Youtube comments of Dean Schulze (@deanschulze3129).

  1. If your masters program includes a graduate assistant stipend you have found a job. The pay is low and the hours will be long, but it's better than being unemployed. In 1990 I was working on my PhD in physics, and the job market for PhD physicists collapsed when the cold war ended. There were hundreds of applicants for any postdoc position, and nothing in the private sector. In fact if you had a PhD in physics you were unemployable in the private sector and had to lie about not having a PhD in order to be considered at all. With no job prospects I procrastinated for a few more years because I still had my graduate research assistant stipend. I was able to move into software development because I had done so much programming for my graduate research. The mid 1990s were the best of times in software with the arrival of the internet, and the worst of times for PhD physicists. Take a graduate assistant position if you can get one.
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  2. The software industry is in the worst recession in over a decade. It's very hard for even senior devs to find a position. And forget finding an entry level position. Why is Dave Farley regurgitating this myth? I'd guess he's telling mangers what they want to hear. Management always wants the labor market skewed in their favor. What we have right now is a shortage of opportunity.
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  3. Before you consider moving to Washington be sure go there in the winter and experience the weather. Seattle has 8 months of continuous drizzle and gray skies.
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  4. Reality check, Shane. Right now the job market for programmers is terrible. Especially for entry level programmers with newly minted degrees. This sounds more like marketing material for higher education than a realistic look at career prospects for college grads.
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  5. I first heard 4-6 lines of code in my first programming class using Pascal over 40 years ago. Uncle Bob didn't create that.
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  6. Bret Stephens talks about Afghanistan as if there was a sliver lining to it, but ignores that it was a terrible failure of the US policing the world. He also seems to think that the Vietnam War was somehow justified. He invokes Pol Pot in Cambodia? We were never engaged officially in Cambodia, except for a brief period of time. Stephens thinks we should have stayed in Afghanistan and Vietnam. I would like to know how many of the people in Stephens circle of friends and work colleagues have children serving in the military.
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  7. Oh, Yes! Bono Called Cohen's Hallelujah the most perfect song ever.
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  8. I was surprised to see architecture as the degree with the highest unemployment rate. Architecture is one of the top 5 most difficult majors according to another one of Shane's videos, so I wouldn't expect an oversupply of people with that degree.
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  9. Prompt engineer is a term like domestic engineer or sanitation engineer.
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  10.  @zelim9514  Academia has always exploited graduate students, postdocs, and adjunct professors. Tenured professors can have a good career. The operative word is "can", not all do. The real winners in academia are administrators, like Vice Presidents of DEI.
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  11. I'm skeptical that Feynman's IQ was only 125. I've heard that IQ test was from when he was in high school. Physics faculties are full of geniuses with very high IQs and Feynman was the smartest of them all.
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  12. Carl makes a very important point at the 19:25 mark when he says that solving problems with software is the key to the software industry. Learn how to understand the business need and design a solution to the problem. Then implement it and make it work well. The ability to create solutions is what matters, not so much the tech that you choose to implement the solution.
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  13. The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) did advocate for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a communist society. That would require overthrowing the government whose responsibility it was to secure our rights to own private property.
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  14. They ended that policy over two decades ago. Compare that to Harvard which had systemic racism in admissions until the supreme court put an end to that this year. Ivy League schools practiced rampant antisemitism for much of the 20th century. Racism is endemic in higher education, especially antisemitism which has exploded since 10/7. The new name for racism is DEI.
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  15. Dave Ramsey believes that no one can use leverage responsibly. The key to building wealth is the responsible use of other people's money.
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  16. Muscle cars do, but I don't think that guy could fit into a muscle car comfortably. He probably drives a minivan with a front seat the moves way back.
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  17.  @inertiaforce7846  Did you use leverage (a mortgage)? Almost no one can pay cash for a house. I had to talk my son out of some of Dave Ramsey's foolishness. We bought a house in partnership. It's his starter house. He put no cash into it, just his realtor's commission (3% of the selling price). I agreed to give him half of the inflation and half of the mortgage paydown. After he'd been in the house for about a year he was considering selling his share to me. I asked where he got that idea from and it was from Ramsey. Ramsey says to have all your other bills paid off before buying a house. He wanted to sell his share to me and pay off other bills. Me and another friend told him it was a bad idea and he kept his interest in the house. Now after 4 years he has probably > $100k equity in the house that he put no cash into. Plus he gets a share of the cash flow and a management fee for keeping the rooms rented. Dave Ramsey would have talked him out of $100k plus his cash flow and fee. That house now also pays my mortgage (which includes the money I used for down payment and upgrades.) That's all due to refi at < 3% 30 year fixed. A confluence of events that probably won't happen again in my lifetime. Responsible use of leverage is the only way most people can build wealth.
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  18. "There's only so much stupidity that one man can stop." Andrew Marshall
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  19. The recruiter for one company that had hired Pivotal to setup their software development team called me. She mentioned the mandatory pair programming and mandatory hours and said that she couldn't find anyone who wanted to work under that regime. I told her that I would have to pass on it too.
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  20. I like Nicole's comments about how she found it to be very difficult to write software in a new company. This is usually due to bureaucratic restrictions put on developers by corporate IT. At one of my clients I was tasked with automating the creation of custom virtual machines on Azure. I did it first on my personal Azure account because I had no restrictions in my personal account and was done in a little over 2 hours. When I tried this on the corporate Azure account it took nearly 3 weeks and multiple calls to Azure support because of the restrictions corporate IT put on developers using Azure. We weren't allowed to create Resource Groups which led to piece meal removing of restrictions. It never worked with the restrictions corporate IT put on us.
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  21. Olivia Wilde is the one pedaling hate.
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  22. That's ignorant. Stalin, the head of an officially atheist state, murdered tens of millions of his own people. As did twentieth
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  23. Another advertisement from Dave for pair programming, but with a 13 minute introduction. What if members of your team have tried pairing and rejected it? You don't improve the culture by demanding that your highly intelligent, self-organizing people self-organize to do pair programming. One way to avoid toxic culture is to avoid consultants and "rock stars".
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  24.  @tonydecastro6340  - Why would Airbus want Boeing, or Spirit for that matter?
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  25.  @blender_wiki  - Tell that to the senior devs who can't find work.
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  26. Tubberville is blocking the promotion to flag rank of certain officers. He is not blocking anyone's security clearance. Officers who are being promoted to flag rank already have the security clearances that they need. Peter's just wrong about that.
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  27. You've missed the elephant in the room, Shane. Highest on the list are colleges that embrace fringe ideologies like critical race theory and other theories that create division and grievance. Any college with a professor in any department who would agree that "Math is whiteness" or that productivity is "white supremacy". Your list should be longer. It needs to include institutions like Evergreen State and Portland State to name just a couple of examples.
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  28.  @PhthaloJohnson  - What job do graduate students who are doing their PhD research have if graduate assistants don't exist any more?
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  29. Which Dave do you agree with, Dave Farley or Dave Thomas?
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  30.  @maxreaxx5387  - I suppose if your CS degree gets you a management position at Meta. Then you can refuse to hire any new grads for junior developer positions. And in 5 years you''ll be complaining that there are no mid-level developers.
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  31.  @inertiaforce7846  How would you buy your house, or would you remain a renter for life?
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  32.  @0xf7c8  - That's worth thinking about. In the move The Right Stuff there is a line where someone says that the Russians had German engineers working on their space program. Werner Von Braun responds "Our Germans are better than their Germans". That was then. I don't think I would want today's Germans. Asians are today's top performers.
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  33.  @cyan_oxy6734  - What policies would those be?
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  34.  @coolbreeze2213  - I disagree. It's the managers who incompetent and overpaid, not the workers.
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  35. The claim that "It [waterfall] never really works" is demonstrably false, and Dave Farley should check before making such sweeping judgements. This is from chatGPT (I know, I know but it's better than not checking at all): The waterfall methodology, although less popular today, has been used successfully in the development of various software projects in the past. Here are a few notable examples: 1. NASA's Apollo Space Program: The development of the software systems for the Apollo space missions followed a waterfall approach. Given the mission's critical nature, the project had a well-defined scope, clear requirements, and a sequential development process, ensuring each phase was completed before moving to the next. 2. Windows Operating System: In the early stages of Microsoft Windows development, the waterfall method was employed. The development process involved distinct phases, such as requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. Each phase had well-defined objectives and deliverables. 3. Banking and Financial Systems: Many banking and financial institutions have used the waterfall model for developing their software systems. Projects involving core banking systems, payment processing, or risk management systems often have a stable set of requirements and a linear development approach, making the waterfall method suitable. 4. Defense and Aerospace Projects: Various defense and aerospace projects have successfully utilized the waterfall methodology due to the stringent requirements and critical nature of the systems involved. These projects often have long development cycles, requiring thorough planning, design, and documentation before implementation. 5. Large-Scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: ERP systems like SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Microsoft Dynamics have been developed using the waterfall method. These projects involve complex business processes, extensive customization, and integration with multiple modules, which can benefit from a structured and sequential development approach.
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  36. Pair programming has to come with mandatory hours. I really wanted to work at one company that does real estate analytics because because I love real estate. Their recruiter was rather sheepish when explaining what their development team was like. She said that they had hired Pivotal to set up their software development group and Pivotal requires all of their developers to do pair programming and work mandatory hours of 10 AM - 6 PM. She said that she hadn't been able to find anyone who wanted to work under those conditions. I told her that I wouldn't be a good fit on that team either. Maybe Pivotal was being crazy like a fox by doing this. If they impose a regime that no one wants to work under that company would have no choice but to outsource their software development to Pivotal. Think about it. If pair programming, TDD, or any of the other fads being pushed by consultants worked significantly better than other practices then they would be widely adopted because the benefits would be clear.
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  37. Is the pilot seat an ejection seat? Flight test seems like it could be risky enough that they would need an ejection seat. What about autonomous flight control? Are the XB-1 or Overture going to be capable of autonomous flight?
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  38.  @nealorr5086  - But his larger point is that the US pays a disproportionate amount for NATO's defense. Germany, France, The Netherlands, etc. need to pay a fair share.
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  39. Very good point. Maybe the commercial electric grid should be number 2.
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  40. "Killing Me Softly" is really by Lori Lieberman. Roberta Flack took it to another level. The subject of the song is Don Maclean.
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  41.  @inertiaforce7846  I fully agree with that. But there's no substitute for responsible use of leverage and Ramsey thinks that no one can use leverage responsibly.
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  42.  @Greatdome99  - What has the 737 Max catastrophe done for shareholder value? Shareholder value depends on producing quality.
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  43.  @AleksandraSetsumei  - For a web app you would start by testing basic CRUD functionality on the endpoints. You would also have to write tests to verify that business logic is working properly. It's usually best to write these end-end tests in the same language you used to write application code in.
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  44. Spielberg deliberately omitted an important historical fact: Oskar Schindler was a Christian and his desire to save the Jews was motivated by his Christian beliefs. That is very typical of Hollywood's dishonesty about and prejudice towards Christians.
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  45.  @williamjarrell3541  - We may never be able to discern Schindler's motives, but leaving out his Catholic beliefs misleads. Another Christian (Lutheran) who took enormous personal risks to save Jews was Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat. Is it a coincidence that two of the greatest defenders of the Jews in Europe were Christians?
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  46. Did Peterson have an instrument rating? 711 hours is a significant amount of experience. More experience would not have helped if he did not have the proper training. There's also no mention if the plane was flying in icing conditions. A Bonanza would not be rated to fly in icing conditions.
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  47.  @greatestever8514  Mental health professionals love it. It creates lots of business for them treating people with seasonal depression :-).
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  48. Or perhaps consider that you might be biased.
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  49. You can't rely on developers testing their own code. If someone else hasn't used it, it doesn't work. I believe John Osterhout said that.
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  50. Not one word about the academic journal that published this fraud. Why did it take a graduate student to detect the fake data? What were the editors and referees doing? They need to be held accountable too. What excuses do the editor and referees make for their incompetence?
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  51. You obviously haven't been to Denver lately. It's disgrace. Crime, homelessness, drugs. And now immigrants have overwhelmed Denver's human services. Did I mention that Denver is a sanctuary city for immigrants? And Lafayette isn't close to Denver. It's in Boulder county.
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  52.  @ContinuousDelivery  - You are very fortunate if you can trust your team members so much that you don't review their code. That kind of trust is rare. The vast majority of teams use the trust but review approach.
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  53. Bingo. We need rigorous testing of the various ways of developing software to see which practices work, and which do not. No one has tested pair programming against solo programming. Controlling for all the variables would be challenging, but without such tests saying one practice is better than another is subjective. It's worth noting that agile consulting was born from a single failed project -- the C3 project at Chrysler in the late 1990s. But that team was the self-anointed best team in the history of software development so who are we to question them.
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  54. You could say the same thing about XP, Kanban, scrum, etc.
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  55. I have not found a LLM that can retrieve transactions from pdf bank or brokerage statements.
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  56. "test as you need to change things" That isn't TDD, though. TDD requires that you write the tests first. Maybe TDD should be less dogmatic.
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  57.  @samdg1234  - We are talking about the military, not domestic policing. You can be in favor of a policy without being personally involved, but you must be willing to bear part of the burden. Too many people want others to bear the burden while they enjoy the benefits while being insulated from any costs.
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  58. Another reason that pair programming is no substitute for code review is that in some organizations your code has to be reviewed by multiple developers. In some cases one of the reviewers has to be an architect.
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  59. So Kent Beck's version of waterfall is Market Research -> UX Design -> Software Development, and that is terribly wrong and sure to fail. What's the approach that is likely to work, then? Do you not do market research up front? Or is it the UX design up front that is the problem? I like the idea of updating market research while development is in progress, but this discussion was just lame. They don't say what the better way is.
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  60. When end users won't do the work to create good requirements up front then developers can use software iterations to hone in on what the requirements should be. Get feedback and iterate again. This approach may not be ideal but it works.
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  61. "Which brings me to the next question, if TDD is so irrefutably great and TDD has been around for quite some time, why hasn't it become the de facto developing method for most projects?" I've been asking that question for years and no one can answer it. Not Dave Farley, not Ron Jeffries, not Martin Fowler, not Bob Martin, not Kent Beck, not anyone.
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  62. Total CO2 recently passed the 400 ppm mark. The last time it was that high was 3 million years ago during the Pliocene. But the earth today is much cooler than it was last time CO2 levels were this high. From National Geographic: "The last time the concentration of Earth's main greenhouse gas reached this mark, horses and camels lived in the high Arctic." There is no reason to worry about the current CO2 level since we are so much cooler than last time. Add in the fact that we don't know what caused previous ice ages and you have to conclude that we don't understand how earth's climate works.
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  63. Not if you were being prosecuted for saying things you have a first amendment right to say. And not if the trial judge had declared you guilty before charges were brought against you. Why do you reject the idea of having an impartial judge? Jack Smith's successful prosecution of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell was thrown out unanimously by the supreme court because Smith Violated McDonnell's right to free speech. The same kind of thing is going on with this prosecution.
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  64. If the tests you wrote after writing the code didn't reveal any bugs then your tests were terrible. The most vital type of testing is system level tests which not only test your application code but the infrastructure and integration points as well.
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  65. You will probably also have to do load testing to verify scalability, but often this is ignored until you run into performance problems in production.
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  66. How do they supply the site with water? Are there wells or do they have to truck the water in and store it?
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  67.  @McGrigorNZ  - We keep hoping that Dave will break out of his cocoon.
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  68. Software development today includes provisioning cloud resources with terraform or some other IAC software. How would you TDD cloud infrastructure, for example a simple real-time data pipeline with kinesis, lambda, and SQS? Or is TDD irrelevant for provisioning cloud resources?
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  69. He's a Marine. The first US Marine to serve as vice president or president.
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  70. A blogger for Scientific American said of the simulation hypothesis 'It isn't science. It's a stoner thought experiment.' The most apt description I've ever heard.
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  71. My son went to a coding bootcamp and it has worked out very well for him. He had maxed out what he could make working as a transaction manager in real estate and wanted to get into software development. After taking an entry level position he got a promotion and then took a job working for the company that writes software for the Multiple Listing Service that realtors use. It is a good combination of his real estate and software skills. He's glad he made the switch and a coding bootcamp enabled him to do that. Dorian, if you think coding bootcamps are bad what do you think of the 4-5 years it takes to get a bachelors in CS? Or any other degree for that matter.
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  72. That was cold war policy. The world has changed and we are playing catch up.
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  73. Why do you accept this article and the curve as Gospel Truth? The author doesn't claim that the curve is based on anything. It seems that he just made it up. And no one should believe it without seeing the underlying data. Data, please.
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  74. There is no evidence that TDD works better than anything else. He won't admit this, however. Where are the metrics to back up his claims? After 25 years there should be metrics or at least examples of TDDs superiority. He claims that TDD is a design strategy that results in code that is more testable. But he doesn't even mention other aspects of design: cohesion coupling scalability maintainability intuitive design and APIs It's a mistake to ignore these and just focus on testability, which is what TDD advocates do.
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  75. I don't think that is a good analogy. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance. Corporate bureaucracy is a huge pain point and removing it would bring a lot of relief.
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  76.  @QmunkE  - Software iterations are a good way to resolve these kinds of ambiguities. Make your best estimate of what the end users want and implement. Show it to them and get feedback. Repeat. TDD would definitely show you down in this case. Very little of your original code will survive so there's no reason to test it thoroughly at first.
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  77. How did Portland, OR not make the list? Maybe suicides don't count.
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  78. "10% - 30% of the population doesn't pay taxes but can still vote." That sounds like welfare recipients in the US. And it wasn't Matt Gaetz who got McCarthy fired. The Democrats fired McCarthy. Every Democrat voted to fire McCarthy. 8 Republicans voted to fire McCarthy. Give credit and blame where it is due. The Democrats are why the House of Representatives isn't working right now.
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  79.  @Ymirheim  - I've worked with some very good "technical architects" who did not write code. They were very good at system design and going from business needs to requirements to a system design to support a solution. They relied on others to implement the solution in code. If you don't want to call them engineers, well "A rose by another name..." Do you consider Javascript coders or Python coders to be engineers? Their knowledge of code isn't as deep as someone who writes C or assembler.
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  80.  @ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT  - What is your estimate for the software industry world wide of how many teams actually do pair programming? In my career of nearly three decades I only know of two.
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  81. The best comment by far. You cut right to heart of the issue.
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  82. I've started listening to Douglas Murray's book On Democracies and Death Cults. The first two chapters are long and describe in sickening detail the horrors of the invasion of Israel by Hamas on October 7. It's depressing and hard to listen to. I'm taking a break and will pick up with Chapter 3.
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  83. You must care or you wouldn't be here.
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  84. So the original Twitter that was infected by Russian bots. They never cleaned them up until Russia invaded Ukraine. The original Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story but allowed all kinds of disinformation about Russia collusion. That leaves me wondering why you spent your time on Twitter back then?
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  85. Good point. It would be a judgement call when to create a feature branch. Like a surgeon deciding which procedure to use in a particular case. Unfortunately, too many mangers and architects aren't willing to let their developers make that call.
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  86.  @ForgottenKnight1  - I said it was unfortunate that managers are not willing to let their developers make that call. It would be better if managers would let their devs make that call.
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  87. A non-dogmatic approach would be to say that you don't have any metrics showing that TDD or pair programming works better than anything else. They work well for your team because you hired developers who want to work that way. If TDD and pair programming worked better than the alternatives then after two decades there would be strong evidence for that. But there really aren't any metrics showing TDD and pair programming are superior. Dave is right when he says that arguments from authority aren't sound. So why does he use Carl Sagan as an authority? At 8:33 he says "...the necessity of having a model of why A works better than B that allows you to compare it to the alternatives." Models need to be tested, though. When did you test the different practices of software development against each other controlling for all the variables? It's ironic that an advocate for test driven development ignores the need to test the practice he advocates against alternatives. Dave cites SpaceX as an example of the success of TDD. But the flight control software for the space shuttle was written using waterfall. Why did he leave that out? These two examples show that very different practices can succeed in producing large, complex software systems. Neither is a reason why anyone should adopt those processes, however. This is a kind of argument from authority: 'SpaceX uses TDD so should you' https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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  88.  @ContinuousDelivery  - Ummm, that's what I wrote. SpaceX was written with TDD and the space shuttle was written with waterfall. Unless you're objecting that I left out Trunk Based Development. TDD and Trunk Based Development are two different things. You still need to come to grips with the fact that waterfall has produced a lot of very good software.
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  89.  @ContinuousDelivery  - And that lack of good data is the real problem. Given the importance of software development to the global economy we really need good data. Not data on student projects, but data on real projects done by experienced developers. What is needed are controlled experiments on real-world projects using professional developers. That would give us reliable data. No one is even talking about doing realistic experiments on this scale, however. But we need them.
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  90.  @jlou888  - Waterfall has always had feedback and iterations, but they are considerably longer than typical agile iterations would be. Waterfall was really a straw man setup by Winston Royce to illustrate a point. I've never worked on a classic waterfall project (though I've been told they actually exist). I have worked on a lot of projects that were code-and-fix or that had some big design up front. I think the key difference between BDUF and being agile is that with agile your up front planning and design is minimal so it is easy to leave it behind. If people put a lot of effort up front it's more difficult to leave it behind and change what you will deliver.
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  91.  @PatrikKron  - That rings true. I've also found pairing to be useful when you encounter something new or some convoluted legacy code. Or when you just need another set of eyes on your code. That kind of common sense approach is missing from what consultants are selling.
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  92.  @Ashton666  Of course I expect professionals to do what is best for their companies and their customers. Why don't you expect that? You couldn't even offer a speculative answer to my question so you resort to the nonsense that my question is the answer to my question. That is the kind of drivel I see often from TDD fanboys.
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  93. Stackoverflow has become pretty irrelevant. They've been rejecting realistic questions for years. They only allow simple, FAQ type questions and even then they reject some of those.
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  94. A couple of subtle but important points. Gravity does not bend space-time. Mass bends the fabric of space-time and the distortion is what we call gravity. I believe that Eddington's confirmation of general relativity was based on a field of stars in the background of the sun during a solar eclipse, not on only one star.
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  95.  @lemax6865  - Calling facts misinformation is the hallmark of a propagandist.
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  96.  @parttimehuman  - Look at the data. Also consider how the climate models have had to change because CO2 is much less of a driver of warming than previously thought. I give them credit for making those changes to their climate models. We need to be honest about how much we don't know about climate.
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  97. Which president didn't hire people loyal to him?
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  98. The Chamber of Commerce is crony capitalism aka crapitalism.
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  99.  @leesoftwareengineer  - Unit tests are coupled to the implementation at the function/method level. That's why they are unit tests instead of integration level tests.
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  100.  @TonyWhitley  - When has TDD ever required higher level testing like integration testing? It's always been about JUnit level testing.
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  101.  @jprince1993  - Testing the public APIs is vital. It makes much more sense than exhaustive testing at the method level. I've never seen a TDD advocate say that testing should be at the public API level, however. It's always JUnits at the method level.
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  102. If you're going to put Bob Jones on the list because of a policy they ended over two decades age you should look at the racism that is embedded throughout US universities today. It goes by the name DEI. The supreme court just ended Harvard's systemic racism earlier this year. Antisemitism on campus has exploded since 10/7. But you mention Bob Jones dating policy from over two decades ago. You missed the elephant on campus.
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  103. I'd like to see him and former Marine General and SecDef James Mattis do a podcast together. Call it the No Punches Pulled podcast.
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  104. The institutions that created the nonsense research and admin bloat will not cut those things no matter how long you give them. Might as well cut those things now.
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  105. Rebase is not as clean as this video show it to be. Rebase can have conflicts just like merge can. Resolving those conflicts is where problems usually arise.
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  106. "It's really easy to complain, and it's another thing to actually do something about it." That should be the subtitle for this video. The "problem" is that skiing has become more popular. That leads to longer lift lines and to higher prices. Another video points out that there hasn't been a new ski resort built in the US in 45 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPG9mo9D3Fw Why wasn't that mentioned in this video? Increased demand leads to higher prices and long lift lines if there is no new supply. Duh. Could that be because of regulations and restrictions on the use of public lands? How about looking at this aspect of the problem instead of just complaining?
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  107. What was the physics book from circa 1865 that Ida gave to Enrico that lit his fire for physics? A treatise from Maxwell Or Boltzman?
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  108.  @kathyyoung1774  - I have a graduate degree in physics, which Shane considers the most difficult undergrad degree, so I know about difficult course work. Those are all challenging courses of study. The thing that made architecture difficult (according to Shane) is that architecture combines engineering with art. How many chemists, doctors, or engineers are good artists as well?
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  109. There are a lot of mediocre keyboard parts in this list. Numbers 4 - 11 are all mediocre. As is Strawberry Fields. The Beatles made a lot of great music but there is nothing special about the keyboard in Strawberry Fields. Any classical pianist puts this entire list to shame.
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  110.  @francis_n  - I think you're correct. But declarative code is a critical part of software development and it evolves with the project application code. Cloud infrastructure need to be thoroughly tested too. We've always had declarative code in code bases, like maven pom.xml.
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  111.  @ForgottenKnight1  - I've yet to see a TDD consultant apply TDD to provisioning cloud resources or other infrastructure. Dave has another YouTube video where he says you shouldn't do integration tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCHSEHgqFE
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  112.  @jaymason7097  - Yes. He's sucking up to the managers who are his potential customers.
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  113. From watching the video the ground speed seems pretty high. Probably due to no flare.
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  114.  @13b78rug5h  - When you say "I would never think of doing anything else" you give yourself away as closed minded.
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  115. I've run into this problem multiple times. The end user doesn't know what they want. They have a general idea but haven't thought through to completion what it is they want built. That's where agile requirements come in. As developers we make our best guess what the customer wants and build a prototype quickly. Get feedback and iterate again. Software iterations can drive out ambiguities in requirements. You don't have to determine everything up front. Ambiguities can open up opportunities that you couldn't see earlier in the process. Ambiguity isn't always a bad thing.
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  116. The drum intro I thought of first was Hawaii Five O by the Ventures. Maybe it's too short to be considered an intro for this list. Once when I played it a cat was sleeping in front of the speaker. You should have seen her jump and run when that drum roll started :-).
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  117. "...in exchange for new capabilities" Where are these "new capabilities"? David Berger's vision was to use small, fast landing craft that are invisible to radar to land Marines on islands in the South China Sea where they would use drones and hypersonic missiles to sink Chinese ships. Then they would quickly move to avoid retaliatory strikes. That sounds good, but these landing craft that are invisible to radar don't exist. Berger's vision is little more than a dream because it relies on the Navy to procure these hypothetical landing craft. And Berger gives up his tanks and most of his artillery for this vapor. The Marines are so under equipped that with their existing landing craft they couldn't even participate in a humanitarian mission to Turkey. That's what happens when the Marines rely on the Navy for their landing craft. The Navy just doesn't care about the Marines priorities., The M-LRPSM that you are so enthusiastic about won't exist for years if it is ever built. And what happens if our next conflict is not with China? The Marines will be irrelevant.
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  118. No. The fact is that there was a network of spies operating at the highest levels of the Manhattan Project and they gave the secrets to the atomic bomb to the Soviets. The government was correct to revoke his security clearance. Oppenheimer lived out his life as head of the most prestigious lab in the world at Princeton.
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  119. I'm going way back here, but J.S. Bach wrote Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring which was translated into English by poet laureate Robert Bridges and performed by so many. Celtic Woman and Apollos 100 are just a couple examples.
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  120. The words "separation", "church", and "state" do not appear anywhere in the constitution. The US constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;". Earlier this year the supreme court struck down the "Blaine amendments" that most states had enshrining religious discrimination in their state constitutions. That 19th century bigotry is what many people mean by "separation of church and state", but it violates the clear text of the constitution. It is the free exercise guarantee of the first amendment that prohibits this kind of thing in the US today. Free exercise is critical to our freedoms. Not a misguided metaphor.
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  121.  @Kaiserbill99  - There are a lot more secular nut cases in action in the US today than there are Christian nut cases though.
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  122.  @tilesetter1953  - I'll go slow so you can follow. When a government guarantees free exercise of religion it can't oppress people for exercising their religion. Can you understand that?
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  123.  @tilesetter1953  - This thread was about "separation of church and state" so if you wanted to change the context from government persecution to sects persecuting each other you should have made that clear. Religious discrimination by private groups is also illegal under our civil rights laws, which build in the first amendment.
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  124. This is propaganda and Andy Kunz is spreading conspiracy theories. Street cars are not high speed rail. High speed rail is for long distance travel, not commuting to work from the suburbs. High speed rail competes with air travel for medium and long distances. There is no mention as to how high speed rail would compare to air travel. Freeways aren't the reason why we don't have high speed rail. European countries with high speed rail have freeways too. Germany's autobahn was the motivation for the US interstate system. There was no mention of the losses incurred by passenger rail lines around the world. The last data I've seen showed that there are only 2 profitable commuter rail lines in the world: Paris to Lion and Osaka to Tokyo. The rest require subsidies. They mentioned the Acela line. How much money does the Acela line lose? California is showing what a boondoggle high speed rail is. It's dishonest to ignore the enormous cost overruns. Bakersfiled to Merced? How many people would use it? The private sector initiatives in Texas and Florida are interesting. Let's see how they do. Riding on a train has to be more comfortable than being crammed into an airplane. Maybe they can show California how to do high speed rail.
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  125. If AI tools get Dave to give up his demand that everyone has to do pair programming with TDD then it will be beneficial.
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  126. I was surprised that they didn't mention Robert Gordon's book "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" when they were talking about the hockey stick curve of economic growth. There are two reasons why economic growth took off during the late 1800s. The two biggest drivers were the internal combustion engine and the electric grid. Our economic growth started declining in the 1970s and now even an economic "recovery" can't even get back to our historic norm of 3% GDP growth per year. This year may be an exception due to the pandemic and the vaccine-driven recovery, but in normal times our economic growth is declining. Gordon is skeptical that we will ever see sustained economic growth like we saw from the 1870s to the 1970s again. Some of the drivers were one time events. Education levels rising from the 8th grade level to the college level. Women entering the work force. These are things that can't be repeated. There are no innovations happening today with the power to drive economic growth like the internal combustion engine or the electric grid did. There's nothing like those on the horizon. Sure there are technological and biotech miracles happening frequently, like the COVID vaccine, but nothing with the power to move the needle on the entire economy. We may soon find ourselves in a world of 1 percent average economic growth. Nearly a zero sum game. Not bad, but not what we had for a century.
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  127. So 16 minutes into the video we see that this is a plug for pair programming. Where is the evidence that TDD (with unit tests) works at all when creating distributed systems? Distributed systems need to be tested, but they need to be tested when deployed like they will be in production. Testing the integration is crucial in distributed systems. I'd love to see some metrics on development methodologies for distributed systems.
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  128. How did "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens not make this list? It's acapella.
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  129. I agree with your sentiment. However, scientists created the weapons of mass destruction we have. Look up Fritz Haber. He was a Nobel prize winning chemist who created the Haber-Bosch process for creating chemical fertilizer which is necessary to feed our population. He also created chemical warfare using chlorine gas to kill on a mass scale in the trenches of World War I. Science is fascinating, but we are still human with all the goodness and evil that includes.
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  130. Good points here, but the title is pretty misleading. This is really about gatekeeping and how management sometimes prevents improvement.
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  131.  @roccociccone597  - We have way too many consultants in software that tout things that supposedly improve your productivity but have no data to back up their claims. TDD, pair programming, the whole agile song and dance. We shouldn't accept any claims without solid data.
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  132. And yet Bari and her colleagues at the Free Press and NYT continue to support the party that supports Iran. Iran is why Hamas invaded Israel, and the Democrats enable Iran. Speeches won't stop anti-semitism. We have to vote Iran's enablers out of power and keep them out of power.
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  133.  @jimandmandy  - I was working at the McDonnell-Douglas factory in Long Beach when Lockheed cancelled the L10-11. Both companies stock price jumped on the news.
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  134. Dave Farley wants mandatory pair programming to replace pull requests. There are a couple of immediate problems with this. Some teams require that two (or more) developers approve a PR. What would Dave do in this case? Triple programming? Some teams require that an architect approve all PRs. In order to do what Dave wants you would have to have an architect on each pair. Your team would be half developers and half architects. The unspoken fact in Dave's approach is that you can't require multiple approvals of code and you can't require that an architect approve code changes.
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  135. If architects must code do they have to do pair programming? That's Dave's agenda. If pair programming is beneficial, why not require pair architecture too?
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  136. Lemaitre was both priest and astrophysicist.
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  137. Yes, along with the devops code in Terraform or Pulumi.
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  138. For all of her bluster she is just regurgitating the climate catastrophe agenda. Here are some facts, Sabine. The data shows that over the past 140 years the annualized average surface temperature has increase by about 1 degree C. During that time human health and life span has increased dramatically. What opinions should we form from those facts?
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  139.  @nandomax3  - Good joke, and good point. Test later does not use tests to drive design, which is the point of TDD. The shortcoming of TDD as a design methodology is that TDD is one dimensional. There are other aspects to design such as low coupling, high cohesion, scalability, reliability, etc. which TDD does nothing for.
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  140.  @jangohemmes352  - Please explain how unit testing the various functions in a microservice makes the entire service scalable.
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  141. As of September, 2023 the median sales price of housing in Big Sky was $1.79 million. Your $3.5 million price for the average listing is exaggerated. Higher priced homes skew the average giving a distorted result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmG9fIxYRQ&t=280s This video is highly biased. It's really a class warfare video.
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  142. The idea that predictability is bad because we are going to learn so much so fast that our velocity will increase a lot during the course of the project is just fantasy. That might be true for new grads figuring out how to use source control, or for teams made up of developers who don't have any experience in the tech stack they are using. But not for teams with senior developers and architects.
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  143. Is there a reason why you didn't put the stream <- fn() into the default: in the select? It would be more intuitive there.
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  144.  @kantancoding  - Good point about fn() returning a <-chan and potentially blocking. Select will block if no case statement can proceed and there is no default statement. An empty default statement would turn that for-select into a spin loop. It's worth discussing (maybe in a video) when it's better to have for-select block as opposed to having for-select become a spin loop. Would a blocked for-select be more efficient than a spin loop from an empty default? Both would have to continue checking the case statements.
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  145.  @dafyddrees2287  Yes, corporate bureaucracy makes the C levels feel comfortable while trusting their engineers is just unthinkable to them. Like a life without cigarettes is unthinkable for a nicotine addict. So in that sense the analogy works.
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  146.  @martincerny3294  - Good analogy.
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  147.  @JordanEdmundsEECS  - I appreciate your insights onto the difficulties of testing UIs. But have you ever written a backend that was a distributed system? Unit tests are worthless on distributed systems. You need to test the entire system as it will be deployed in production.
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  148. That kind of thing happens all the time.
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  149. Yes. The other factor is that supply chains were broken by COVID and it took time to get them moving again. The US government juiced demand by pumping money into the economy while the supply chain was broken and couldn't respond. Increasing demand when supply couldn't keep up led to inflation. Duh.
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  150. If eliminating religion (dogma) was helpful then why did Mao, who banned religion, kill tens of millions of his own people? You can add Stalin to that list. Sam Harris is too dishonest to admit that his solution has been tried and failed with disastrous consequences.
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  151.  @talideon  - Pivotal need to hear that. They seem to demand 100% pairing. I've been "pair programming" quite a bit lately since I'm learning a proprietary Angular framework. It has a long learning curve. One hour a day or so of screen sharing is typical. I've also found that I need to think things through on my own before I have really learned a new API. Listening to someone else talk me through it is OK for an introduction, but I have to work with it myself to really learn an API. Having to recall things from memory is an essential step in cognition.
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  152. So we should change our zoning laws to support public transportation. High density housing everywhere with no regard for quality of life. People live in the suburbs because we want to have a real back yard, parks, and open space. But these experts want the public transportation system to be our masters rather than something built to serve us. We should ruin suburban living to support the all-important public transportation system.
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  153.  @tubz  - We are closer than you realize to being forced to change our lifestyles. This year the Colorado legislature narrowly defeated proposal backed by governor Polis to "Up-zone" the entire state. Zoning laws would be made at the state level with the goal of increasing population densities, especially in suburbs. The state would have done away with single family zoning in many urban and suburban areas allowing anyone to turn their single family house into a duplex or triplex and build separate dwellings in their back yards. Suburbs in the Denver area have already built high-density townhomes (CrackerJack box buildings) near light rail stops in order to make the light rail feasible.
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  154. Partitioned data has its downside. When you denormalize data and a microservice updates its data any other copies of that data in other microservices also need to be updated as well. This means eventual consistency. There are several ways to handle the data consistency problem, but they all add complexity and end up coupling the services at some level.
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  155. 4:50 Why didn't they rollback the change? Rollout the FIX just as quickly? Oh my. The patch leaves the system with a BSOD. You can't rollback from a BSOD. That requires manual intervention. Dave sounds like the Joe Biden of software.
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  156. You need integration tests if your code integrates with another application. Unit tests are almost worthless when writing a distributed system.
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  157. Pierre Poilievre is no nonsense and gets right to the point. Hey, Canada. If you don't want him as your leader send him to the US. We could use him as Treasury Secretary or some other important position.
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  158. But those baristas have college degrees in grievance studies paid for with government student loans they can't pay off. Don't underestimate them.
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  159.  @StudentLoanJustice  - Uh, no. I should have added /sarc for you. I fully agree that colleges are scamming students to take out loans for their worthless degrees. Colleges need to be held partly responsible when their graduates can't pay those loans.
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  160. Farley starts out by saying that feature branches are bad. Everyone should commit to the same branch (the trunk). I can see some benefit to that. It may reduce merge conflicts. But then he goes from talking about the problems with pull requests to advocating pair programming. If pair programming is as beneficial as he claims it would be widely used. That goes for the other fads that consultants push, like TDD. Uncle Bob Martin used to go around saying the TDD would become the minimum standard for professional conduct in software engineering. He likened it to surgery with and without anesthetic. Maybe you've notice that uncle Bob hasn't been as vocal about TDD defining the boundary between professionals and amateurs. That change happened when I called him out on one online forum and asked him point blank if he considered Linus Torvalds and Peter Norvig to be amateurs because they didn't practice TDD. The dirty, unspoken secret of pair programming is that it comes with mandatory hours. There's a company that does real estate analytics that I really wanted to work for because I love real estate. Their recruiter called me and told me, with resignation, that they had hired Pivotal to setup their software development process and Pivotal had mandated PP with mandatory hours of 10 - 6. She said that she had not been able to hire any developers who wanted to work under that regime. I told her that I wouldn't be a good fit for that regime either. Now maybe Pivotal was being crazy like a fox. They dictated a regime that no one wanted to work under, so this company would be left with no other choice but to outsource their software development. Maybe to a company like Pivotal. Maybe there are problems with PRs, but there are much bigger problems with PP. And PP advocates don't want to discuss them publicly.
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  161.  @Macknull  Do you have any data to back up your claims that the results for studies done on students are also true for senior devs?
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  162.  @kasperstergaard1592  OK, but trunk-based development doesn't mean pair programming. One way of doing development is that everyone commits to trunk and branches are for releases.
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  163. Learning to code does not make someone an engineer. Engineers know how to understand and solve a problem. They know how to do architecture and design. They know how to make systems that scale and are robust. In the near future engineers will be using AI to do the rote part of their job while they concentrate one level above the code to create a system that solves a problem.
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  164.  @christianf7740  - That's a sweeping generalization. When you use the word "always" it only takes a single example to prove you wrong. I've worked with good architects who don't know how to code at all. They don't have to in order to be a good architect. And I've also worked with software architects whose code was crap. They couldn't pass an undergrad course in software development because their code was so bad.
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  165.  @malcorub  - It's one thing to offer one non-required course covering fringe ideologies. It's quite another to embrace it and force it on students. The entire genre of "critical theory" fields were created by academia and are now being pushed by academia. We should hold academia accountable for the damage it does.
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  166. How is the Biden/Harris administration going to respond to this? Can VP Cackles even find the Black Sea on a map?
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  167. Young people in the west want to move to NYC???? I have never heard of a young person in Colorado who wants to move to NYC. Sounds like she is living in an echo chamber.
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  168.  @CatherineIves  - That's very true. But learning physics at the graduate level is still worthwhile. Just go into it with realistic expectations. You may end up working in a field that does not require a MS physics, and if you go into academia you'll be part of the money chase and paper mill.
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  169. What planet are you living on? US STEM graduates can't get jobs. It's a staple of pro-management propaganda that there aren't enough engineers. Managers say this while they are downsizing their own engineers. What we have is a lack of opportunity for people with STEM degrees. Many STEM graduates would be better off getting non-STEM degrees, like going to business school. Who is this guy? He's making blatantly false claims about the career prospects of STEM graduates.
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  170. Good point. It's ironic that he mentions that when earlier this year the supreme court put an end to Harvard's systemic racism. And since 10/7 we've seen a tidal wave of anitsemitism on campus. Racism is endemic at US universities. It goes under the name DEI.
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  171.  @BernardMcCarty  That test was done using college students, not senior developers so it's pretty much worthless. Also it was a one week project that was part of a course so it was very artificial. I've not seen a realistic test protocol that controls for all the variables of software development, let alone a realistic test.
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  172. Peter's analysis relies too much on extrapolating the present into the future. The Germans, like people everywhere, will adapt to changing circumstances. Remember when Russia shut off natural gas to Germany? People were saying that Germans would freeze the next winter, but that didn't happen. Within 6 months the Germans had built LNG terminals and natural gas pipelines that normally would have taken years to build.. They suspended environmental regulations and worked around the clock. That is what highly educated and skilled workforces do. It's hard to predict how people will adapt to changing economic circumstances, but you can be sure that Germany will adapt.
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  173. Mahmood Mamdani is disingenuous when he says that there hasn't been a rise in anitsemitism. His claim that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism is a smoke screen for the outburst of Jew hatred. Trapping Jewish students inside Cooper Union puts the lie to the idea that what he supports isn't Jew hatred.
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  174. Or how about if TDD advocates started explaining TDD properly instead of just complaining that all explanations are wrong. Unit tests are worthless in a distributed system. You need to test the entire system deployed the way it will be deployed in production. I've yet to hear a TDD advocate explain how to TDD a distributed system. They can't seem to get past unit testing.
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  175. I wish this lasted for an hour.
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  176. This video touches on what software development has become in the last decade. You have application code. You have IAC code in Terraform, Cloudfromation, Pulumi, etc. You have pipeline code in github actions, etc. What does this mean for TDD? I'd like to hear how you would TDD your way to a realistic cloud application, for example a real-time data pipeline in one of the clouds. Is TDD even relevant for provisioning resources in the cloud?
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  177. This lawyer (Mr. Olson) is a dancing hypocrite.
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  178. JWST will collect 1 photon per second in the IR from its desired IR source. But there are many bright IR sources in the sky. How will JSWT avoid being overloaded by these other IR sources (stars)?
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  179. There's an elephant in the room that we need to include: Consciousness. None of your simulations involve consciousness. We don't even have an agreed upon definition of consciousness. This is just imaginings run wild.
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  180. I believe that was Eisenhower. What is less known and even more important is that in the same speech Eisenhower warned of the dangers of a technological elite who could manipulate and exert undue influence over the people. That is where the threat comes from today, for example with Google manipulating search results to favor a candidate or a news media that has become a propaganda organ.
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  181. I've found Thomas Nield's courses on OReilly to be very good for learning Python. He teaches python instead of just Jupyter notebooks. Too many "Python" courses are just Jupyter notebooks.
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  182. Unit tests are worthless in a distributed system. That should be pretty obvious.
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  183.  @ContinuousDelivery  - Can we see links for those small scale experiments? I never said there was data for any approach. That's the problem, and no one should go around saying their preferred software practices are supported by data. Your preferred practices are pair programming, TDD, and trunk-based development, correct? Any other practices to your methodology?
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  184. Dave, I finally got a chance to look at these. Your first two links are 404s. Your third link say just the opposite of what you claim: "Results: TDD novices achieve a slightly higher code quality with iterative test-last development (i.e., ITL, the reverse approach of TDD) than with TDD. ... The quality-related performance of professionals using TDD drops more than for students." You previously asked me where the data is that shows that TDD is inferior. Ironically you provided that data. Why can't you be honest about this?
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  185. Americans don't want a state that would elect Justin Trudeau. We could probably work out some trades, however. How about Detroit for Vancourver, BC?
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  186. Very good advice. There are probably a lot of mediocre managers at mediocre companies hoping that their software developers don't hear your advice.
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  187.  @nealorr5086  - Oh, I didn't know I committed a mortal sin by criticizing Saint Brett Stephens. My last statement is a very relevant question. If Stephens, et. al. want the US to police the world they should bear some of the burden. If not themselves their immediate families should be personally involved. James Kirchik invoked World War II as an example of the US policing the world. During WWII we had a universal draft. There was mass volunterism. President Roosevelt's nephew landed in Normandy on D-Day. There were many celebrities like Jimmy Stewart who served in dangerous combat roles. The rich and famous were not insulated from the war. Compare that to today. How many children of the rich and famous serve in the military? How many of Kirchik's children or Stephens children have served? I'm not saying I'm against using the US military to deter war and tragedy. But the burden should be wide spread. Especially to policy makers and pundits.
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  188.  @nealorr5086  - Oh, I didn't know I committed a mortal sin by criticizing Saint Brett Stephens. My last statement is a very relevant question. If Stephens, et. al. want the US to police the world they should bear some of the burden. If not themselves their immediate families should be personally involved. James Kirchik invoked World War II as an example of the US policing the world. During WWII we had a universal draft. There was mass volunterism. President Roosevelt's nephew landed in Normandy on D-Day. There were many celebrities like Jimmy Stewart who served in dangerous combat roles. The rich and famous were not insulated from the war. Compare that to today. How many children of the rich and famous serve in the military? How many of Kirchik's children or Stephens children have served? I'm not saying I'm against using the US military to deter war and tragedy. But the burden should be wide spread. Especially to policy makers and pundits. [Reposting this since it seems to have gotten lost]
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  189.  @ComradeOgilvy1984  - I don't think the Wright Brothers is a good analogy for software development. They had to create the field of aerodynamics while they were creating powered flight. They created the first wind tunnel. They did a lot of work on internal combustion engines getting a high power to weight ratio. They had their own engine builder. That would be like developers having to create their own language and compiler while they were creating their application.
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  190. What is the second song that was a big hit that was in F minor?
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  191. I'm very surprised that as an astrophysicist that Brian Greene hasn't thought about the religious beliefs some of the giants in astrophysics: Georges Lemaitre and Arthur Eddington. This discussion would have been much better if he had thought about those two men and how they excelled in science and were devout believers.
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  192. So Sabine says that increased plant life from changing climate is misinformation. But plant life can benefit from changes in climate and Sabine is the one who is in denial.
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  193. I got number 1 right when I first started listening to this video. Does anyone know who created music notation?
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  194. I forget where I heard this, but prior to Edison's invention of the phonograph the sound of a human voice had never been preserved. Sound was transitory. You could hear it once, but you could never hear it again. That's hard for us to comprehend.
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  195. So the More Perfect Union wants to raise the taxes on short term rentals. That is changing the rules in the middle of the game. That would bankrupt many middle class families who own a short term rental. They would hurt the very people they claim to want to help.
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  196.  @TopherSelleck  AirBnBs are often owned by working families as an investment. Changing the rules in the middle of the game by raising taxes on them is unfair and would cause big losses for those owners who have acted in good faith all along.
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  197.  @TopherSelleck  - You're painting with a broad brush. It's patently unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game.
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  198. I don't know why people are praising the pilots. Here is what the NTSB concluded: The final report by the NTSB found the probable cause of the accident was the pilot's "inability to maintain directional control of the airplane due to his application of excessive reverse thrust, which degraded the effectiveness of the rudder in controlling the airplane's heading."[
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  199. There is another obvious alternative: The canard configuration. In a canard configuration the horizontal stabilizer is in front and it provides lift to stabilize the aircraft instead of negative lift as shown when the horizontal stabilizer is in the back. The Beechcraft Starship from the mid 1980s was a commercial canard configuration airplane. I understand there are also stability challenges with a canard configuration, but it would preserve the tube and eliminate many pressure cycle related problems.
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  200.  @senseisecurityschool9337  - If you buy negative cash flows you are certainly gambling on inflation in rents or property values to bail you out. If you have residential mortgages instead of commercial mortgages your loan can't be called unless you are in default. As long as you have cash flow sufficient to service your debt the bottom will not fall out on you. My guess is that Dave was using business loans for his business and those can be called any time.
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  201.  @Holy_hand-grenade  - The key to building wealth is the responsible use of other people's money. Unfortunately Dave Ramsey thinks that no one can use debt responsibly.
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  202.  @hokie9910  - OK, but do you understand how to use leverage responsibly? Most people have no chance to join the middle class let alone become financially independent if they don't use leverage.
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  203. "Biden knows all of this". Want to bet? Others in the Biden administration may know it all, but Joe probably couldn't spell Gaza. And there are lots of us who like Netanyahu. If he had been born in the US I'd vote for him for president.
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  204. Studies based on students are worthless on professional teams where developers typically have 5+ years of professional experience. Students are often learning the basic idioms and patterns of a language. A lot of students don't know how to use source control systems. So their experience doesn't translate to the professional world, let alone high performing teams compromised of the top 10% of professional developers.
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  205. You've eliminated access to shared state. That's easy to do with arrays. What other data structures will this pattern work with?
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  206. Peggy Noonan is a pathetic never-Trumper. She's pious about herself and those she likes, but venomous about those who she doesn't like. In addition to hating Trump, Peggy was particularly spiteful and petty towards Sarah Palin. Peggy did everything she could to get Biden elected, but never took responsibility for her poor judgement. The fact that Bari Weiss slobbers praise on Peggy Noonan is another reason to question Bari's judgement.
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  207.  @mistalan  Answer his final question. If you try to do that you'll see that your comment is nonsense.
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  208.  @ErikLevin  - That isn't what I said. Do you have a response to what I said which is if TDD actually worked better than other processes why isn't it in wide spread use? Respond to my argument, not to its inverse.
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  209.  @someoneelse5005  - Who disagreed with "understand what your code is supposed to do"? You are using a very dishonest tactic in trying to attribute to me something I never said. The rest of your post is unsupported assertions and mindless drivel. The mindlessness is what drives fads that aren't supported by metrics or data. Come back when you have some data to back up your claims. Until then you're just a mindless fanboy.
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  210.  @Ashton666  - You love to make unsupported claims. You assume as an article of faith that "TDD is in the best interest of ALL of those involved in software,". Neither you nor anyone else has shown that. You say it "can be mathematicaly shown to be wrong!" that "humans have all the needed knowledge to assure the a given decision leads them to their best interest". But who ever said that? Or even assumed that? You create a false assumption and then proceed to show it is wrong. Duh You assume that TDD is some kind of magic that will solve the problem of not having enough information. I said that professionals usually do what they believe is best for their customers and their company, but you've turned this into people doing what they think is best for them. Those are different things. Your writing is incoherent and your thinking is even more so.
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  211.  @ErikLevin  - Answer the question. Tell us why TDD has not been widely adopted if it is so good? Do you have any metrics showing that TDD works better than other approaches?
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  212.  @ErikLevin  - I meant it as a question that leads to a conclusion: If TDD actually worked better than other approaches then why wouldn't it be in widespread use? My conclusion and that of many others is that it isn't any better than other approaches. You seem to know this when you admit that you don't have any metrics to the contrary. Smoking isn't widespread (at least not in the US). It's pretty rare. Kind of like the use of TDD.
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  213. The roles that Sam Elliot played that I will never forget are as General John Buford in "Gettysburg" and Sergeant Major Basil Plumley in "We Were Soldiers". Those were perfect type casting. I also loved him in "The Ranch".
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  214. There's so much dishonesty and hypocrisy here it's hard to respond to it all. I'll touch on some of Greg Mitchell's lowlights: Mitchell complains that no mention was made of civilian casualties from the bombings. Why isn't Mitchell concerned about the civilians murdered by the Japanese in China and the Philippines? He says that Nagasaki wasn't mentioned. Why doesn't he say why bombing Nagasaki necessary? Because Japan refused to surrender after Hiroshima. Why doesn't Mitchell mention what the total casualties would have happened if the US had not used the bomb and invaded Japan instead? They would have been in the millions. But he dismisses the "hundreds of thousands" of US soldiers and Marines that would have been killed in an invasion. His feigned concern about civillian casualties is just hypocritical. If Japan was going to surrender anyway, why didn't Japan surrender after the Hiroshima bombing?
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  215. Why would Trump or any of his advisors listen to someone who holds them in deepest contempt?
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  216. Ummm. Linux wrote Linux without TDD. Is that madness?
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  217. So why does the CFPB get to give itself the power to regulate AI? Don't simp for power grabbing bureaucrats.
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  218. Carter cancelled the B1. Giving him credit for the B2 is nonsense. Integrating high tech with weapons systems was inevitable. That's like giving Bill Clinton credit for the internet because it became popular during his presidency. Oh, I forgot that Al Gore invented the internet.
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  219. So you would abolish the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You are on the same path that Mao Zedong took that led to his killing tens of millions of his own people. Atheists have killed more people in the 20th century than all religious wars in history.
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  220. "don't write a specific test for every class" Who agrees with that definition of TDD? TDD advocates say that you have to write a test before you write any code. You need to come up with a new name for what you and Uncle Bob are suggesting. And when did Uncle Bob give up on the normal definition of TDD?
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