elmomalmo

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by elmomalmo 13y ago
Running JavaScript unit tests headlessly in CI.
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by elmomalmo 14y ago
An agile process isn't just there to manage the developers, it's there to engage and manage the customer as well. In my experience, customers rarely know exactly what they want out of a software project, large or small. Complicated document
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Agile Developer (Python, Mobile, UI) Myspace / Specific Media Cardiff, United Kingdom. Full time. Specific Media are recruiting TDD evangelists and clean code junkies to help create the next generation of social entertainment - Myspace TV.
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
I figured out you could use the space bar to advance through the "slides", which made the presentation just about usable. I then instinctively - and possibly stupidly - tried to use backspace to go back a slide. Obviously, I arrived back at
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Personally, I'd prefer to live in a society that dissuades the irresponsible from taking risks with other people's lives every time they get behind the wheel.
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
I'm pretty sure not all deaths are featured on this map. I checked stretches of road where I know there have been deaths near my spot of rural North Wales. Those deaths weren't on this map for some reason.
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Cardiff, Wales, UK. Full time Xumo (part of Specific Media/MySpace) is hiring TDD evangelists, JavaScript maniacs and clean code junkies to work on smart TV applications. More information available upon request. Please email emalethan [at]
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Stephen Fry has a talent with the written word that rarely disappoints. Of the many articles, obituaries and anecdotes about Steve Jobs I've read today, that one is the most compelling read.
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What are the most harmful special interests in the US?(quora.com)
4 points by elmomalmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
This is a common misconception. TDD does not 'espouse' in any way that you write all your tests first. Nothing I have read suggests so. For me, TDD, in practice means switching back and forth between writing tests and production code. That
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Dead zones are not created by overfishing but by intensive farming techniques on land and what's subsequently washed into the sea via rivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
I disagree, I very much read that as 'which are [environmentally] ok to eat'. However, a friend's wife is pregnant. He - being somewhat preoccupied with pregnancy at the moment - may well have read it they way you did.
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Hmm, which is more valuable, $1000 or #1 on HN?
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
Agreed, I've always thought of it in these terms. With a service, how much you earned is directly linked and therefore constrained by effort your able to apply. Ultimately limited to the number of hours in a day. Alternatively, when develop
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
We suffer from the same security hysteria here in the UK, albeit somewhat less hysterical. There was an article on HN a while back about how 'israelification' of US airports would have a positive effect on actual security and a negligible a
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
If you're shipping products and making things of value using great tools (however fashionable they are) it means you spend more time shipping and adding value and less time dealing with the limitations of your tools.
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
> Someone the other day was commenting on the whole 'everyone wants to be a geek now' thing and wondering what to call true geeks now. > I told him not to worry and that another word would soon be coined to make fun of the true geek
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by elmomalmo 15y ago
I think that's precisely one of the the points Zed is making. That is, that coding is a cool, rewarding pursuit. But that you shouldn't expect a coding profession to necessarily be the either cool or rewarding. If you're happy in that profe
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
I'd suggest that you help your fellow developers more by writing code that needs fewer comments to make it understandable. However, I agree that what you say is certainly true of APIs.
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
I've worked with a lot of legacy code over the years. I don't usually care whether code has comments or not. Comments are a very poor way of expressing semantics in code. Usually, I'm looking for general readability and understandability. I
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
In my experience, if you switch projects regularly you become increasingly dependent on your network of previous bosses and colleagues for future gigs. It's stands to reason that you will want to do the best job you can, produce the best co
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
Agreed, any reasonable developer looks past the magic myth. Like the article says, you read the source code and gain an understanding. However, I'd dispute the assertion that Rails has excellent docs, it certainly hasn't always been the cas
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
Thanks for the comment, much appreciated. I guess I'm not that familiar with what repels some developers as I don't recall ever feeling that repulsion towards TDD myself. With regard to hacking something up quickly, I see no issue with this
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Practical TDD: It's iterative(malethan.com)
4 points by elmomalmo 16y ago|2 comments
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by elmomalmo 16y ago
Because a flawed process has worked in the past is no reason to dismiss a newer, better process as 'religion'.
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JavaScript BDD framework in less than 200 lines(malethan.com)
6 points by elmomalmo 17y ago|0 comments
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by elmomalmo 17y ago
The point I was trying (and I think succeeded) to make is that by employing TDD you automatically have more test coverage and therefore make refactoring and keeping your code clean that much easier.
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Why TDD: Freedom to refactor(malethan.com)
2 points by elmomalmo 17y ago|2 comments