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Not that I seek it out, but whenever I come across a Kent Beck post, I feel exactly the same. Authoritatively Pointing out the obvious with metaphors while having zero practical ad…

I don't understand how this sentiment is weird at all and I think you're reading a lot of your own biases into it. The statement talks about where the work gets done and doesn't sp…

I may be wrong about exactly what company he worked for. Also it could be they're not unionized in Canada. Anyway I don't think it changes much.

I have very conflicted views on unions. I worked for ~2 years as a contractor for a government entity in Canada. ~3500 headcount of employees. What I observed there was sickening. …

I've worked at a company where Agile/Scrum was implemented in beautifully and we never thought to change the process. However, I've worked more often at companies where Agile was e…

I think there are enough employers out there that are implementing the version of Agile/Scrum described in OP's post. I currently work at such company and can relate with pretty mu…

I'm not sure. If you then go head and inline the code after, your unit tests will be worthless. I mean it could work if you are writing a product that will be delivered and never n…

What if I want to test some part of the function in isolation? At my current job I have to maintain a huge and old ASP.NET project that is full of these "god-functions". They're wr…

"App store for Android," What does this mean? Looks interesting.

I also want to echo this sentiment. It's sad how many people here have responded with disgust and have wished bad things upon you. I come to HN to read discussions of a higher leve…

I can't believe someone who has 'delivered highly scalable solutions' actually managed to write this line on his blog with a straight face. How were you not able to deduce that the…

As soon as search engines stop caring. As it stands, they care. See: http://raventools.com/blog/forbes-reports-that-google-plus-w...

I'm not sure if they actually could have sold the company to google even if they wanted to. My understanding is that you must open your books to the prospective buyer after a certa…

How fat is "fat"? Are you assuming the cache will be able to fit whatever data you need to work with?