysts…

I’m on Middlefield road in midtown, weird you felt it and I didn’t! Slightly closer to San Jose than you.

Didn’t feel it in Palo Alto but my wife did in Stanford. I’ve yet to experience one!

Actually it’s common for Haskell devs to write property-based tests that are far more complex than regular tests (identifying useful properties is a true artform). Source: I’ve bee…

> and the only thing you need to get a job is good whiteboard/leet coding skills I have over 8 years experience and don't find this is the case. Maybe it is only for junior roles n…

I always assume someone who can build a small production web app from DB Schemas to the front end, including authentication and payments but nothing more specialist than that. Able…

Chat to your doctor about this, sounds like it may be ‘proper’ depression and they’ll be able to give you advice to tackle it. Maybe you aren’t but talking it through early and cat…

I recently started a degree with Open University in Engineering (a distance learning course that's fully accredited in the UK but works for me as I move around while my wife works …

Honestly I use bash for this. I keep a local repo of .deb/.tar.gz files and scp them onto a machine which makes them reproducible. I use uvt-kvm for VMs, config files to cover basi…

Stanford had a big power outage recently (this summer) that took out student accommodation, server rooms, etc... due to wild fires.

What's Jai?