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pftg

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About pftg

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #46653910

    The problem of handoffs makes this work far from cheap. And tests are not dumb work. TDD uses them to establish clarity, helping people understand what they will deliver rather tha…

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    Comment #46653855

    I cannot believe the excuse for why shift-left QA is “not working” is that Amazon hires developers who can’t learn basic testing skills that QA engineers picked up in three months.…

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    Comment #44725728

    You can easily build your own clear, simple DSL with Minitest, Pytest, or JUnit - no overthinking needed. Engineers can whip up more readable and reliable tests quickly. Since only…

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    Comment #42880547

    This reminds me of a brilliant Soviet satirical cartoon that illustrated the same principle with hats instead of shoes: https://youtu.be/gSpjDi2BrQk?si=CtJwQTHkm0HfNrxx

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    Comment #42307954

    React just doesn't meet our needs, and switching from server-side rendering to it wouldn't really benefit us.

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    Comment #42181809

    Yeah, I believe Sinatra https://sinatrarb.com/ or Padrino https://padrinorb.com/ inspired Hono. So you are back to Ruby ;)

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    Comment #41819309

    CodePilot delivers the most effective performance for its cost. After trying other options like Continue + deepseek-v2, I found that the expense of hosting a bigger local version o…

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    Comment #40896682

    Some time back, I was tasked with sharing my thoughts on sustaining an out-staffed venture with outsourced cartage services and onboarding 200 to 400 developers within 3 years. Wha…

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    Comment #40306088

    Great story, nicely written. The goal is to show off ;) But really nice to read. Definitely, this is a bad example and precedent to build toxic and non-cooperative environments. An…

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    Comment #40012462

    Clickbait sharing the issue but related with unit tests but mocks ;(

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    Comment #39464555

    Yep! RubyMine is like Ubuntu, and VSCode is Arch Linux!

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    Comment #39464547

    > find out that not having types causes lots of problems Yeah, it's hard to find a decent team, so we work with less experienced guys who need a lot of safeguards like static types…

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    Comment #39464531

    No, it's an additional tool only for big legacy projects! TDD is much simpler and safer.

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    Comment #39464514

    > Using VS Code as a Ruby on Rails editor shouldn't be so hard! However, I personally prefer RubyMine since it comes with everything out of the box. I only use VS Code as a text ed…

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    Comment #38568415

    First version was cleaner, and new code is, obviously, not clean at all, because it requires much more energy to learn then first one. Interesting that author misguide DRY code wit…

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    Comment #38559347

    Nice list. Some good and some of them are contr-productive like promoting of use of preloading and calc in memory.

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    Comment #34515157

    There is an irony here. Because in 2010 Bitcoin said the same that transactions should be cheap and fast, and now you see that they have failed to deliver that ;(

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    Comment #33398948

    missed process part. devops is not just automatization

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    Comment #33398943

    great reply

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    Comment #33077290

    I found great advice on Twitter https://twitter.com/pauld_fgc/status/1574107791651905536 by Paul P. API & Platform Results: Rails: @Railway wins. Render wakeup boot extremely slow …

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    Comment #32584828

    nope, still other alternatives requires some invest in integration and onboarding

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    Comment #31860792

    This is just our staff model, which Ukraine companies have provided for the last 25 years. We have a lot of them. I have not found any difference or deal breaker in your story. Top…

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    Comment #30758315

    The most closest tools is Cucumber

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