nakor

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by nakor 2y ago
Not that I seek it out, but whenever I come across a Kent Beck post, I feel exactly the same. Authoritatively Pointing out the obvious with metaphors while having zero practical advice.
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by nakor 4y ago
I don't understand how this sentiment is weird at all and I think you're reading a lot of your own biases into it. The statement talks about where the work gets done and doesn't speak to how efficiently the work gets done. Th
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by nakor 4y ago
I may be wrong about exactly what company he worked for. Also it could be they're not unionized in Canada. Anyway I don't think it changes much.
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by nakor 4y ago
I have very conflicted views on unions. I worked for ~2 years as a contractor for a government entity in Canada. ~3500 headcount of employees. What I observed there was sickening. This was a place that had white-collar unions for all non-ma
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by nakor 11y ago
I've worked at a company where Agile/Scrum was implemented in beautifully and we never thought to change the process. However, I've worked more often at companies where Agile was either misunderstood, or inserted into an alre
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by nakor 11y ago
I think there are enough employers out there that are implementing the version of Agile/Scrum described in OP's post. I currently work at such company and can relate with pretty much everything on that post. The sad part is I&#x27
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by nakor 12y ago
I'm not sure. If you then go head and inline the code after, your unit tests will be worthless. I mean it could work if you are writing a product that will be delivered and never need to be modified significantly again (how often does
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by nakor 12y ago
What if I want to test some part of the function in isolation? At my current job I have to maintain a huge and old ASP.NET project that is full of these "god-functions". They're written in the style that Carmack describes, an
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by nakor 12y ago
"App store for Android," What does this mean? Looks interesting.
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by nakor 14y ago
I also want to echo this sentiment. It's sad how many people here have responded with disgust and have wished bad things upon you. I come to HN to read discussions of a higher level, and instead of proposing level-headed solutions as to how
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by nakor 14y ago
I can't believe someone who has 'delivered highly scalable solutions' actually managed to write this line on his blog with a straight face. How were you not able to deduce that the devs likely detected disabled javascript without the use of
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by nakor 14y ago
As soon as search engines stop caring. As it stands, they care. See: http://raventools.com/blog/forbes-reports-that-google-plus-w...
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by nakor 14y ago
I'm not sure if they actually could have sold the company to google even if they wanted to. My understanding is that you must open your books to the prospective buyer after a certain stage and it is likely that once the google accountants h
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by nakor 15y ago
How fat is "fat"? Are you assuming the cache will be able to fit whatever data you need to work with?