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I'm disappointed that you missed the opportunity for a well-placed pun there :)-

I remember being on a team where I'd frequently point out that the tests were not only flaky, but useless. I suggested that we delete the useless & redundant tests and either fix o…

> I don't understand why you'd do pair programming with two new hires! There's nothing wrong with two new hires pairing. A few things a pair could be doing while the other is writi…

10,000%

Happy birthday HN. I absolutely love this community. Once I started reading HN somewhat frequently, there is no question that I became a better developer, thinker, researcher, and …

I'm just surprised people are more outraged that Spotify complied with the artist's request vs being outraged by Spotify's horribly cluttered (and confusing) UI.

I've been fortunate enough to have worked across pretty much every portion of the stack with the exception of hardware or core networking protocols. Everywhere else, I have experie…

If you like jq, then you might also like jmespath.terminal (jpterm): https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal

What the entire recruiting industry (this isn't unique to recruiting industry) fails to understand is, if the process isn't time optimal and fair, then engineers will eventually le…

I've interviewed with a couple teams that are using Shape Up and I got the general sense that the developers were happy with the process. Here is the readable on the web version: h…

Agreed. I suspect an open-source competitor could be much better than all of these if organized well.

anxiety === lack of documentation + lack of frequent communication + general desire to be _done_ as soon as possible

> what do you do when implementing a REST endpoint like GET /things where the user can give any number of 10 query parameters to filter the result? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/…

> My .vimrc is constantly improving. To the point where I ask myself how healthy the obsession/addiction is. I have to concede that this _was_ my experience until about a year ago.…

So, invest in yet another program that likely further exacerbates the issue just to sweep the underlying issue under the rug?

Curated configuration generally outlives data. If storage space becomes an issue, there is value in recovering storage space but config is generally small and much more important i…

I agree, you didn't look very hard.

Honestly, I was expecting the music to be extremely weak. The third item I hit was fire. The design is clean, no bs; Sold. Suggestions: 1. add autocomplete to your search box. 2. m…

> The right thing to do when taking a cc for a trial is to send reminder emails that they will be charged.. Which not enough do. > Wouldn't the "right thing to do" be to not auto-r…

To be honest, this is the kind of thing that would be great to highlight immediately on https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo or http://doc.crates.io/guide.html . I go to those pages …

You willingly subject yourself to this? Why?

I see where you're coming from, but I feel like it would be a mistake to expect the language or std lib to try to solve problems that are effectively organizational/cultural issues…

The issue with comments written this way is that there are no details to support the claim. Writing "see: JavaScript" doesn't really help without context. Without context, one does…

They have specifically stated that they do not have any plans to support parsing JSON.