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Re:Thoughts on Testing on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:57AM (#38878211)
The value of testing comes from not when its created, but months/years down the line where a new feature/bugfix changes something completely unrelated to the initial feature.

Sometimes almost or even completely useless tests are written. Its a cost I can live with.

Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:09AM (#34994758)
Clean code is about developer performance - understand stuff fast - not about hardware performance.
if the offer is still available, I'll take it. I'll pay shipping (I'm in europe, assume you are in the US).
What OS you running on that?
Looks good but this annoys me beyond belief:

http://i.imgur.com/ETQHhr5.gif

Write text, then hit SHIFT+HOME it does not select the text. Tried it in Firefox and Chrome.

I find it normal.

Whenever I re-read a book I look at it in a different light or, better yet, I have a new understanding of the book.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:16AM (#9304268)
Location: Funchal, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: PHP (CodeIgniter, Phalcon), Javascript (Vanilla, jQuery, Mootools, AngularJS), MySQL, Subversion, Git.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/elvispt. Please send email to request a resume.

Email: elvispt [at] gmail.com

I had issues pushing with an application key that was not being recognized.

Now I don't know if this was directly related, but the timing raises an eyebrow.

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:27AM (#9284730)
Had that wrong. thanks.
Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:00AM (#9284662)
Its due to these two repost most likely.

https://github.com/greatfire/

https://github.com/cn-nytimes/

Access to them is currently no possible though.

Re:How Professional Trolls Help Russia with Online Propaganda on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:15PM (#9282234)
Reminds me of the zionists brigades on reddit.
I'm in the same position as you. A few weeks ago I started a small project so that I could properly learn angularjs and the js quirks. Been fun so far.

Here is the current status: http://elvispt.github.io/crt/

Re:Ten years since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory shipped on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:17PM (#9247508)
Right or not this is definitely cause to go to a neurologist.