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WAT Driven Development

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Re: WAT Driven Development

#11
post #7

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

I tend to agree with this, but in the circles I run in where it was used it's also spelled 'wut'. I was a little confused when I first saw it here on HN as 'wat'.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#13
post #5

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!

I bet your co-workers loved you.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#14
post #10

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/…

You can also achieve the same effect by placing the following in your .gitconfig:

    [alias]
        git = !git

Re: WAT Driven Development

#16
post #7

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

Properly? References? Anyway, who cares, it's funnier to say when you sound it like "cat".

Re: WAT Driven Development

#17
post #10

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/…

"It's ... wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head."

from the mouth of a vi user...

Re: WAT Driven Development

#18
post #7

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

"This just perpetuates the mispronunciation of 'WAT'."

What a silly thing to pretend to have any knowledge over. As if there is a consensus, or any authority by your part on the matter.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#19
post #10

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/…

" It's doing it wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head "

WAT? By that logic you don't know if you are in insert mode half the time, and start typing random characters all over the place.

Re: WAT Driven Development

#20
post #10

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/…

" It's doing it wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head " WAT? By that logic you don't know if you are in insert mode half the time, and start typing random characters all over the place.

Never stay in insert mode unless you are typing! Insert mode is a brief experience. itype type type
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