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yexponential··on Ask HN: What is your workplace test strategy?
for reference found https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing to be a great theoretical reference however I wonder of the practicality of the implementation
yexponential··on Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?
Interesting, didn't know about this, thanks for sharing
yexponential··on How we keep dependencies fresh across 45+ microservices
how do you handle when you major version upgrade to your microservice that breaks 7 other microservices in the CI, do you fix it? Do they fix it?
yexponential··on What Monoids teach us about software
> Given a value, we do not have to care how it was built, and whether it is a composite or not. We might not be even to tell (*).

missed a word: Able to tell.

yexponential··on Cell – A self-driving web app framework
I agree. "There are only 3 rules to remember" -> "here are 6 keywords to remember" caught me as well

Interesting concept nonetheless

yexponential··on Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus service in London
Yeah, its quite the same in London. In that case I switch to maps, but it isn't very often for me.
yexponential··on A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
How do you find companies that follow this or a variant over the traditional process. I've been interviewing at companies over the past couple of years and I've only participated at 1 take home task (startup) and know about 1 other company (on my list) that follows that.

I, like others stated above, tend to perform much better in my own space and time than under eyes on a whiteboard..

yexponential··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
Youtube.com/thenewboston something very soothing about his videos and humor
yexponential··on Bitcoin Wealth Distribution
Agreed.
yexponential··on Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report
For the curious this was the content of the email. Pretty generic.

"Dear Let's Encrypt Subscriber,

We're writing to let you know that we are updating the Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement, effective June 30, 2016. You can find the updated agreement (v1.1) as well as the current agreement (v1.0.1) in the "Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement" section of the following page:

https://letsencrypt.org/repository/

Thank you for helping to secure the Web by using Let's Encrypt"

yexponential··on Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
This is awesome news.

Should we be worried that LE is sponsored by the big players (cisco et al.)

Not implying that we should. Just genuinely wondering if we should be wary or if it means anything at all, for the future of LE I mean.

ps:might be my misunderstanding as im not sure what sponsored actually entails.

yexponential··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Can you share your stack.

Also as an innovative idea, how are you planning to deal with the surge of clones to follow, any patents in the works?

yexponential··on A look at the Technology behind the 4D Game Miegakure [video]
"What you see is a 2D projection of a 3D slice of a 4D object".

Poetry.

yexponential··on Free React.js Fundamentals Course
Serious question, and sorry(?) for bringing this up. But is everyone here really okay with reacts licencing?

Apart from stubbornly refusing to accept embedding html in js directly is a good idea (although I see the pros), licencing is the main reason I avoid this ecosystem altogether. Even though it has an outstanding community.

perhaps I'm making a deal out of nothing.

In any case will definitely take the course, im sure it will be as excellent as the others. Many thanks for your efforts Tyler.

yexponential··on 32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online
"Use a desktop player! Browsers and video doesn't go together well, even in 2015 and especially when it's live. So for your best viewing experience please use a desktop player like VLC or mplayer."

Am I the only one to be bothered by this comment.

yexponential··on Scrum is the new waterfall
This. 1000x. This is definitely one of the pitfalls of poorly implemented scrum. For bigger companies, scrum tends to be a decision by the higher ups and implemented by the lower ranks keeping middle management is disarray over their role in the change. Moreover as the author mentions agile is about people first, but followed by processes. If scrum teams don't have the power, or empowerment, to change the processes, to become more agile, to remove blockers/impediments, the team burns out / self destructs for the precise reason you mention about spending longer hours achieve the committed (not to mention the committed is affected by the deadlines which are manipulated by management/or worse, external stakeholders) in order to uphold their word/project. To me there is a flaw here.

I do believe scrum can be an effective tool for a few use cases, but people often underestimate the warning signs. "Scrum is easy to learn, but difficult to master." - https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2011/may/sc...

yexponential··on Due to a (catastrophic) hardware crash, this site will be closed
Anyone with insight on what happened exactly?
yexponential··on The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
Thank you both for this interesting discussion, helped me grasp a few things.
yexponential··on Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?
Tesla e should know this.