viredfox

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by viredfox 12y ago
Assuming that pushing to gain skills is the highest priority. Since I have while a bit of autonomy in the current startup (comparing to working in other company), would it be possible to improve my skills while simultaneously trying to chan
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by viredfox 12y ago
None of the cloud CI would work for us: we have an inhouse hosted git server (the CTO does not trust open source, in general). So to do automated testing, I'd have to set up a Jenkins server on my own.
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by viredfox 12y ago
I'm from nowhereville college, and the pay is lower than the low end you gave. Part of the reason I asked on HN is because I don't know if feeling awesome is the norm in a startup: the work is expected to be stressful, isn't
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by viredfox 12y ago
Normally we have a scope of what we want to do (ie. Let's redo the homepage and the login page). Then the product team group up and hash out the requirement, which is then sent to the developer. Although there are iterative changes in
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by viredfox 12y ago
Thanks everyone for the advice. I have another question: assuming that pushing to gain skills is the highest priority. Since I have while a bit of autonomy in the current startup (comparing to working in other company), would it be possible
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by viredfox 12y ago
Part of the problem is that I'm not THAT good. I believe that there are a lot of things that can be fixed and/ or done better. And I'm fairly certain there are certain programmers that could do that, unfortunately, I'm y
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by viredfox 12y ago
Selenium needs quite a bit more overhead than the unit test I'd be doing, so I think it's even less unlikely. He is certainly not ideology against tests by any means, it's just he doesn't believe the trade off would be w
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by viredfox 12y ago
The CTO is a developer, with ~ 17 years of experience, I believe. Although I don't think he wrote any substantial amount of code at all in our product (from the start). We're an end-user consumer site, and the rate has been stable
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by viredfox 12y ago
To be fair, I think it's more of a concern that trying to write tests would slow the actual work down - I was trying to write regression test (still unit test, but definitely not tdd).
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by viredfox 12y ago
I don't think anyone in our team is anxious to be right. However, I also don't think anyone in our team is anxious to get better too (both in term of personal skills AND our process in general). For several reasons, most of our de
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by viredfox 12y ago
I actually talked with the CTO (not directly related to that), but I believe he doesn't think unit test is a worthwhile investment at the time. From what I learned, I don't think he has ever worked in an environment with a strong
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Ask HN: How do I know if the startup I'm working at is dysfunctional?
41 points by viredfox 12y ago|55 comments