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by eddsh 4y ago
Oh I 100% agree but as a junior engineer you're not going to be able to change that, if you can change it you probably won't change it for the better, and using HN comments to fuel debates over long-standing patterns will just cau
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by eddsh 4y ago
If you're anything like me, given enough time you wonder if all the 'fluff' of OO is necessary as you seem to be writing code to satisfy the programming style rather than the domain problem. You'll then try FP and find i
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by eddsh 4y ago
Don't listen too closely to the issues people have with GoF and Design Patterns. Yes, they have their issues and an over-reliance is an issue. However as a junior engineer you should learn these things and come to this realization (or
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by eddsh 4y ago
QA should be writing the underlying code along with the BDD-style tests, using something like a Page Object Model design, with BDD-wrappers on top mostly for non-technical analysts like PMs and BAs to understand coverage and add test cases.
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by eddsh 4y ago
I’m on Middlefield road in midtown, weird you felt it and I didn’t! Slightly closer to San Jose than you.
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by eddsh 4y ago
Didn’t feel it in Palo Alto but my wife did in Stanford. I’ve yet to experience one!
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by eddsh 4y ago
Actually it’s common for Haskell devs to write property-based tests that are far more complex than regular tests (identifying useful properties is a true artform). Source: I’ve been a test engineer on a large Haskell product!
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by eddsh 4y ago
> and the only thing you need to get a job is good whiteboard/leet coding skills I have over 8 years experience and don't find this is the case. Maybe it is only for junior roles nowadays? Sure I've been leetcode'd in
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by eddsh 4y ago
I always assume someone who can build a small production web app from DB Schemas to the front end, including authentication and payments but nothing more specialist than that. Able to jump in anywhere along that stack and be dangerous enoug
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by eddsh 4y ago
Chat to your doctor about this, sounds like it may be ‘proper’ depression and they’ll be able to give you advice to tackle it. Maybe you aren’t but talking it through early and catching it early is best :) A life lesson I learned was to ens
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by eddsh 4y ago
I recently started a degree with Open University in Engineering (a distance learning course that's fully accredited in the UK but works for me as I move around while my wife works as a Postdoc, currently in Palo Alto). The book I'
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by eddsh 4y ago
Honestly I use bash for this. I keep a local repo of .deb/.tar.gz files and scp them onto a machine which makes them reproducible. I use uvt-kvm for VMs, config files to cover basic settings, and that's basically it. I run a fairl
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by eddsh 4y ago
Stanford had a big power outage recently (this summer) that took out student accommodation, server rooms, etc... due to wild fires.
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by eddsh 4y ago
What's Jai?