15:[[18653254,{"by":"dc957a3134","descendants":2,"id":18653254,"kids":[18654463,18658143],"score":1,"text":"$16","time":1544500960,"title":"Ask HN: Is Google's search quality declining?","type":"story"}],[14031026,{"by":"sandGorgon","descendants":13,"id":14031026,"kids":[14032516,14047508,14032197,14031141,14033407],"score":7,"text":"I have been considering introducing TDD in my startup . We do a fair bit of non-trivial work in our Python/Flask APIs : credit scoring, accounting, workflows, etc

I'm wondering if TDD is even a good idea ? Can one get to a stage where writing testcases is as easy as writing specs or whiteboarding ?

Or does TDD become one of "those processes that founders shoved down our throat" ?

There was a very interesting discussion about this a few years back on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240595

P.S. A lot of responses I get are "whatever works for your team". Fair enough. But I'm looking for fairly opinionated answers - how do you do it ? And what would you do better ?

what's your mental model around writing tests ? Do you write tests after every function, every commit , every day ? When you are building a new product (and maybe hacking stuff together in the middle of the night), would you still write tests before moving forward ?","time":1491300554,"title":"Ask HN: Can you do TDD in a complex product (data science, AI, etc)?","type":"story"}],[13199215,{"by":"herokiko","descendants":71,"id":13199215,"kids":[13199412,13199286,13199398,13199326,13199515,13199745,13199607,13199289,13199399,13199448,13199555,13199297,13199430,13199354,13199511,13199392,13199776,13199451,13199325,13199424,13199527,13199275,13199328,13199414,13199446,13199285,13199794,13199422,13204875,13199622,13199557,13199507,13201830,13199322,13199444,13199550,13199878,13199345,13199303,13199469,13199315,13199329,13199488,13199487,13199423,13199292,13199331],"score":44,"text":"Let's do HN retrospective and see where we stand.

About me - left a falling titan of the Internet and moved to Seattle to work for another tech company. Weather sucks here in winter.

Fallback - I wasn't able to get girlfriend or any woman interested me this year as well. I don't drink or smoke and lack of hobbies contributed to it. I am getting lonely a lot lately. May be because I am 31 now.

What about you?","time":1481949067,"title":"Ask HN: What have you achieved in 2016?","type":"story"}],[11699187,{"by":"fratlas","descendants":16,"id":11699187,"kids":[11699254,11699406,11699652,11699442,11701916,11704286,11702975,11704898,11700181,11699599,11699400],"score":29,"text":"Simple one page static pages that you may make small edits to (such as a simple web game or demo page), what's your setup for efficient deploys? Framework, hosting, uploading?","time":1463281276,"title":"Ask HN: What's your workflow for simple side projects?","type":"story"}],[10251015,{"by":"luck87","dead":true,"id":10251015,"kids":[10251058,10251051,10251169,10251042,10251105,10251067,10251076,10251135,10251305,10251106,10253400],"score":11,"text":"Have you check skype connection problems today? I don't know if it is an italian problem or worldwide.","time":1442823768,"title":"Ask HN: Skype down?","type":"story"}],[10166043,{"by":"sanjeetsuhag","descendants":47,"id":10166043,"kids":[10166331,10166225,10166087,10166204,10166544,10166106,10166182,10166348,10167509,10166201,10166242],"score":109,"text":"","time":1441299482,"title":"Protected branches and required status checks","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required-status-checks"}],[9315306,{"by":"Revell","descendants":4,"id":9315306,"kids":[9321629,9315354,9316283,9321173],"score":5,"text":"There's a couple different shells available at the moment, the most popular being ZSH[0], Fish[1] and Bash[2].

Which one has your preference? And how do you deal with different environments and shells (e.g. SSH into a server and you're using Bash i.o. your own preferred local shell)?

[0] http://zsh.sourceforge.net/

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/","time":1428061270,"title":"Ask HN: What shell do you use?","type":"story","url":""}],[7973263,{"by":"marclave","descendants":17,"id":7973263,"kids":[7976045,7975780,7973535,7976464,7974107,7975929,7975149,7977876,7973705,7975217,8007799,7974962,7973277,7974520,7973633,7977083,7973293,8008452],"score":18,"text":"If you have a job, or what degree you're working towards?","time":1404246026,"title":"Whats Your Job?","type":"story","url":""}],[7842645,{"by":"mkrishnan","descendants":2,"id":7842645,"kids":[7885096,7844645],"score":2,"text":"Apple has released python/javascript/c# like language for ios/mac programming. exciting things about swift is it runs way faster than python/objective-c but with ease of scripting language syntax. How nice it would be to use the same language for ios/mac development as well as server side component.

Imagine a ExpressJs like framework for Swift along with npm like package manager would bring a type safe but still expressive framework running in a mac pro.

Any thoughts? is HN has similar thoughts?","time":1401828663,"title":"Ask HN: Any interest in Swift based server side web framework?","type":"story","url":""}],[7019147,{"by":"sph130","descendants":13,"id":7019147,"kids":[7019286,7019328,7019216,7019464,7031577,7019517],"score":7,"text":"Because I don't trust the results of google and how old they are I am going to ask the HN Community. I want to get a proof of concept out for an app. I am more of a UI developer and have dabbled in django/tastypie however it will take me a good couple days to get that setup in AWS. I have a data model that I could easily implement in a database (pretty good with SQL) but not tied to relational DB. My Question: What is the absolute easiest and fastest way to setup a restful web service based on a datamodel. (And I'd like to use json for the format) GO!","time":1389121802,"title":"Ask HN: Fastest setup for Restful Web Service ","type":"story","url":""}],[6210074,{"by":"rajnp","descendants":0,"id":6210074,"kids":[6210080],"score":1,"text":"This session manager will store Tomcat session details in AWS DynamoDB. Please feel free to submit pull requests :)\nThanks.","time":1376459019,"title":"Show HN: AWS DynamoDB Session Manager for Tomcat 7","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/pandiaraj/tomcat-dynamodb-session-manager"}]]

user:	rajnp
created:	August 13, 2013
karma:	13
about:	Software Engineer, interested in AI/ML.