seriously getting tired of all the people using such inane ways to grab attention so they can rant about something. It's like these people didn't learn how to be polite and kind in kindergarten. Ohhh look at me I'll use as many superlatives and curse words as I can fit in a page and jump up and down and maybe you'll flock to my site.
Sam Hart, Zed Shaw, and anyone else who feels like acting out like a 5 year old kid, it's time to go to time out. When you feel like talking like a grown up and a professional, please send HN a link and most of us will be happy to have a friendly discussion and constructive argument with you.
Why would you say this article is merely an attention-getting ploy? Seemed pretty sincere to me. And if you can't take "curse words", I can recommend some filtering software.
It certainly reads like a deliberately over-the-top rant, mixing in a little comic exaggeration as a spoonful of sugar to help the "TDD won't solve all your problems" medicine go down.
Alas, it's difficult to tell if the strawmen being setting up (e.g., tests preclude estimation) are part of a serious argument or just more dramatic effect to help underscore the general point.
I wish this post were separated into two articles, one of which discussed the genuine tradeoffs of TDD (such as the possibility of painting yourself into a corner), and the other of which contained all the spurious, unsupported assertions (tests cause scope creep, tests are blinders, etc.) One would make excellent discussion fodder, and the other, well, the Delete key is right over there.
Sure he might have a sincere message in the end, but the way in which it is presented gives the impression that the guy is a 5 year old throwing a tantrum. It's not the curse words that bother me, it's the childishness and unprofessional way that he presents his arguments.
