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by shimst3r 3y ago
Looking at the GitHub repo, it’s written in Scala.
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by shimst3r 3y ago
If you do TDD, you write your tests first. If you don’t follow TDD, you don’t have to. The author insists on this because they assume a TDD approach.
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by shimst3r 3y ago
Instead of Test-Driven Design, it should’ve been called Design-By-Testing.
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by shimst3r 3y ago
As someone who has worked as a data engineer on an organically grown monolith, the last thing you want to do is ceding control over your schema due to the lack of (sensible) abstraction. Everyone will change it, nobody cares about standardi
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by shimst3r 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: With quickly growing organizations and therefore more inexperienced people managers, promoting someone to staff engineer is an easy way out of responsibility. How often have I heard "you’re at a point in your career
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by shimst3r 5y ago
While I see the benefit of this approach, I’m often baffled why people want to go either 100 % POSIX builtins or 100 % scripting language. The biggest benefit of the shell is its clearly defined input and output (and error) interfaces. Most
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by shimst3r 5y ago
We used mob programming as a framework for conducting coding dojos, it was a very good experience. We based the sessions roughly on the book https://pragprog.com/titles/mpmob/code-with-the-wisdom-of-th... - having
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by shimst3r 5y ago
There’s been a recent podcast episode on this on the Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/209 All the best to your friend, may they have the power and support to go through this change.
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by shimst3r 6y ago
It always existed. -- sent from my iMac in Bielefeld
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by shimst3r 6y ago
I haven’t worked with C in quite a while, but this repository is beautiful and wants me to look into the language again. Very readable to me and also well formatted.
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by shimst3r 6y ago
Do you know cookie cutter? https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.0/ There are a lot of task specific templates that can be adjusted and open sourced if needed.
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by shimst3r 6y ago
I'm still loving my 2013 MacBook Air 13" with an i7 and 8 GB RAM. I mostly do Python development with Vim (web, DevOps, ML/NLP) and Dart/Flutter stuff with VSCode. For bigger workloads I ssh into my iMac.
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by shimst3r 7y ago
I’d suggest based on PyPI download numbers, see https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/
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by shimst3r 7y ago
The official Flutter course was very good, hosted by London App Brewery. Definitely worth it if you’re looking into cross-platform frontend development.
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by shimst3r 7y ago
> Parsoid/PHP also brings us one step closer to integrating Parsoid and other MediaWiki wikitext-handling code into a single system, which will be easier to maintain and extend. I assume that Wikimedia works on a rather tight budget