Über Tech Lead On Code Revi

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Argues that open source under-uses code review and that reviews improve code quality and learning by catching code smells and design issues tests miss, cites failures of TDD and pair programming for race conditions and readability. Describes Google tools Mondrian and the open source lightweight Rietveld (hosted at code-review.appspot.com, Subversion support) and warns about rubber-stamp LGTM culture and gaming metrics, recommends question-framing to avoid intimidation and a web UI that lets reviewers accept fixes in-line and re-run checks.

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1. 0:00Challenges with code reviews
2. 1:58Is no code review
3. 4:44Simplicity
4. 6:44TDD
5. 9:58Code reviews
6. 14:43Open source
7. 18:46Python culture

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