macca321

Cool! How come my house (and much of central london) is missing?

I wonder if the box on the right should read "You need automated regression tests"

" in confrontation with entities that we encounter for the first time or do not have enough appreciation of their complexity, we approach from the most accessible angle we can understand. "

http://byterot.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/rule-of-most-accessibl...

TDD will leave you with a load of tests which prevent you from changing the code. BDD on the other hand should leave you with a suite that isn't coupled to a specific implementation.

Part of the information contained in a test is the intent of the verification being performed, and part is code for mapping that intent onto the implementation. The latter part can be discarded during a rewrite. Cucumber/SpecFlow etc. make the difference between these explicit.

There's only one rule:

1. Don't write fast running behavioural tests that verify the software is working as required.

With fast running tests I can maintain any old crap. Well, technically speaking I can rewrite it, but no-one will mind.

I'm not. Why would I subscribe to MSDN? I used to have a paid for VS Pro, now I use Community.

BDD got it right. Write your tests to prove the features are working, not to prove that the code written to implement the features does what it does.

You''d have thought on Hacker News of all places at least one person would pop up saying that they had AB tested user engagement with consistent and inconsistent variants.

Insert the word 'miniscule' into those sentences as per OP and you may get different answers. :)

I'm not sure they count as nature either. Broccoli was cultivated from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea I think

Maybe if you like watching car crashes.

Surprised at remote workers getting paid more

Then again, I live in London. Maybe they all telecommute to here.

If a project won't stand on it own it's own legs without a meme, it's probably not worth doing.

Sounds like a niche vertical

Reindeer food as-a-service

Sounds like you're looking for a distributed actor framework like AKKA

I had a crappy experience with their hiring. After delaying my application for months (while they worked on a 'standard test'), they eventually sent me a woeful programming task ("implement a single function in a language of your choice and describe how/why you implemented this way").

I did so, and submitted it. They then emailed me back I had been rejected without any feedback at all, and didn't send me any when I asked for some.

I would be interested to know if it offers anything over Globalize

https://github.com/jquery/globalize

It sounds like we should all be taking these drugs to stave off decrepitude.

It's well intentioned, but this project is destined to go nowhere fast.

Abstracting away web development and http has been tried again and again, and always ends up being more hassle than plain ol' HTML+JS+HTTP.

Then you've limited yourself to interop with the js libraries they've provided leaky wrappers over, or you can write your own leaky wrapper if you want to use coolnewthing.js you saw on github.

And to cap it all, this framework requires commercial licensing for closed source projects!

Just write an article about it :)

I think I'm missing the point. Why are all the reconstructed videos from the same angle? It would demonstrate it better if they repositioned the camera.

Even worse, it has a Boris Johnson icon in it.

This looks more like a list comprehensions library for Go than a LINQ library.

Actual LINQ is a lot more powerful.

And ASP.NET will now run everywhere too (that's one major chunk of this vNext stuff).

great if you pay for octopus

I don't know if there would be any point to Microsoft if they didn't NIH.

Any reason you can't just overwrite .animate and have existing code use it?

See also the pleasingly named Weasel Words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word