The sad reality is, even after reading this article most folks will resolve to once again, blaming others for the things they don't have. It's not that most people don't know they should work harder to strive for their own, but rather it's a lot easier to blame someone else, and humans are naturally lazy. Most people know, but don't act, imho.
I wonder how many technologies out there exist, which would allow us to go far beyond our current state of the world, but we simply don't know about them. In a such an interconnected world, it sure feels that innovations are not very well combined to move us forward. Good article, btw.
Actually, it seems there is no explanation as to what happens if you choose to opt out. I imagine they are required o ask you by law, but that's why they are trying hard not to make it very obvious.
One thing that is very good about this design and Instacart should adopt are the promoted/discounted items on the top. If Instacart tracked my most recurring purchases, and occasionally gave me this banner-like ads to recommend a discounted product, I'd click on it. I like how Doritos, for example, really stand out in this image.
That said, you know how clients sometimes say "Make everything bold so that everything stand out!" Well, that's exactly what you did. because you cluttered the entire interface with similar 'bold' content, everything now is a blur. It's virtually impossible for my eyes to focus.
All-in-all, decent attempt, but in my opinion, you did not succeed.
I like how Doritos, for example, really stand out in this image.
It's funny, just today I was listening to a podcast[1] where a guy from Frito-Lays talked about how they have a bunch of salespeople who are responsible for discussing with each store manager the position of the chips, the amount of stock, the promotions, etc.
I wonder if they're starting to reach out to Instacart and similar virtual grocery shops.
This sounds like a really neat service. Just about a year ago a friend and I wanted to do a filtering app for our own use, but didn't seem to find any straight-forward resources to apply filters w/out doing too much development on our own. This is awesome; we may actually considering doing the old app again, thanks to these guys.
That's cool. I am curious to see what Grubwithus is going long-term. Right now it's dining with strangers, but maybe in a few years it could be like flash-mob; hangout with strangers!
Yeah man. Tests take forever to develop. It's a lot easier to test manually, upon release. Sure, something is usually broken, but the time saved on rigorous testing is worth it.
If writing tests for your code is difficult and takes too much time, that is a pretty strong code smell that you're writing unmaintainable code or you are working within an unmaintainable system.
As to the OP's question, the only reasonable scenarios for not writing tests are weekend project style web apps and projects coming out of ad agency style shops where the lifetime of a given project is so short and rushed it doesn't matter whether the code base is maintainable.
The vast majority of places I've talked to in the valley, from three man startups to 100 developer shops, have reported some respectable level of code coverage. It is my opinion that you can read something significant into what is expected of your work and the priorities of the company based on their testing policies.
