The Baseless Critique Of Living Branchlessly
Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthis branching thing.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:05:18ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921769372577861633— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:05:18
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe idea behind branching is that it provides advantages in situations where a code change is large.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:07:21ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921769885776207872— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:07:21
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe idea behind non-branching is not to enter those situations.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:07:29ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921769919548715009— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:07:29
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthese two views seem very difficult to reconcile.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:08:18ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921770124717314048— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:08:18
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHilli am a non-brancher. i push to head, i pull from head, i test on head, i ship from head.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:08:57ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921770288227987456— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:08:57
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHilllet's take a second to consider the arguments against living like this.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:09:34ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921770443664699397— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:09:34
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillfirst, a whole team that lives like this is constantly merging out and merging in, and that feels expensive.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:11:09ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921770843600048128— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:11:09
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillmy counter is to point out that, as we learned with continuous integration, higher frequency of merges means far less pain.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:11:48ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921771008582995968— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:11:48
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillsecond, ongoing large-scale changes are always partially in the code long before they are ready for prime time, i.e. release.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:13:34ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921771451757318144— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:13:34
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthere is a technique price for this, to be sure. but there is also a substantial gain from using those techniques.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:16:01ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921772066721927168— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:16:01
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe price is that you have to learn and use the various ways to prevent parts of head from being exposed to the user.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:16:56ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921772299497492480— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:16:56
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthese include things from feature-toggling to code re-organization, with many small patterns mixed in, like strategy and abstract factory.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:18:22ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921772659062566914— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:18:22
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillit's a lot of technique to learn, and hence the price. (i know of orgs who try to solve all this with one technique, but it doesn't work.)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:19:11ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921772864080154624— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:19:11
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillbut the gain comes in two parts. overall skill, and longer periods of GAK and other alpha testing.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:20:30ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921773197552439296— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:20:30
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillwhat i mean by overall skill: these techniques i mentioned are not special cases only for this end, they're the meat & potatoes of coding.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:21:14ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921773382806450176— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:21:14
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillabstract factory, say, or strategy, these are techniques that have myriad applications in programming aside from hiding code from users.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:22:05ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921773596447596544— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:22:05
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillso my geeks will use exactly the same proficiencies they should already have, and if they don't know them, they should be learning them.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:22:34ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921773718199767042— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:22:34
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe longer periods of GAK and other testing is the second gain. (GAK = "Geek At Keyboard", a geepawism.)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:24:24ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921774177538990080— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:24:24
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe longer the code is in the base, the more likely we *all* are to discover infelicities before we get to release. this is of great value.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:25:31ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921774461002579969— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:25:31
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHilla third critique of living branchlessly is that it doesn't let us hierarchicalize -- org-chart-ify -- testing & development & auditing.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:28:39ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921775245832441856— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:28:39
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillhere we meet the ol' geepaw at his most annoying: "that's not a critique."Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:29:11ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921775383728525312— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:29:11
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe separation of responsibilities idea was always classic idols of the schema. looks good on powerpoint, does not work well at all.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:31:47ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921776037813514242— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:31:47
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillthe fourth critique of non-branching is a kind of protean thing, whose rough gist is the fear of shipping defects.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:34:48ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921776795334082561— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:34:48
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillyou've already seen one counter, the idea that the longer code is in place the more defects we can find in it.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:35:25ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921776949890027520— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:35:25
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Michael D. Hill@GeePawHillbut the real counter has to match the protean nature of the fear. it's amorphous, attitudinal, and involves a huge variety of cases.Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:40:08ReplyRetweetFavoritehttps://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/921778137532387331— Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill)Sat, Oct 21 2017 16:40:08
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