[HN Gopher] How I learned to program
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       How I learned to program
        
       Author : swyx
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-10-16 09:09 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (danluu.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (danluu.com)
        
       | ncmncm wrote:
       | I always learn something anytime I read Dan Luu, even (or
       | particularly) when I have read it before.
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | I always have trouble with reading Dan's blog, so I added some
       | custom CSS here
       | https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1449472712720601088 with some
       | explainers
        
       | baud147258 wrote:
       | > The Joel Test is now considered to be obsolete because it
       | awards points for things like "Do you have testers?", which
       | aren't considered best practices by most devs today.
       | 
       | Is having dedicated testers really not a best practice? I mean if
       | I compare my experience between projects where we had testers and
       | projects where we didn't, I felt we had better results when we
       | did, if only because it'd free up lot of time from the
       | developpers, who don't have to run a lot of tests and the testers
       | usually think of edge case that we overlook. One downside of
       | having testers is that it kinda slowed down the process of test
       | automation, but in that particular case, it's not the only cause.
        
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