Extreme programming is basically pair programming. It sucks and doesn’t work. Cucumber is also known as “behavioral driven (design/development)” or BDD. It manifests as test documents written in “plain English” that are executed via code. It inevitably becomes unit tests but worse because it’s based mainly around regex matches to bits of text within the steps.

Eventually the only way rich people can get richer is by stealing from other rich people because the economy is so heavily weighted toward the rich that there’s just no money to extract from the poor. I think that’s related to what we’re seeing here … And probably everywhere else as well.

He wrote some hyped up programming books and he was involved in the creation of extreme programming (a bust), cucumber (an almost completely useless waste of time), and agile (an ok idea but in reality it’s a huge bust, it’s biggest effect is that management tells everyone “we need to be agile” all the time).

Tldr: you’re not missing out

Til both that he’s trash and that Uncle Bob is trash. It makes sense honestly, Uncle Bob was always hyped to no end with his mediocre contributions to software. Also the agile manifesto sucks ass.

We are actually that stupid.

Is signal not good enough or something? I basically switched to signal.