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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

This alone may have been okay, but we were touted as an example to the rest of engineering and because our tests were basically the only non-end to end tests, everyone copied what we had done. Pretty soon we had a HUGE number of integration tests and still virtually zero true integration tests.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

This alone may have been okay, but we were touted as an example to the rest of engineering and because our tests were basically the only non-end to end tests, everyone copied what we had done. Pretty soon we had a HUGE number of integration tests and still virtually zero true integration tests.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

In the second, the candidate is using some standard industry lingo as a crutch — what he said could easily be applied to pretty much any software engineering position. Judging each resume along these lines certainly wasn’t an exact science, and not every example was as cut-and-dry as the one above. Conclusion.

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Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths

Software By Rob

This is known in psychology as the ten thousand hour rule, and Malcolm Gladwell ruined it for the rest of us by beating this idea to death in his book Outliers. Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks

Software By Rob

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. . #10 Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 10 x on 07.15.09 You can’t let go.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08