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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin
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I do not hate Donald Trump. I do not love Donald Trump. If that is a problem for you, you should unfollow me now. I support the good things that Donald Trump has done. I resist the bad things that Donald Trump has done.
As an honorable and decent human being I think Barack Obama is Donald Trump’s superior; in just about every way. As ceremonial leader of the country, I think Obama was much better than Trump. As chief executive I think Trump has been far superior to Obama.
On taxes, regulations, and foreign policy I support Trump’s policies. On trade I have my doubts. I despise Trump’s juvenile tweets and his lying, self-congratulatory oratory.
If you uncritically love Donald Trump, or uncritically hate Donald Trump (or Barack Obama or George Bush) you are irrelevant to the political process; because you have abandoned your inalienable right to critical thought. I feel sorry for you.
If any of this is a problem for you, you should unfollow me now.
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Two programmers. One does TDD. One does not. Can both be software craftspeople? Yes, if both are motivated by the love of the craft. That motivation will draw them together in the shared understanding that neither pole of their disagreement was correct.
TDD is good. Absolute, 100%, total, without exception, TDD is a nightmare. Testing at the REPL is good. Exclusively testing at the REPL without unit tests is a nightmare. Manual testing is good. Too much manual testing, without automation, is awful.
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I spent the last few days fixing bugs in, and refactoring, a relatively small function that added a new feature to an existing system. It was a horror scene. The previous programmer (who released the code and then quit) had not thought the problem through very carefully.
So there were a number of logical holes that were found by customers within hours of the initial release.

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@eyydontatme Again, thank you for the considered response. Responses like that are much better than fire and forget tweets. I’m not going to address the media’s use of Nazi-ism here. I’ve beaten that horse to death.
The immigration issue is both simple and complicated. The simple part is that people, and especially, children are suffering. It’s horrific. You made that case very well.
Another simple aspect is that the Trump administration was careless in the extreme. Wickedly careless. The idea that they would use children as pawns to influence the courts, or congress, or other immigrants is awful.
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He & I were like brothers back then. We went on a short trip together & talked about America.

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