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Running JavaScript unit tests headlessly in CI.

An agile process isn't just there to manage the developers, it's there to engage and manage the customer as well. In my experience, customers rarely know exactly what they want out…

Agile Developer (Python, Mobile, UI) Myspace / Specific Media Cardiff, United Kingdom. Full time. Specific Media are recruiting TDD evangelists and clean code junkies to help creat…

I figured out you could use the space bar to advance through the "slides", which made the presentation just about usable. I then instinctively - and possibly stupidly - tried to us…

Personally, I'd prefer to live in a society that dissuades the irresponsible from taking risks with other people's lives every time they get behind the wheel.

I'm pretty sure not all deaths are featured on this map. I checked stretches of road where I know there have been deaths near my spot of rural North Wales. Those deaths weren't on …

Cardiff, Wales, UK. Full time Xumo (part of Specific Media/MySpace) is hiring TDD evangelists, JavaScript maniacs and clean code junkies to work on smart TV applications. More info…

Stephen Fry has a talent with the written word that rarely disappoints. Of the many articles, obituaries and anecdotes about Steve Jobs I've read today, that one is the most compel…

This is a common misconception. TDD does not 'espouse' in any way that you write all your tests first. Nothing I have read suggests so. For me, TDD, in practice means switching bac…

Dead zones are not created by overfishing but by intensive farming techniques on land and what's subsequently washed into the sea via rivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone…

I disagree, I very much read that as 'which are [environmentally] ok to eat'. However, a friend's wife is pregnant. He - being somewhat preoccupied with pregnancy at the moment - m…

Hmm, which is more valuable, $1000 or #1 on HN?

Agreed, I've always thought of it in these terms. With a service, how much you earned is directly linked and therefore constrained by effort your able to apply. Ultimately limited …

We suffer from the same security hysteria here in the UK, albeit somewhat less hysterical. There was an article on HN a while back about how 'israelification' of US airports would …

If you're shipping products and making things of value using great tools (however fashionable they are) it means you spend more time shipping and adding value and less time dealing…

> Someone the other day was commenting on the whole 'everyone wants to be a geek now' thing and wondering what to call true geeks now. > I told him not to worry and that another wo…

I think that's precisely one of the the points Zed is making. That is, that coding is a cool, rewarding pursuit. But that you shouldn't expect a coding profession to necessarily be…

I'd suggest that you help your fellow developers more by writing code that needs fewer comments to make it understandable. However, I agree that what you say is certainly true of A…

I've worked with a lot of legacy code over the years. I don't usually care whether code has comments or not. Comments are a very poor way of expressing semantics in code. Usually, …

In my experience, if you switch projects regularly you become increasingly dependent on your network of previous bosses and colleagues for future gigs. It's stands to reason that y…

Agreed, any reasonable developer looks past the magic myth. Like the article says, you read the source code and gain an understanding. However, I'd dispute the assertion that Rails…

Thanks for the comment, much appreciated. I guess I'm not that familiar with what repels some developers as I don't recall ever feeling that repulsion towards TDD myself. With rega…