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Re: 066 Caching an API | RubyTapas

liorsion — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:55:44 -0000

Sorry it took so long to respond..

I don't necessarily agree that stubbing methods on a specific object is an antipattern, why do you think that? When I unit test, I want to test the smallest possible code (optimally, even one assertion within that code) - given that, I would even stub out all the method calls within that method to return different results each time (true, false, exception) and see that all is working according to plan..

I agree to your point that this puts some strong dependency to the implementation - but considering the alternative, I think that's the best way to really test the specific code.

When you added initialize, and added the option to change cache, I think you've done something that's "worse" than making tests easier to write: you enabled a passing in a dependency (as you said) - that is not needed by your requirements - in effect, you added a feature that is not needed - in your case it was small but idealy speaking, that initialize method should've been unit tested as well, and also - who knows what people would do in the future with this changed cache - when there's no reason to add this at this time (other than tests).

If this discussion is mute because you've only hacked around for the railscast, let's drop it. However, if you disagree I think it's an interesting enough issue to discuss since I see a lot of people doing it, and one of us is wrong.. :)

Re: 066 Caching an API | RubyTapas

liorsion — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:09:59 -0000

Changing code in order to make tests easier to write always seem wrong to me. Why not stub @cache.fetch instead of adding the initialize method?

Re: 008 – ריפאקטורינג

liorsion — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:31:25 -0000

The subject was interesting, it's too bad you almost didn't touch on it but talked about cool stuff and interesting techniques instead..

So a few question:

When do you decide to do refactoring, and why?
Will you refactor to make your tests easier (like Eran seems to think)? Is this a good enough reason?

Avi (I think it was you) - why do you feel refactoring views has a different reasoning behind it?

Re: Trying To Understand The Need For Morphine (DI Framework For Ruby)

liorsion — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:11:50 -0000

Looks like a way for people who didn't come from ruby to continue doing things the way they are used to

Re: http://mporat.tumblr.com/post/10683457232

liorsion — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:28:51 -0000

Like any good negotiation, it's a matter of knowing the other side, what they want and what they need. The issues usually come with entrepreneurs that don't really understand VCs, what they need and what are the pressures that they have. They are usually viewed as the people with the money who don't take enough chances.

So I guess to lower frustration there's no other choice but to educate people. Your blog is one way of doing it (only, why not in Hebrew?).. well done!

Re: To Science And Art

liorsion — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:11:10 -0000

Well, I guess that this is why we're all here, right?

Re: To Science And Art

liorsion — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:32:10 -0000

I had the same discussion a few weeks back with my fiancée - she's an artist in her body and soul, and while she touches digital sides here and there - it's always only as part of her art.

I tried to explain how I see that today there isn't much difference between the two, and that they can never live apart, because it's inherit inside of us to love things that are natural, and so we love science that works. This is why most beautiful people can be "proven" to be beautiful in math. This is why, at the highest place, math, philosophy, physics and painting are the same.

She didn't buy it.

I also spoke to a friend of mine who's an engineer. He didn't buy it either.

I think that today's competitive market with startups, the internet and communication that comes with it, allows some of us to understand things that the rest are a little behind on. I think Peter Cooper and a few others understood it alone some time ago, and when this knowledge spread, more amazing things will be created.

Great post!

Re: Face.com’s API Now Lets Developers Scan 5,000 Photos Per Hour, Free Of Charge

liorsion — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:40:49 -0000

Each time a new release rolls up from face it blows my mind. As previous comment say, this guys are just working and doing, not talking. Kudos.

Re: מזלגות נגד סכינים

liorsion — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:22:10 -0000

הצבעתי. בהצלחה!

Re: בסיפור "שלושת החשמבירים", הפותח, ב…

liorsion — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:50:52 -0000

say what now?

Re: ‘Social Business’ is Past Retirement Age

liorsion — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:58:52 -0000

Totally agree. The distinction is very important. I also think there's so much more to E2 than being social, although that's a large part of it. And I agree that technology is one of the important things that we have to enable this.

Re: A Sea Change?

liorsion — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:34:17 -0000

I have noticed the same things with customers.

I think there are two reasons that work in paralel here. One is that after the early adopters, the market is slowly starting to follow up. We see Gartner reports, and a large increase in media coverage of enterprise 2.0 and as people read it, they understand the change is not only coming, it's here.

One of the most important quotes I got on the subject was from a CIO who said that the reason he was looking for more social tools was not because he thought it was the right thing to do, but because all the new recruits are looking to work with social tools. It just works better for them - and he saw the trend and had to react.

So that's the other way E2.0 will grow, as we like to say it - Win The Users first.

Re: Please, Arrington, don’t pick another enterprise clone

liorsion — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:01:10 -0000

The enterprise world is getting some heat lately, and as the technology and crowds mature, it's definitely time to start migrating great apps from the consumer world to the enterprise, and no second can be too early for the poor starved crowds in the cubicle.

However, thinking that migrating a service to the enterprise is just copying it and there's no innovation involved is misleading concept. The challenges in building organization and a product a company would be willing to buy upfront, understanding the ROI issue and more importantly, allowing your customer to immediately understand them, and maybe the most difficult challenge - giving a real value to the users (employees in this case) that will make them USE the system - is extremely difficult, and a lot of innovation is needed there (and true to that - no one really made that happen yet, maybe other than SFDC)

Re: Is the project manager the “boss” of the project team?

liorsion — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:28:01 -0000

Bill - you raise a strong point. If no one is the boss, who is responsible?

I suggest a different approach, at first it my sound childish but if you manage to teach your group and organization to believe an act on it, you'll get a winning team. I suggest that the entire team would be accountable. If the project fails, they all failed. There's seldom one point of failure in a project, and trying to pin point a single person who "was responsible to make it work and didn't", while a very relaxing concept - is mostly isn't true.

The entire team is to blame when a project fails and to praise when it succeeds. Communication, stepping up to challenges, covering for each others' weak points - that's the way to make a project work, imho.

Re: Is the project manager the “boss” of the project team?

liorsion — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:59:20 -0000

but not always everyone understood and acted like that..

Re: Is the project manager the “boss” of the project team?

liorsion — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:10:42 -0000

What is the meaning of single accountability? You're the person to fire when the project fails?

There should be people that make sure the project succeeds, and just to make life easier, we can make that a single person. They're in charge, or the owners, of the project or task. They can be the project managers, or not, if your team acts properly, I wouldn't think it's always the same person.

Re: Is the project manager the “boss” of the project team?

liorsion — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:08:22 -0000

Great vid Josh. I totally agree with the approach that we should avoid the concept of "bosses" and approach enablers and facilitators more - depending on the project, product and team of course.

The times of one person knowing all/directing all/managing all are coming to an end.. it's a team effort game today, and the sooner people understand it, the sooner projects would start improving..

Re: Work-Life Balance : How To Get Ahead Without Killing Yourself

liorsion — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:57:11 -0000

Josh,

Totally agree with you on some points, other than the multitasking one - personally I find it easier to multi task and it works great for me, but I know many people don't work like that. I think that kids those days, raised to be multi taskers from day one, will look at this world differently.

I strongly agree with the meeting part, and I would add that most meeting are not worth having from the get go. Think what remote teams are doing, meet only when you have to. Learn to write and express what you need, READ what other express, and talk. You'll need much less meeting time.

Re: Waze תספק למפתחים גישה חינמית לפיתוח אפליקציות מבוססות מפה

liorsion — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:05:56 -0000

האם זו לא גישה זהה (ומפות זהות) לפרימפ עליו מבוסס וויז? רק ששם זה חינם?

Re: דיווח: חברת ההשקעות הרוסית DST הגדילה את אחזקותיה בפייסבוק ליותר מ-5%

liorsion — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:46:07 -0000

מענין יהיה לראות את ההשפעה של חברה בפייסבוק וזינגה באותו זמן..

Re: סקר TIM לספטמבר: עלייה בחשיפה ל-Ynet ולפייסבוק

liorsion — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:18:37 -0000

אני עדיין מנסה להבין מה יכול לגרום לינט לקפוץ ככה. כמובן שיש להתייחס לסקר בזהירות, אני מסכים, אבל יש להתיחס אליו - אחרת לא היינו כותבים כאן.

מענין אותי לדעת האם החגים השפיעו - ואיך. האם בחופש אנשים מסתכלים יותר באינטרנט? האם אלו קבוצות מסוימות שלא מסתכלות לרוב כי אין להן זמן?

ואז - הקבוצות האלה באות למותגים מוכרים, כמו יינט, ומקפיצים אותם?

לפי זה, בחודש הבא יינט יחזור לרדת אני משער.

Re: סקר TIM לספטמבר: עלייה בחשיפה ל-Ynet ולפייסבוק

liorsion — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:34 -0000

מה אם איזה ניתוח קצר שנותן השערות וסיבות לשינויים? קצת יותר מענין בכתיבה מחדש של הדוח בכמה מילים..

האם יד2 ירד בגלל וויןווין, או ששניהם ירדו בגלל החגים? האם זו העליה ביינט?

Re: פרק 57 – יוסי עצבני

liorsion — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:27:22 -0000

יוסי, לקחת לי את המילים מהפה. השירות בארץ על הפנים. אין לפטופ חילופי, לא בודקים עד הסוף מה שמתקנים, איכות נמוכה של שירות.

Re: בשביל מה טוויטר צריכה עוד 100 מיליון דולר?

liorsion — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:18:20 -0000

אישנר,

בטוויטר אין תוכן אמיתי? אם אתה יכול לספור על יד אחת את מספר הפעמים שהיית שם, איך אתה בכלל יכול לטעון משהו?

אני לא בעד אנשים שצועקים הו-הא על כל דבר חדש, אז לא תמצא אותי עומד וצועק כמה טוויטר מדהים ואיך הוא שווה מאות מליוני דולרים, אבל להגיד שאין שם תוכן ושזו בועה זו שטות מוחלטת.

Re: בשביל מה טוויטר צריכה עוד 100 מיליון דולר?

liorsion — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:16:08 -0000

הי מעיין,

שכחת לציין משהו קטן - יש לך מושג מהו קצב השריפה החודשי של טוויטר?

אני באמת לא יודע, אבל אני זוכר את הקצב של פייסבוק, וטוויטר כאפליקציית ריל טיים, בטח שורף מספרים מאוד גבוהים גם כן.

אם זה אכן המצב, ייתכן שטוויטר צריך את זה כדי לנשום מספיק זמן.