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edgo | 10 years ago | on: Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful

Unit test are not just for people who write bugs (parent comment), a good start would be to test for the 9th row the problem was asking for. Since you can't test all possible values a representative sample would be good enough.

Just to be pedantic: It's not TDD if he already wrote the functional code ;)

edgo | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I get my team to write better code?

Code Complete has 960 pages, not in the short book category

edgo | 12 years ago | on: 4 apps, one weekend

I beg to differ. There is always design work, you made design choices and even if they were careless choices you always have a final work that might be great or just poorly designed.

edgo | 12 years ago | on: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

Practice helps if you can learn from the good and bad moves on both sides of the board. The article mentions analysis, have you tried that? Great players draw from a big pool of previous experiences and not only their own.

edgo | 13 years ago | on: Use Your Unfair Advantage To Create an Unforgettable First Day For New Hires

That's why it is very important to touch the company culture topic during the interview and find out if it's a good match.

edgo | 13 years ago | on: How Angry are your Developers?

This could be improved with natural language processing but I guess it is just a quick and dirty "15 minutes" kind of solution

edgo | 13 years ago | on: Results of Freelance Rates Survey (UK), 2012

He is called out right there in the post: Andy Clarke.