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Uttam Kini in Premature Encapsulation

Nov 15, 2017

Programming in your head

Programming started out as just a job for me. I started enjoying it with time and still do. When I started out, I was like most programmers; Start hacking code and try to make it work. I copied pasted code from other files, Stack-overflow and the rest of the internet. I did not…

The Dreyfus model applied to testing

Every now and then, I see some posts on the internet that say how unit testing is useless and actually counterproductive when you want to refactor. In their opinion coarser grained tests (integration and end to end) should be the only type of tests. I also have…

Work expands to “utilize resources”

Parkinson’s law says “Work expands to fill the time available to fill it”. I see a slight variant of it in the wild. This version is “Work is invented because we have to “utilize resources”.