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Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.” What a statement! This is why I dislike Slack as a company and as much as I hate Te…

Somewhat interesting but calling an old idea something catchy isn't really revolutionary. The article makes a lot of assumptions like "In practice, most agree as most projects set …

I completely agree and I think that if you take care of the people they will take care of each other (team). So when you've built a well oiled team that trusts each other the compa…

I've been wondering about that for a while. So far, I've not been able to find any examples of test architecture that follows those principles online or in my day job. I've also be…

I've been wanting to get more involved in the open source community but always found it difficult to find time / motivation. I am keen to hear how other people got involved in it!

I've seen this happen in a previous job. It literally made all the top performers in the team leave.

Get off your high horse for few minutes. High quality restaurants? Around Edinburgh the 'highest quality' restaurant offered is Pizza Express.

The problem I've seen come out of test after is complete implementations with 0 tests. People will just forget to do it! Especially if working on few different areas of the code at…

> the developer community has largely moved on How so? Moved on to what?

I've used Jira for about two and a half years and although it wasn't that bad for us, I can see how it might not be a good fit for every team. Anyway, we ended up using a physical …

That's been my experience as well. But it didn't happen because I was on the lookout for a fat paycheck. It happened because the companies I worked at the time couldn't provide the…

How did you negotiate that with your employer, and also are you doing contract/constancy work where an arrangement like that is slightly more realistic?

Got rid of it about 6-7 years ago, mainly due to all the annoying people posting photos of their food and pointless updates and check-ins. Who needs that.. I don't miss it one bit …

I like the general assumption that TDD failed. Failed at what exactly? Who would think 1 methodology would give them all they need to be a great software engineer? If TDD supposedl…

> Never got into it and always thought it is a complete waste of time. I advocate to write tests only for critical algorithmic calculations and nothing else. What great advice! Whi…