TDD is BS?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Jun 20 20:50:08 PDT 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:32:56PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:04:54 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> > 
> > That's terrible. It encourages the kind of sloppy coding that makes
> > so much "enterprise" code look nastier than what a highschool
> > dropout writes in his sleep.
> > 
> 
> I realize you're just using that as an illustrative example, but:
[...]
> Bottom line is, schools are absolute garbage, and academic
> achievement is *at best* completely meaningless.
[...]

I hit a nerve, didn't I? ;-)

One of my previous supervisors told me that when he gets resumés, as
soon as he sees "Ph.D" he chucks it straight into the trash. I have an
MSc, and he almost did the same with my resumé until he saw that I did a
lot of personal coding projects on the side, and contributed to open
source projects. His reasons: (1) most CS grad students know too much
theory but can't write any real code; (2) they're too opinionated to be
able to work in a team.  He may have been a bit extreme, but then I've
personally met CS grad students who knew more about uncomputable
problems than computable ones... :-P  and the sight of their code makes
me wanna wash my hands with detergent.


T

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