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    What's the opposite of TDD, where you write tests after you create the product code? Ask Programming

    What's the opposite of TDD, where you write tests after you create the product code? Ask Programming


    What's the opposite of TDD, where you write tests after you create the product code?

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    Am I losing my mind, or do some cultures dislike high achievers?

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    At the risk of sounding like a perfect addition to r/iamverysmart... I am SO frustrated with my current job situation, and frankly appalled that a major tech company can be this way.

    I don't know where to begin. I have never in any previous job experienced so much of people not doing what they said they were going to do, skipping meetings without notice, not bothering to answer Slack messages or emails, etc. My own boss blows off my messages and meetings and hasn't bothered to speak to me directly for weeks, didn't send the email to let people know I joined until I'd been here for over a month. Not sure how much of it could be me being a contractor vs just the way it is in general.

    So I've had no choice but to figure out my own path. I was told what kind of internal tools they want me to work on, so I've been reaching out across the team intended to use them to figure out what needs to be fixed, what new features they want implemented and how, etc. For some added context - I was super shocked to find that some of the tools they've paid contractors insane money for aren't even being used, and my team doesn't seem to know or care. It's almost like they're just asking for this work to tell someone higher up that technically XYZ has been done. Anyway, it's going well from what I can get from some users and I'm totally happy to work independently on research, design, and development of these tools on my own while I'm here, but I get bummed out on a near-daily basis by getting blown off in all sorts of ways. Nobody bothers to tell me if there's an FTE-only thing going on that they are all going to instead of our meeting, I never know if I'm actually going to hear back on anything I was promised that my work rides on, the whole thing with my boss not acknowledging my existence has become very awkward.

    On top of this all, a lot of people seem irritated that I am getting through things so quickly, answering people's questions I know answers to in Slack channels, connecting with users and proposing new developments. I'm not dropping the ball on anything else, in fact, I have finished what they hoped I might do in half the contract time and am just doing more on top by user request. But I've been told 'don't run yourself ragged', 'we don't think you should do X or Y because of Z no good reason', etc like they want to stub it out. Almost like they are feeling threatened and don't want to know if the tools they've paid for aren't being used, aren't any good, etc. Which blows my mind, because IT'S OKAY if that's the case, we find that out and figure out ways to make things work out well.

    I love being an IC and LOVE to code. I don't care about climbing the ranks (in fact, I don't want to), and if my boss engaged with me at all she would know I am super loyal to any boss that is a decent human being and supports me on the odd occasion I might need something for my work. All I want in my day-to-day work is:

    A. to feel like my time is well spent in building things that are valuable, 'valuable' to me meaning people are using them and they have a positive experience

    B. to feel somewhat cared about as a human being, and for people to treat each other with respect and kindness (not so bad here compared to a past team where people were downright mean to each other, but the MIA boss and getting blown off isn't ideal either)

    Am I asking for a lot here? In the past, I was in a different role on a few teams that were more what I would expect. One in particular was so awesome, most of the people were very skilled, driven, secure in themselves, and excited about what they were doing. They were super excited that I do well because they were focused more on the outcomes than worried about looking good vs bad themselves. They really cared about relationships and the human experience, and even though I was a contractor there they went out of their way to include me however they could. I wish I could go back to the same team as an engineer, but I can't.

    I know this is limited info, but does any of this sound familiar, and should I maintain some hope that I can find a place that feels more self aware and high quality like that, or is that insanely rare, or am I deluded? I can't help but feel like I'd be stoked to have someone who's kind to others and gets a ton of shit done. I'm sure I'm biased in my own favor, but at the same time, I've always had more of a tendency to question myself and not recognize my own value. It's just that these are the few things I really care about, take seriously, and do think I'm good at?

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    How do I get better at recursion?

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    I'm learning recursion in functional programming and none of it makes any sense. I have my base case and all that but I can't even approach my recursive step. There's always something in there tripping me up. I'm not the best at programming but I swear I've never been this confused about a concept.Damn it.

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    Wouldn't it be relatively trivial to make an extension that lets you see posts from people that block you on Twitter? Why doesn't this exist yet?

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    IBM Technical

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    Has anyone gone through the IBM Garage Cloud Engineer Technical interview? I have an interview with this team next Tuesday.

    What was your experience like? What kind of app did they have you build and deploy? What were some of the open ended questions you were asked?

    Thanks in advance.

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    I am working with pandas, and I want to assign a variable the value of a mean of a dataframe. How do I do that?

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    How can I create a 'scroll to the bottom of the page' button in html?

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    So I'm designing a website and on the bottom of a long page is the contact info. On the header are panels and for the 'contact' panel I just want the page to scroll down to the bottom. I found some non-js code online that basically does this, in my CSS I targeted the contact html tag and gave it scroll-behavior: smooth; This is great and all but now the 'contact' area expanded to fit the screen and I don't know how to fix it. It was much shorter before, but I labelled the header 'Contact' on the bottom for the scroll and as it automatically places the labelled heading on the top of the page, it expands the contact area. (I hope I was able to explain that). Does anyone know (preferably non-js) code that would allow a user to scroll to the bottom without any issues?

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    Gamepedia that isn't editable

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    Is there a term for a website akin to gamepedias and/or wikis, but does not allow editing of contents? In the first place, do those websites even exists?

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    Free or freemium API for bitcoin prices since its creation?

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    Hey. I said quite everything in the title.

    A few thousand requests per hour suffice. Basically I want to know the price of bitcoin for example in 7th of June in 2012.

    submitted by /u/MahdiGhajary
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    Having trouble with Raylib in C++

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    Im on Linux and I am having compiling issues. I am using the g++ compiler. The issues are as stated.

    cannot find -lglfw

    I have downloaded libglfw3 from the apt package manager, but that hasn't seemed to fix the problem. I have tried using different names for the library but it does not seem to want to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

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    How does a software license distinguish between machines?

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    How does a software license tell apart two different machines? Is it some kind of serial number, or IP address?

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    Question about interrupts.

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    If we have a CPU with just one core, and we disable interrupts. What would it do?

    submitted by /u/Ting320
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    Question about Loadable kernel modules

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    Do Loadable kernel modules have a system call number?

    submitted by /u/Ting320
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    ERROR: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in (my file)

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    Please help me i'm getting these error: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in (my file).

    There are 2 lines that got these errors which are:

    if(!is_null($data["username"])){

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    } elseif(!is_null($data1["email"])){

    Btw, I am making a registration page with a database but when I create a new account I am getting those error.

    submitted by /u/Traffic-Valuable
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    I am new to caching, service workers and PWAs. Is caching working for individual requests?

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    I am new to caching, service workers and PWAs if one user request a font asset for the first time and make it available on the cache, do other subsequent users get a cached version of the asset or is caching only working per user?

    submitted by /u/latest_ali
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    How read an Angular project?

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    I am a junior developer and have been assigned to this team that works on this web application similar to Whatsapp but written in Angular. It has many modules, components and pipes which is frankly quite daunting. Are there any tips / direction to follow while exploring a codebase, specifically an angular codebase? (If this is not the right place to ask, please suggest where else can I post this)

    submitted by /u/codealpha98
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    Can Monte-Carlo Tree Search be used to audit a candidate principal variation?

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    My thrust: telepathy would make you really good at chess.

    I want to write a chess engine that beats Stockfish. First I cheat, by running Stockfish myself, and output its principal variation (or better still, its transposition table). I now run a Monte-Carlo tree search, weighted based on Stockfish's principal variation, hunting for oversights.

    What weights should I use for my PUCT to formally minimise regret, and what rollout policy can people recommend?

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    Unexpected value when reading event.target.value

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    I am using Material ui's Autocomplete component to create a dropdown list. I have it set up such that onChange sits in the Autocomplete tag and calls a function when a selection is made from the dropdown.

    Simplified example:

    <Autocomplete options={itemList} getOptionLabel={(option) => option.item} onChange={e => onItemChange(e)} /> 

    Here is how I am using the TextField: type beginning of the item in the textbox -> arrow key down to highlight correct item-> press enter to select highlighted item.

    The issue arises when I try to print event.target.value in the onItemChange function

    console.log(event.target) produces:

    <input aria-invalid="false" autocomplete="off" id="item_type" name="itemType" type="text" aria-autocomplete="list" autocapitalize="none" spellcheck="false" value="The Value I want"> 

    but console.log(event.target.value) produces:

    the v 

    which is the text I had entered before I had selected "The Value I want" from the drop down.

    So my question is why the discrepancy? any other tag in the event.target can be accessed just fine just not value.

    Edit: Using onChange={ (event,value) => onItemChange(event,value) } solved the issue.

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    can WebAssembly be used for backend?

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    I am starting to learn GO for use as a website backend and found out that GO can be compiled to webassembly. That got me thinking why aren't backends written more in languages like GO and compiled to webassembly? It makes sense that big companies don't do it because people are gonna decompile it and find their database stuff. But for small companies wouldn't that make sense so all of your code is run clientside and you can save yourself the money it would cost to run a server. As a small company the chances of someone decompiling it are very small.

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    How do I create a staging server on Digital Ocean?

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    So, I have a wordpress site hosted on Digital Ocean. I am trying to update it with a new design/custom theme, etc. I want to create a staging environment where I can implement this before I update the production. What is the best approach for this?

    Should I just create another droplet, do the thing there and somehow redirect traffic?

    Sorry, I'm still new to this stuff and trying to learn! Any help is greatly appreciated.

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