Isn't the car sharing app's map just 'representative'? Refreshing isn't going to help when they are deliberately lying to you.

No.

> Since it to­tal­ly re­fus­es to sync, I have to switch to the An­droid “recents” screen and kill it. When I re-open the ap­p, it’s OK.

Great book. I wish I had this when I was straight out of Uni with a COMSC degree.

This guy seems to really not like Sheryl Sandberg.

This might be a team wide thing at Amazon but I have seen mixing the two in a single team. Its called reduced hours and can be very helpful for people coming back from maternity leave (as well as others).

First thought is the maintainability of the code base. If you are building an iPhone game that will be out of the charts in 3 months and will never be updated, then go ahead with feature code delivery and no tests. If you want your system to still be working in 2 years time and you still be able to add new features to it in 2 years time then you need tests.

The more confidence you can get in your code change the faster you can add features. Comprehensive automated, fast running testing gives you this in spades.

Sounds great. I'd be worried about how this could scale but it sounds like a very civilised way to work.

Hopefully he can talk to some people about basic income.