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Tuesday 9th July’s issue is presented by QA Wolf |
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The Right Kind Of Stubborn — Paul Graham
tl;dr: Paul compares persistence and obstinance. “When you look at the internal structure of persistence, it doesn't resemble obstinacy at all. It's so much more complex. Five distinct qualities — energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement, and focus on a goal — combine to produce a phenomenon that seems a bit like obstinacy in the sense that it causes you not to give up. But the way you don't give up is completely different.”
Leadership Management |
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Standups: Individual → Teammate — Kent Beck
tl;dr: Kent discusses his reasoning behind standups. “Treating standup meetings as a technical solution to a technical problem — we need to communicate this many bits of information to this many people as efficiently as possible — misses the real point. We’re people. With needs. The better those needs are met, the better we can meet the needs of others.”
Leadership Management |
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Drata Secured 86% Faster QA Cycles
tl;dr: QA Wolf is delivering QA at DrataSpeed: (1) Regression testing is 90 minutes faster than before, and includes 4x more test cases. (2) Quickly onboarded and gave Drata’s QA resources space to work on new features, saving more than $500,000/year. (3) Went from overnight deploys to multiple times daily.
Promoted by QA Wolf Tests Management |
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Notes For New Hires — Clinton Blackburn
tl;dr: “I’m onboarding new engineers at Vori, and finally took some time to write a few ideas I’ve been kicking around and sharing internally. I have personally found these practices helpful over the past few years, and think others might, as well. This isn’t applicable to only junior engineers, or new hires. I didn’t learn some of these lessons until I was eight years into my career as a tech lead at edX, or a couple years later at Stripe.”
CareerAdvice |
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“Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.”
— Bruce Schneier
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Solving A Math Problem With Planner Programming — Hillel Wayne
tl;dr: “Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document, and a letter "a" is written in it. In the following steps, only the three functions of "select all", "copy" and "paste" can be used. Find the minimum number of steps to reach at least 100,000 a's. If the target number is not specified, and I want to get the exact amount of a, is there a general formula?”
Design |
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8 Versions Of UUID And When To Use Them
— Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya
tl;dr: “I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID. I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat. So instead of hogging that knowledge for just us, here it is: some good uses for different versions of UUID.”
UUID |
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Writing Tips for Improving Your Pull Requests — Jeff Mueller
tl;dr: “I’m going to show you how to purposely write less by using the techniques below.” Tips are: (1) Make it scannable. (2) Speak plainly. (3) Avoid adverbs. (4) Simplify your sentences. (5) Avoid a passive voice. Jeff adds examples to each.
Git Tips |
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