u/ErstwhileRockstar

3,658 post karma · 5,841 comment karma · joined Apr 2010

ErstwhileRockstar

TDD has proved to be a failure. You can stop promoting it.

ErstwhileRockstar

but the bar for in-demand skills keeps rising higher toward the senior level.

I wish it were true.

ErstwhileRockstar

Developers should abandon “Agile”

Developers have no power to do so. You do what they told ya.

ErstwhileRockstar

RAII would shine in languages like Java, C#, ... if it were implemented for dynamic (heap) objects. If for all (heap and stack) objects that become unreachable a destructor is called ... that would be incredibly powerful.

ErstwhileRockstar

Examples An example of an everyday device that has a state is a television set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(computer_science)

Most date is not state.

ErstwhileRockstar

nope

ErstwhileRockstar

The main differences between ECS and OOP are composition is a first class citizen in ECS, and that data is represented as plain data types rather than encapsulated classes.

OOP encapsulates state, not data.

ErstwhileRockstar

Go for Scrum Master if you are lazy!

ErstwhileRockstar

typo in link

ErstwhileRockstar

Always put the customer’s long-term needs ahead of your own short-term needs and you won’t go wrong.

Always put the customer’s long-term needs ahead of their own short-term needs and you won’t go wrong.

ErstwhileRockstar

Wow, 60 in 30. He must be a rockstar!

ErstwhileRockstar

Would you like to receive an instant callback now?

ErstwhileRockstar
ErstwhileRockstar

Your daily Spring spam.

ErstwhileRockstar

Today we are going to demystify regular expressions

It's rather de-obfuscation than demystification. REs are not hard to understand. But they have a syntax problem.

ErstwhileRockstar

Java: ... and protected and package visible.

BTW, I hardly ever use private methods in my code any more. Makes no sense.

ErstwhileRockstar

JUnit was introduced as simple and easy to use test utility. Now you need to 'migrate' from 4 to 5.

ErstwhileRockstar

Your daily Spring spam.

ErstwhileRockstar

There is no pointer to pointer to pointer problem that cannot be solved by a pointer to pointer to pointer to pointer.

ErstwhileRockstar

Of course, Java generics were a mistake. But this must not be spoken out. Even Ken Arnold's "Generics Considered Harmful" disappeared from the Internet.

ErstwhileRockstar

Agile or Waterfall

The first rule of propaganda: Create a false dichotomy.

ErstwhileRockstar

Mon dieu, it's in English!

ErstwhileRockstar

JSON:API is a specification for REST APIs.

I couldn't find the word REST in their specification.

ErstwhileRockstar

Agile is currently pushed hard from top managment, esp. in corporate environments. Developers will have to suffer Agile for some time before it collapses.

ErstwhileRockstar

This is, of course, made of faked data. Nobody conducted surveys and publised reliable data in that level of detail.