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Secretly terrible engineers (STEs) are everywhere, and they may be on your very team as we speak. Present company not included, of course.
Other than a few? people in QA. And the forums.
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Nice article.
What really gets me about people who can't FizzBuzz is not that they haven't heard of the modulus operator, but that they didn't bother to Google 'programming interview questions' before the freaking interview!
Seriously! FizzBuzz is the quintessential programming interviewing question, if you just google 'programming interview questions' you will find it in two minutes, and can memorise it in a further 3. That's 5 minutes they clearly couldn't be bothered to spend preparing for an interview, and that is bloody terrifying!
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If they have to "prepare" to solve FizzBuzz, they are already a lost cause anyway.
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Totally, but I would be worried about the ones who don't even try to prepare making me a big-mac, never mind programming 
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Secretly terrible developers are much worse - mainly because of the acronym.
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In Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 we are introducing the "Create Unit Tests" feature that provides the ability to create unit test method stubs. Hopefully they'll write them too. That would save so much effort and time.
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Yeah, I'm also expecting more from Microsoft. For writing a VS-Plugin that creates unit test method STUBS they could've asked me.
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Sounds a lot like what Pex[^] already did?
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Yeah, I suspect this is just Pex rebranded.
TTFN - Kent
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If the standard medical short-term memory loss tests ever expand to include IT there are going to be a good deal more false positives!
modified 9-Mar-15 3:52am.
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Rebranded and extended. Pex was limited to portable class libraries, Smart Unit Tests will also work on code targeting the full .net framework. OTOH if your legacy code wasn't written according to TDD flavor of the week styles, the odds are that it won't be able to generate useful tests. SUT ignores any methods that touch a WinForm UI control (at the most basic level, mocking input controls as strings/Booleans/enums would get about 90% of the way there), can't figure out the need for any non-injected dependencies (hint, if that static class is only initialized one way in the code base, that's probably the way it needs inited in the tests too), or anything that passes paths to the file system as strings (no, "a", "b", ... "aa", ... won't work as a pattern here; admittedly though this one doesn't have an 'obvious' better default behavior).
PS Yeah, yeah, yeah, at some point I should stop procrastinating, create a demo-legacy code project to replicate what I saw trying SUT against one of my work codebases and write an article on it.
PPS Have you seen a unicorn that farts rainbows that lead not to a pot of gold, but to a day of extra free time?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We pretend what we do is computer “science”. When in reality, its more art than science. "The central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way."
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Mine usually ends up as HBDD (Head Banging Driven Development)
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Rock'n'roll! 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others
Well, if others did work that was capable of being built upon...
Kent Sharkey wrote: rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.
If I were to re-implement something in a trivially different way, then shame on me. But the point of redoing prior work is for exactly the reason that it is not done in a trivially different way, but rather in a significantly different way, namely such that it can be built upon. 
Marc
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With that attitude, we wouldn't have cell phones since we already had phones to begin with.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Android is coming after Oculus Rift, the Wall Street Journal reports. Isn't that the episode where Data plays Sherlock Holmes?
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Wasn't it that episode where they re-routed the energy from the shields to the rear laser phalanx for the 100th time after initially thinking it wouldn't be possible?
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Microsoft advisory dramatically raises the number of vulnerable end-user devices. Did anyone feel otherwise? /sigh
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Journalist details the discovery of hundreds of Internet-connected devices that lacked basic password protection. Passwords, do you speak it?
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Brings visions of Ozzy's "I am Iron Man" as played by your refrigerator? (probably in the middle of the freaken night)
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I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Nootropics—the name given to a broad class of so-called “cognitive-enhancing” drugs—are all the rage in Silicon Valley these days. Programmers like nootropics because they’re said to increase productivity and sharpen focus without the intensity or side effects of a prescription drug like Adderall or modafinil. Some users mix their own nootropics using big bins of powders, purchased off the Internet or in supplement stores. And some take pre-made “stacks” that are designed to produce specific effects.
Just one thin dime
One tenth of a dollar
Step right up, folks
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modified 6-Mar-15 15:07pm.
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Bah! Sushi is brain food. Yummm.
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Mine is Heavy Metal. Brings the blood running in my veins!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yeah a little God Smack always nice!
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