WAT Driven Development

#1

Post by jrom » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 4:31 PM UTC

Re: WAT Driven Development

#2

Post by sc68cal » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 4:53 PM UTC

This is great! I just downloaded the mp3, converted it to WAV and now use it as the sound played when CCTray (for CC.NET) reports a broken build.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#3

Post by jrom » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 4:55 PM UTC

sc68cal wrote: post #2

This is great! I just downloaded the mp3, converted it to WAV and now use it as the sound played when CCTray (for CC.NET) reports a broken build.

Haha, awesome! We're hooking it up with our CI to have a WAT when a build fails.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#4

Post by alpb » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

Does anyone know how to set bell sound in iTerm 2 on OS X?

Re: WAT Driven Development

#5

Post by LabThug » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 5:10 PM UTC

Back when I used Visual Studio (1999), I did something similar using Robby the Robot (Warning), Daleks (for errors), the "You have the power" (Compilation successful) chick from RevCo's Gila Copter/Silence of the Lambs, and a Skinny Puppy rift (hitting a breakpoint)...good times!

Re: WAT Driven Development

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Post by jrom » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 5:27 PM UTC

alpb wrote: post #4

Does anyone know how to set bell sound in iTerm 2 on OS X?

alpb I use iTerm2, it just uses the system sound as I explained. Make sure you didn't enable "Silence bell" under iTerm2 prefs, Profiles, Terminal (the tab), Notifications.

Re: WAT Driven Development

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Post by dmd » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 5:56 PM UTC

This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'.

It is properly pronounced deadpan, to rhyme with 'but' (with no h-sound wutsoever).

Re: WAT Driven Development

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Post by oacgnol » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 6:11 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #7

This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'. It is properly pronounced deadpan, to rhyme with 'but' (with no h-sound wutsoever).

My reference pronunciation has always been like the word "watt", deadpan, with a blank face while staring into space.

Re: WAT Driven Development

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Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #7

This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'. It is properly pronounced deadpan, to rhyme with 'but' (with no h-sound wutsoever).

Homographs.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#10

Post by jes5199 » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

The ESC key in vi is idempotent. It's not doing it wrong to hit it thousands of times. It's doing it wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head.

I have a similar habit of typing "git " in my terminal, and then getting distracted while I think through what I'm trying to do, and then just typing "git " again. Rather than punish myself, I just wrote a script called git-git. https://github.com/jes5199/git-git so I can type "git git git push" and it works.