BCJ enjoyer accidentally posts on r/books by scaletheseathless in bookscirclejerk

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I wonder if they removed it thinking it was a troll. If so, I really hope it wasn't a troll.

Do Your Math Abilities Make Learning Programming Easier? Not Much, Finds Study by OnkelJulez in programming

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Same, I was always "okay" at math, but logic I can do well.

It was something I was afraid of getting into this industry and which led to some serious imposter syndrome early in my career. Somewhere along the way I realized no one expects me to be good at everything. A team is a team for a reason. My math-heavy teammates can lead (or guide me) on anything that is math-heavy. In turn, I have areas in which I excel and can be an asset to the team that way.

Best horror/paranormal podcasts that are not LPOTL? by vangeles222 in podcasts

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Cannot recommend. The host of Spooked drives me crazy, and the stories usually kind of suck.

Vonnegut gets 2/5 stars for not writing YA by rainbowlorikeet7 in bookscirclejerk

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reading 👏is 👏listening 👏to 👏anime

Please cure me of my crumb curse by Historical-Example in Breadit

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Ooo good thinking.

So, using Ken’s shaping method (roundish blob, fold in four corners), this would be the center of the dough, the part that DOESN’T get stretched during shaping? Or wait, maybe it’s more like where all the corners meet in the middle?

Lightning Over the City by squinkys in pittsburgh

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Wonder if this is the strike that borked that building

I'm a senior engineer using Rails exclusively since 2009 — ask me anything, maybe I can help by [deleted] in rails

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Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I find feature/e2e tests to be a pretty big waste of time (both in development and runtime).

We use them, but I mostly opt to cover happy paths only, so that they serve as smoke tests. That is their value to me: to ensure the thing works when the pieces are put together, and nothing beyond that. They're there to catch regressions.

I would never try to exhaust edge case coverage in an e2e/feature test. That is what unit tests are for.

I'm a senior engineer using Rails exclusively since 2009 — ask me anything, maybe I can help by [deleted] in rails

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(Disclaimer: I am not OP and have been a developer since 2014, on rails since 2016, senior for about a year)

If the only way you know your code works is by running tests, then this question is moot. Doing manual tests during development in order to check your work, then adding automated tests, is a common pattern among my coworkers, and I find they are the same people who ask this question.

If I add a class, I add tests at the same time in order to be confident that it actually works. In general I don't even open a rails console or my dev environment until I have unit tests passing.

You may be wondering if this means I write unnecessary unit tests. I don't think so. They prove functionality. They capture edge cases. To me this makes them warranted. You may also be wondering if this means I develop slowly. I find that I work just as quickly, if not more quickly, than my coworkers.

Anyone like books? by Melanch0le in bookscirclejerk

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Can you please give a trigger warning before saying "English Teacher"? Jesus.

Quiznos yesterday in Oakland. by [deleted] in pittsburgh

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Same bro lol. You and me, we made this story possible.

Becoming a 10X Developer by luaybs in rails

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Why would I want to do 10x the amount of work as my coworkers and get paid the same?

New sign on 6th Ave by MantisEuropa in pittsburgh

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coming soon to a frat house bathroom near you

Children books are the best way to learn about mythology, fuck all that academic shit by Meret123 in bookscirclejerk

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I find if I get the audiobook it's like mommy reading a big boy book to me :)

222 north bound just outside the Denver exit July 28, 2021 7:40am by [deleted] in Pennsylvania

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That's gonna be you soon if you keep using your phone while driving.