Me too, they were being aired as I was at university and our lecturer showed them to us.

One of the best things I learnt at university was the existance of Adam Curtis and his documentaries!

I love how he creates an amazing montage of footage taken from the BBC archives to help narrate his documentaries. He never creates new footage.

Wow, finally a crossword I have a chance at!

"Every developer"... that's a bold statement.

I don't think my code is so special or magical, maybe specially bad and magically bad...

Also I believe his name is Linus, not Linux ^_^

Maybe he doesn't consider people with such mindsets a developer :) ?

He just considers people developers if they think their code is special and magical? haha

I like hiding my code and hoping no one ever sees it and points out how bad it is.

I prefer code reviews of my code ^_^

In the real world, yes. I was trying to be funny.

I do prefer when the team/company at least starts with a decent set of coding standards for everyone to follow. Especially on projects with dozens or hundreds of devs touching things. It seems companies realize the benefits of that often after it becomes a problem.

Uncle Bob always has some clever things to say on TDD too: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/03/03/TDD-Harms-Ar...

and: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/11/10/TDD-Doesnt-w...

I don't find most of the Uncle Bob writes to be clever, and especially when he writes about TDD.

He's just too dogmatic to be credible to anyone working in the industry (and make no mistake, Uncle Bob knows absolutely nothing of the software industry in the 21st century).

His writings are only here to promote himself, his books and his consultancy. That's it.

I weakly agree with this statement. While I think there is merit to TDD under some circumstances (that others have described quite elegantly and succinctly elsewhere in the this thread), my main takeaway from the Clean Coder was that if I ever got super burned out I should just start a consultancy.

[addition]: I also find it weird how the Clean Coder seemed to encourage burnout by prescribing that you use your off-hours to hone your craft. While I agree that software engineering should be treated more like a craft (in particular, I'm thinking of the apprenticeship and craftsman ship culture that is prevalent in Germany / possibly other former Hansa areas), I don't think that it's reasonable to assume that people should sacrifice their personal time for it. I understand that sometimes this might be necessary (the proverbial night class to get up to speed with some new domain of knowledge), but his implying that surgeons constantly practice surgery during their off-hours (and really, short of illegally exhuming bodies, how would they do this?) seemed a bit of a naive and unrealistic ideal.

Thank you for saying this loud.

I would probably at least have added an id tag to the div with something like "rip-chuck". That was the first thing I checked until I asked a colleague.

Was the blast processing marketting only in America? Since I had never heard of blast processing until I got on the web years later.

It was coined by Sega of America's marketing team, according to this wikia: https://segaretro.org/Blast_processing

He never mentioned language, he mentioned nationality though.

I just assumed he discussed nationalities with regards to regional colloquialisms. Much like you're assumed he was discussing regional social attitudes.

I think he means physically close. In the UK and Ireland we don't like to hug and especially don't like to kiss cheeks with our mates.