boyakasha

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Against Must-Haves (Part Three)(tomdalling.com)
3 points by boyakasha 2y ago|0 comments
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Nugs and Negative Failure Demand(tomdalling.com)
1 points by boyakasha 3y ago|0 comments
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by boyakasha 3y ago
> It's a risk _mitigation_ strategy. It's designed to mitigate _delivery_ risk, not _organisational_ risk. > If a team can't pull off agile what do they think would have been a safer strategy? I would probably argue tha
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Agile Is a Glass Cannon(tomdalling.com)
42 points by boyakasha 3y ago|84 comments
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Marketing Yourself as a Junior Engineer(tomdalling.com)
1 points by boyakasha 4y ago|0 comments
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Context, Costs, and Benefits(tomdalling.com)
2 points by boyakasha 4y ago|0 comments
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by boyakasha 6y ago
That's something to keep in mind, but it's not the whole picture. Just because it's not guaranteed to be true doesn't mean that it's unpredictable. Like, you can't guarantee that the file for a Rails controller
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by boyakasha 6y ago
I literally hit two today. Off the top of my head: def enhance_payload(payload) payload[:h] = thing_h if situation_one? payload[:a] = thing_a payload[:b] = thing_b end if situation_two?
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by boyakasha 6y ago
> I've discovered that I am nonplussed by patterns that leave other devs downright emotional and it's just not worth the effort to discuss One thing that annoys me (and I'm not saying that you're doing it here) is tha
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by boyakasha 6y ago
So you, I, all the HN commenters, and the author, all had the same probability of making $100,000 from iOS icons last week? Was it just a random roll of the dice? I guess we were just unlucky then. Fingers crossed for next week. To say &quo
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by boyakasha 6y ago
Exactly. There is a lot of post-hoc rationalisation happening, along the lines of: > I like language/technology X. Why? Well I'm obviously a super smart and rational person, so my preferences could only be based on facts and lo
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What's Stopping You from Coding Like This?(tomdalling.com)
1 points by boyakasha 6y ago|0 comments
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by boyakasha 6y ago
> You're never going to get sensible dietary advice on HN. > If you can't get sun you should eat a variety of food that contains vitamin D. It's admirable that you prove your own point two sentences later.
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Tom's Data Onion(tomdalling.com)
5 points by boyakasha 6y ago|2 comments
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Dream Code First(rubypigeon.com)
2 points by boyakasha 8y ago|0 comments
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by boyakasha 9y ago
What stupid mistake? It was an NPM bug.
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Two Approaches to Learning Programming: Top-Down and Bottom-Up(programmingforbeginnersbook.com)
60 points by boyakasha 9y ago|28 comments
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Methods Can Be Longer Than Five Lines(rubypigeon.com)
1 points by boyakasha 10y ago|0 comments
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Q&A with Piotr Solnica (Ruby/Rails)(rubypigeon.com)
2 points by boyakasha 10y ago|0 comments
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Wasting Time TDDing the Wrong Things(rubypigeon.com)
1 points by boyakasha 10y ago|1 comments
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Examining the Internals of the Rails Request/Response Cycle(rubypigeon.com)
2 points by boyakasha 10y ago|0 comments
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Friction Between Programming Professionals and Beginners(programmingforbeginnersbook.com)
3 points by boyakasha 11y ago|4 comments
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When You Know the Basics, but You Still Can't Code(programmingforbeginnersbook.com)
4 points by boyakasha 11y ago|0 comments
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Expand Your Programming Vocabulary (for Beginners)(programmingforbeginnersbook.com)
70 points by boyakasha 11y ago|19 comments
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FizzBuzz in Too Much Detail(tomdalling.com)
134 points by boyakasha 11y ago|52 comments
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by boyakasha 15y ago
If you read the abstract of the paper that the post refers to, it actually says that the size of a _class_ affects the number of bugs _in that class_. That's something very different to the size/bugs correlation for a whole application.
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by boyakasha 15y ago
I think he means _selling_ to businesses (i.e. B2B as opposed to B2C), not _running_ a business. Also, your nasty tone doesn't help.
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by boyakasha 16y ago
I think we have different interpretations of "testing". I'm talking about testing in general, not just testing incremental changes.
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by boyakasha 16y ago
If Jonathan Ives submitted a design for Google Instant, and his design was better than the "obvious solutions", then it would test well. If a better solution tests badly then, by definition of the word "test", you're not testing it properly
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by boyakasha 16y ago
I agree entirely. I'm very happy with Gmail, and switching from Winamp to iTunes just left me wishing that a Mac version of Winamp existed, even after using iTunes for about two years.

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