links for 2010-09-03
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âMaster programmer, consider this pipeline. Implemented in pure C, would it not span ten thousand lines?â
The programmer muttered through his beard⦠finally he agreed that it was so.
âAnd how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?â
âMany,â admitted the visiting programmer. âBut only a fool would spend the time to do that when so many more worthy tasks await him.â
âAnd who better understands the Unix-nature?â Master Foo asked. âIs it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?â
Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened.
tell cucumber stories about nagios -- this may or may not change my life
Dave Astels on what test-driven development really means. Hint: it has nothing to do with achieving 80% unit test coverage ;-)


