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pthread | 14 years ago | on: Why I Hate Test Driven Development

This is a good thing, isn’t it? So why do I hate TDD?

Because debugging is fun. There, I said it. I love debugging. I think lots of clever people like debugging.

I've been doing embedded development for quite some time, so you know, flipping bits like a boss, a shitload of open terminals, lots of cables everywhere all the stuff that makes you look like you know what you're doing but debugging is not fun, it never was, it's a huge waste of my time.

You know what's fun? Having a product that works.

Debugging is code monkey job, you don't do it because you're smart, you're doing it because you were foolish.

To love debugging is to not love to code.

pthread | 14 years ago | on: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"

I've been having problems with nvidia drivers ever since xserver 1.1

The performance sucks and the gtkperf shows it

Running gtkperf on a laptop with a 943/940gml integrated graphics card Total time: 7.17

On a laptop with a nvidia 8400 card Total time: 9.08

eeepc 701sd Total time: 25.31

Nothing has changed, while 3D is decent, 2D drawing is a pain, just switching tabs in firefox makes you want to throw the damn thing out the window.

pthread | 14 years ago | on: Robert Scoble calls G+'s "ghost town" reputation "unfair ... simply wrong"

True story. I have about 300 people in my circles mostly engineers and the interaction is great. I'm talking about people involved in FOSS (system programmers, embedded developers, devops mostly).

I have no idea who R. Scoble is and just by peaking at his profile I have to say that I have no interest in following him. This is probably why most people that use Twitter don't fit in the G+ space. As far as I'm concerned most technical Twitter users are Web developers, the SEO (crap) crowd, designers, social media whores, guys posting about hipster bands. Not to generalize but that's how I see it and the reason Twitter is a ghost town for me, Facebook is useless and G+ is awesome. To each his own.

pthread | 14 years ago | on: GitHub for Windows

Funny how most git users out there (at least according to the git user's survery 2011 [1]) use Linux, yet github seems to go out of its way not to build a tool for its majority of users. I would also go as far as to extrapolate and state that most github users are Linux users (which is true for every programmer I know on github).

Would it have been that hard to just use Qt and build a cross platform tool? Or is that not hipster-friendly enough?

I guess it's cool to profit, not that cool to give back. I wouldn't use their tool anyway but I think they're assholes on this one.

[1] https://www.survs.com/results/Q5CA9SKQ/P7DE07F0PL

pthread | 14 years ago | on: Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

They probably also have better internships (paying aside). I've been 4 times in GSoC and what I can tell you is that as far as I'm concerned this is the most interesting thing I can do over the summer.

An internship here involves at best, some random module in some offshore product, at worst a "hello world" type project in $insert_whatever_technology_the_company_happens_to_use.

I love hacking on FLOSS and I'm not that interested in how much I'm payed (as long as it's decent), but there's no way I could find a job where I could work on FLOSS on a 400miles radius. I guess this explains why so many eastern europeans and indians.

I might be wrong but my feeling is that here in the EU there are few to none hacker-friendly jobs.

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