@marick I, personally, only say it in a particular context: when I am openly making a strong statement in order to draw out my respondents.
A recent instance: "In TDD, one should leave the microtests in the test file in the order in which you created them. Strong opinion lightly held, any takers?"
@marick
it seems to be a hallmark of self-styled futurists? and perhaps other assorted public pseudo intellect[ch]uals?
if someone means by it
"I'm a Bayesian",
so they're regularly updating their beliefs from new data without _over_ correcting (recency bias), that's good. That's not how I'd expect a Bayesian to identify themselves ("I'm a Bayesian" being preferable), but perhaps it's more meaningful to _tout les autres_.
@marick I, personally, only say it in a particular context: when I am openly making a strong statement in order to draw out my respondents.
A recent instance: "In TDD, one should leave the microtests in the test file in the order in which you created them. Strong opinion lightly held, any takers?"
@GeePawHill @marick
WRTO TDD example, in some micro-test frameworks I've used — which were somewhat lacking in preventing order dependencies — I wouldn't dare reorder microtests !
But I think I see where you're heading:
the order they're added is *likely* the order they should fail in, so that the first fail is the most informative.
So I'd say reorder iff the most informative all-simpler-tests-before-this-pass, this-&-multiple-from-here-fail order is not the order added, so swizzle it.
@GeePawHill @marick
👍 Your singular 'opinion' (vs. plural) used as a marker, combined with addition of "any takers?" is nice!; a humble, honest alternative of the card-table "Change My Mind" meme-template (which generally oozes non-humble inflexibility and frankly sea-lion levels of "just want to discuss" argumentativeness).
