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I think TDD is best in the situations I enumerated because writing tests for single behaviors of single functions is easy, fast, forces you to discover errors that cause your tests…

The most important thing you can do for your career is: * Accept a job somewhere * Get promoted (doesn't matter how) * let yourself get hired away from your current company Getting…

Apple, Google, and Amazon will all make similar offers. My initial offer from Google was $150k base, ~15% holiday bonus, and came with >$100k in stock vesting over four years, and …

TDD is best when you're writing code that talks to other code. So APIs, database models, etc. Pure functions, and code that has dependencies you can inject and mock. You should nev…

> Continued advancement doesn't mean that it is accelerating, and even if this does represent an unexpected achievement that doesn't mean that future development will maintain that…

It sounds like the point of this story is to illustrate by analogy that starting from first principles is sometimes a silly way to approach a problem, and by extrapolation that it'…

> 24 men never chanted "show us your tits" > Perhaps it was an attempt at nodding to the Las Vegas themed "bad behaviour" after dark, combined with a nerdy attempt at being funny S…

That is a monumentally stupid thing to say, and that's coming from a guy who's an active reader of /r/mensrights. I know the author personally and she's telling the truth. Women wi…

We try to show ads that people will click on AND THEN buy/use whatever's on the other end. This maximizes advertiser value, long-term Google profit, and user experience all at once…

This is possibly a good article; I can't tell, not being up to date on current academic culture around humanites, which is what the article is about. I don't think this belongs on …

This is because (as I think you implied) HN, in a show of consistency with other online forums, is fond of reaching conclusions that are contrary to (any) conventional wisdom. This…

This seems like a great article, but I missed the part where it's relevant to hacker news. Did the community's focus shift or broaden in the months I've been away?

Writing is an art form. You did to this guy's writing exactly what he said you'd do. And here I am, doing the same to you. And of course it's best to be happy without other peoples…

Reversing the format of Job Fair is a great idea, because the bay area job market is backwards; employers have to chase potential employees. It's refreshing to finally see a(ny) tr…

This is a great idea, but it needs some polish. A native speaker needs to proofread the English, and the problems are underspecified

Be honest. You've felt that way about other humans sometimes.

I'm with you. I added parallel test execution to PHPUnit, which its maintainers have been promising since 2005. When I started writing it, they found me and encouraged me along. So…

'Sexist' has as many definitions as there are English-speakers. It's not a useful word unless you're a politician or a journalist. If you thought women never used words longer than…

I just tried fish for the first time, and it couldn't do the very first thing I tried to do, which was source my .zshrc. It doesn't have 'export', has some kind of nonstandard synt…

It was colorful language, not dismissal out of hand. It can be hard to communicate emotion online, so it's easy to take offense where none was meant. I think that's what happened h…

'A properly normalized and "constrained" database prevents data loss from stupid mistakes.' A properly written application layer also prevents data loss from stupid mistakes. A stu…

Fully agree. Since maybe it wasn't clear, I wasn't objecting to the approach of "let's decide what our firmly written rule is" but to the seemingly-implied rationale given in suppo…

> I think one of the questions you have to ask yourself is whether your primary responsibility to protect the interests of your real users (the non-patent trolls) or to take a stan…