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I usually think people who don't have Facebook are cooler than me

IME it's all about keeping in touch with people that you can't physically because they've moved away.

Only mock things that would be difficult to setup in a test, is my approach. Then also set up some other ci jobs for the difficult stuff when we have time.

Not writing tests is a great way to ensure future developers won't refactor your code

So you're saying test coverage is a negative? It's not an either or.

So the worst of us developers out there write tons of tests? We wish. Who cares if it's 80% or 100%, i'd rather inherit a codebase with lots of test coverage than without.

"I can get it working [sleep on linux]" vs "It works 100% all the time out of the box" is a huge difference

http://app.jobvite.com/m?3JQgQhwr Full Stack - Senior Engineer Zipcar Boston, MA, United States Full-Time Zipcar, the world’s largest car-sharing company, is looking to add new sen…

Web server codebases are typically also way easier to modify, unit test, with better tools and languages.

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails/Scala, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp/Hadoop. Make products that your…

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and …

"With grid forms, lengthy forms can easily fit above the fold. Which means less scrolling. " Seems like a bad idea to me whenever designs attempt to "Fit stuff above the fold". Scr…

Zipcar is hiring software engineers! Help improve car sharing and bring Zipcar to new markets. Ruby/Rails, Backbone/RequireJS/Bower/Grunt/Gulp. Make products that your friends and …

Zipcar - Boston, MA Work in the awesome fort point district at our nice new location. Build applications for use or support of people you can actually meet (local members, friends,…

I actually think that the authors rspec code is too abstract (at least for me). Unfortunately I think he's proving DHH's point.

Overspecialization is the source of a organizational smells in a lot of medium-sized engineering companies - a lot of times it's better to have generalist engineers with some speci…

"Slow tests" Our javascript tests suites are always much, much faster than our server-side test suites with similar coverage.

Causation vs correlation

Yep it's pretty common

In my opinion, it's the fault of the whole organization, or at least the engineering team, for making it so likely that something like this would happen. Database backups would've …

Anything that is entirely keyboard based and yet feature rich gets my vote (emacs, vim)