TDD is BS?

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Wed Jun 26 13:31:47 PDT 2013


On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:24:27 -0400
Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:03:57 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> > and every now and then I still browse
> > around learning new algorithms and stuff, while everybody else is
> > clicking their lives away on FB and twitter (no offense, Andrei,
> > but I do think FB is an evil waste of time, at least when it comes
> > to the way most people use it).
> > 
> 
> My biggest issues with FB/Twit are that:
> 
> A. They degenerate the internet into proprietary walled-gardens (it's
> internet w/ orwellian training wheels, or a Dvorak put it: It's "New
> AOL")
> 
> B. They've managed to turn every product and advertisement, ever, into
> their *own* advertisement with the "f" and "t" plastered everywhere
> you look. I even have a granola bar sitting here with FB's and Twit's
> advertising plastered on the wrapper, for fuck's sake. I wouldn't mind
> the twitfaces so much if I were able to opt-out of their constant
> bombardment from every fucking facet of society.
> 
> But yea, the fact that, for the most part, they ultimately amount to
> LiveJournal anyway (itself an abomination of pointless self-indulgent
> minutia and drivel) doesn't help matters.
> 

Again though, like you said, nothing against Andrei. I completely
understand the difference between a person and their employer. Hell, I
used to work for a [car] insurance company!



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