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I'm curious - what kind of organisational issues relating to hiring new developers would be alleviated by having some tests? Are you referring to incoming developers being put off by the perception of a legacy codebase which is horrible to work with? Just curious!

Yeah I guess that is true. I think in my mind 'hard sci-fi' is more of a trait than a sub genre. Actually now I think about I think maybe purist hard sci-fi fans might not be very big on Peter F. Hamilton. Greg Bear would have probably been a better bet for an extra recommendation!

Seveneves is great as are Snow Crash and Anathem by the same author. Anathem has a lovely epic feel. Tough read though!

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, and the other two in the trilogy too. Hard, but accessible. I've never read a series so dense with cool and believable ideas that are unlike much I had come across before.

The Reality Dysfunction by Pete F. Hamilton (and the rest of the series). If you want something a bit more traditional in form. More sex, violence and so on.

Ach, loads of others. Roadside Picnic really stuck with me too. Though might not be what most people would call 'hard sci-fi', not sure.

What an irritating blog post.

I don't disagree with the overall point (have experienced it myself, for sure, at times).

"instead walked around DC, sober, talking and enjoying the great weather with my beautiful wife" why does it have to be pointed out that his wife is "beautiful"? Seems a little hypocritical to me. And some of the stuff he picks on people having done (like posting a Twitter msg with a picture pf a bunch of empty beer bottles) is really scraping the barrel.

Shame really - started off quite well.