poplarstand

5 ms·

1.
by poplarstand 4y ago
Thank you so much for this! I didn't realize Swagger/OpenAPI had a way to auto-generate its specification. Your comment led me down the rabbit hole and helped me to find a few options that might do the trick.
2.
Ask HN: Implement API Testing on Legacy Codebases
1 points by poplarstand 4y ago|3 comments
3.
by poplarstand 4y ago
I agree. Part of the motivation for this post is that I've been doing triage on a maimed branch that got incorrectly squashed. That being said, the workflow for this project is unlikely to change. And, to be fair, the workflow has its
4.
by poplarstand 4y ago
There's some pretty clever tricks on that site that I wasn't familiar with. Much appreciated!
5.
by poplarstand 4y ago
That is a very cool website that I'd never seen before today. Thank you!
6.
Ask HN: How to Teach Git Rebase
18 points by poplarstand 4y ago|13 comments
7.
Ask HN: A Pragmatic Guide to Web Dev
2 points by poplarstand 4y ago|1 comments
8.
by poplarstand 5y ago
Something dead simple. I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. No decorators, no hundred-character lines for a print statement, no manual memory management or custom operators. A child should be able to use
9.
by poplarstand 5y ago
"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and
10.
by poplarstand 5y ago
Imagine a business that sells deliverable medical testing kits. This business is the best at what they do; they sell more kits than any other organization, they cost less, they're delivered faster, and are superior in any way, shape, K
11.
by poplarstand 5y ago
Current (almost finished) OMSA student here. I agree that the tools themselves aren't terrible, but I do believe they're an example of "doing the wrong thing faster". My claim would be that all time-limited exams are bad
12.
by poplarstand 5y ago
Would you be willing to provide a few references for this? My professional work has skirted around the discussion at times, and I would be fantastically interested in learning more.
13.
Ask HN: How to Effectively Test ETL?
3 points by poplarstand 6y ago|0 comments
14.
by poplarstand 6y ago
I'd like to offer another use case, one near and dear to my heart: grandma. My grandmother, like many grandmothers, has no business being on the road. She is a wonderful person. She is also a horrible driver, a threat to herself and ot
15.
by poplarstand 6y ago
My younger brother is in the same age range. He was interested in programming, so I pointed him towards Automate the Boring Stuff with Python . He has done well since, with his latest project being a simple mouse-wiggler script that sets h
16.
by poplarstand 6y ago
I believe that there is a strong argument to be made for the middle ground. Like you, I have been both a teacher and student, often at the same time, and was exposed to the trade-offs that any educational paradigm will have to make. My curr
17.
by poplarstand 6y ago
Offering my two cents as an idiot kid working with a posse of late career SQL DBA's: SQL isn't obsolete, but it's awfully tiring to deal with folks who treat it as the end-all be-all of data tech. The project I'm working
18.
Ask HN: A Primer on Security
1 points by poplarstand 6y ago|0 comments
19.
Ask HN: Learning Advanced Python
17 points by poplarstand 7y ago|4 comments
20.
by poplarstand 7y ago
You seem to have had a very successful PhD experience. You write approvingly of your advisor, acknowledge the ways in which the program benefited you, and have respect for peer-reviewed literature. That being said, I'm not sure that yo