Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
Whenever I hear an evangelist (and I label everyone dealing in absolutes like 'is X worth it?' without at least asking 'what?' and 'for whom?' evangelist), my gut reaction is to dismiss everything without even reading it.I work in an unconventional setting, where my code runs for a potetially long time and where failure means trying again. This has led me to use a lot of assert statements, both in a pre-/postcondition/invariant checking and in a more general assumption checking style. I still use unit tests, but only to exercise portions of the code quickly - the tests are often devoid of assertions.I find that this style gives me the best test coverage + internal code documentation for the time invested.