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fredifrum

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    Comment #22939019

    To the author: this is AWESOME. I find myself caught in the y/t/f loop all the time. I use a site blocker, but if I do want to visit a site, I end up turning off the blocker and fo…

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    Comment #21985494

    battery replacements aren't a thing for AirPods. You can send them to Apple to be recycled, though.

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    Comment #21695869

    I was also wondering this. I use Ideavim for IntelliJ as my primary editor. It is awesome, it will read your vimrc and allows you to set up mappings for any editor action.

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    Comment #21338093

    I think it does poll, and it's just looking for a diff in the previous message.

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    Comment #19525823

    It's perfect for a bedside table. Instead of needing to fumble around for a cable when I'm tired, I just place it on the mat. It's handy to have several pads around the house and o…

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    Comment #18459924

    OK, I get that you don't like unit tests. You also seem to have a very strict and unhelpful definition of what a unit test is. I don't really care for the academia of it, I just wa…

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    Comment #18453887

    It still seems like the core of your argument is "Some things are hard to test, so you might as well not test anything at all" - which I really don't buy. > How about you just answ…

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    Comment #18452850

    The fact that something might go wrong in the integration test doesn't mean unit tests for the core logic aren't helpful. Besides, you're probably going to be using an external lib…

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    Comment #18451410

    The SFTP file processor is actually a quintessential example of how unit tests can help new developers edit existing code. A unit test for the processor would mock out all of the S…

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    Comment #18445746

    You are able to go without tests because you're writing entire apps on your own. You know what each file, class, and module is supposed to do, and how to test it for regressions ma…

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    Comment #11184949

    Splitwise will continue to work and run. The API is not being shut down, they are simply not authorizing new API applications. The article is wrong and massively misleading.

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    Comment #11184944

    The article is massively wrong and misleading. The API is NOT being shut down. Current applications can still work, but new ones are no longer being accepted. See this tweet from V…