magwas
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5 years ago
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on: Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
"democratically elected"??? It is not true. They oppress opposition and lie to people. They did not need to cheat in the day of election, as they cheated before. Gerrymandering, fining parties to death, buying people in other parties, making mainstream media unreachable for opposition, changing laws to make sure no one can outvote them, and this could be continued through pages. They have stolen a huge part of the previous EU budget, in plainly criminal ways. Why did the EU gave them more money with a licence to steal?
magwas
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5 years ago
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on: Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
Meanwhile: after the EU budget talk all representatives of the dictatorship boasted that they could avoid the provision which ties the budget to rule of law.
Basically they were proud that they won't have to be lawful.
And the EU just let them.
magwas
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5 years ago
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on: Software should be designed to last
If you write your code properly, you will have tests which break on every library incompatibility, and a tiny wrapper around your libraries. (If you do TDD properly, you will have it.) And that's all you need to keep your code up to date. When upgrading a library, you will of course build and test your code with it, and that will show you any problems, which you can fix in the library interface layer before having any chance to go to production.
magwas
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5 years ago
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on: Why some methodologies cannot spread?
Real world is complex, and you need certain approaches to be able to handle the complexity.
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
The test coverage should be so good that mutation testing finds nothing uncovered.
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
The most important rule is not there:
All zombies should be thoroughly justified: why a unit test cannot be written to kill it?
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere
The well operators would oppose. You know, a component of oil-arms lobby, those guys who made the Iraq war.
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)
Very useful, thank you. But...
Sidetracked by refactoring and testing? C'mon...
The rules of profession for programmers include the rules of TDD.
If you do TDD correctly, you cannot be sidetracked by those, because this is your main job. Production code is mostly written by the IDE, by pressing Ctrl-1.
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: 30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan Club
The trabi is a car specifically designed with a set of constraints:
- to be cheap
- to be easy to manufacture with no need of low tolerance parts
- to be easy to repair without much equipment
Those design goals were met perfectly. And the 2 stroke motor line designed by eastern german engineers for MZ bikes and Trabi is actually an engineering miracle of the time.
The compression is partly achieved by the sound wave reflected by the exhaust.
magwas
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6 years ago
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on: Punk Mathematics (2010)
It's a fucking rad concept. I need that book. Anyone knows a timeline where it exists?
