Lars Wirzenius

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Having a test suite that you trust enough to release if it passes is good. But after you have that, you start wanting improvements to the test suite, such as it either running much faster, or much slower.

Faster is good, because it makes development go faster. If the whole test suite runs in a couple of seconds, you don't get much of a chance to be distracted while waiting.

Slower is good, because it means you can do household chores while waiting for the test suite to finish. On the other hand, if you need to iterate enough, you end up wanting more robots in your house: once your washing machine, dishwasher, and vacuum are all busy already, you start entertaining thoughts about machines to wash windows, change bedsheets, and arrange cables neatly.

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I wonder if one could use a couple of smallish soft pads like the ones used to clean aquariums with a solar panel and a small motor, so that they recharge during the day and then move randomly on the window while there is no sun.

They'd need to be cheap enough that one should be able to buy one per window panel, however, and probably also won't work where the night-day cicle is very unbalanced.

Maybe having to put them on the window when they are needed (and then on a recharge pad) would be more practical.

Changing bedsheets sounds more complicated, and cables belong to the Dukes of Chaos and any attempt to arrange them neatly is bound to backfire :)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2015-06-13T09:27:01Z

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