The Swiss army has long been a militia trained and structured to rapidly respond against foreign aggression. Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20 in the Rekrutenschule (German for "recruit school"), the initial boot camp, after which Swiss men remain part of the "militia" in reserve capacity until age 30 (age 34 for officers).
Each such individual is required to keep his army-issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm Sig 550 rifle for enlisted personnel and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, military police, medical and postal personnel) at home.
...is a tiny little Heimlich machine to get them to purge their meals. Wouldn't want any of the little critters to be harmed, or PETA will be railing against science again.
Most developers tend to think that QA is for button pressers and failed programmers. However, having a couple of good programmers on the QA team can dramatically improve a product. If you're really a good programmer then you can take requirements and write GOOD tests. Also, as a programmer, you can deconstruct what the dev team has built, and look for ways to make it fail (i.e. the cases they failed to consider). If you understand the nuances of the language, you can better anticipate the edge cases that a lot of non-technical QA folks would miss.
I've been down this path, and found that when a dev team knows there's someone who will call bullshit on their submissions (and can back it up), the code that's checked in tends to be better.
Strange thing is these cost as much as they did when i bought mine 20 + years ago.. They should be cheaper now, so what is up with that?
If you figure $61 based on a google search, and calculate the inflation-adjusted price then you see that it's only actually $35.71 in 1990 dollars. So they have become significantly cheaper.
In my experience, the CYA document's biggest use is to provide a baseline for Change Requests (which are always billable) by a consulting company.
"We built what you signed off on. Now pay us a bunch more money, and we'll turn it into what you actually need. Oh, and we'll update our documentation for an additional fee".
I've worked in 100% waterfall, and in good agile environments, and I've found the key is to keep things small-a "agile", not to concentrate on capital-a Agile. Some places embrace Agile as a process, and fill binders with process documentation around their Agile process - at which point it's no better than any other.
I think the key to success is summed up in this line from T3FA:
"Most teams are not adopting scrum, extreme programming, or another specific Agile approach, but are embracing agile as an ethos or philosophy and cherry-picking the best bits from many different process models to develop a formula unique to their own situation," according to the report.
There is an aspect of Religion in the Social Policy "Piety". Items such as "Mandate of Heaven" and "Theocracy" are in there, and they affect your civilization's happiness and culture.
There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
But did you read the OTHER review on Amazon?
"Super Principia Mathematica was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote."
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I'd suggest that you limit your email testing to either address you own, or else domains like "example.com" that are reserved for testing. Domains like asdf.com are routinely flooded with unsolicited email due to people using it as a bogus domain name. More importantly, by using real domain names while testing software, you risk inadvertently emailing sensitive data to somewhere it should not go!
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Interesting read...
The Swiss army has long been a militia trained and structured to rapidly respond against foreign aggression. Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20 in the Rekrutenschule (German for "recruit school"), the initial boot camp, after which Swiss men remain part of the "militia" in reserve capacity until age 30 (age 34 for officers). Each such individual is required to keep his army-issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm Sig 550 rifle for enlisted personnel and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, military police, medical and postal personnel) at home.
...is a tiny little Heimlich machine to get them to purge their meals. Wouldn't want any of the little critters to be harmed, or PETA will be railing against science again.
Most developers tend to think that QA is for button pressers and failed programmers. However, having a couple of good programmers on the QA team can dramatically improve a product. If you're really a good programmer then you can take requirements and write GOOD tests. Also, as a programmer, you can deconstruct what the dev team has built, and look for ways to make it fail (i.e. the cases they failed to consider). If you understand the nuances of the language, you can better anticipate the edge cases that a lot of non-technical QA folks would miss.
I've been down this path, and found that when a dev team knows there's someone who will call bullshit on their submissions (and can back it up), the code that's checked in tends to be better.
I used to be a necrophiliac too.... but one day the rotten bitch split on me, and it was over.
I'm sure you could mod one of these to do the trick...
stupid preview... changing links and stuff... it's http://bttf.com/index2.php
According to BTTF.COM, it's jigowatts.
LOFL!
The company that commercializes this tech will quickly fold.
I'm quitting Eve. The first one who gives me 1 Tritanium can have all my stuff. I've set up a contract in-game -- search for "Tritanium".
I did proofread it.... Then I went back and added the "e" for effect.
But typoes are okay, right?
Who'd have expected such prescience from The Onion?
That machine could be adding to the company's bottom line instead of just being a depreciating asset.
Actually, I have it on good authority that 1998 is about right for that UID.
Actually, I think it's Lisa Sparxxx at 919 guys.
Strange thing is these cost as much as they did when i bought mine 20 + years ago.. They should be cheaper now, so what is up with that?
If you figure $61 based on a google search, and calculate the inflation-adjusted price then you see that it's only actually $35.71 in 1990 dollars. So they have become significantly cheaper.
Excellent tutorial, now let's move on to the Oxford comma.
Dear God, I'm old.
In my experience, the CYA document's biggest use is to provide a baseline for Change Requests (which are always billable) by a consulting company.
"We built what you signed off on. Now pay us a bunch more money, and we'll turn it into what you actually need. Oh, and we'll update our documentation for an additional fee".
I've worked in 100% waterfall, and in good agile environments, and I've found the key is to keep things small-a "agile", not to concentrate on capital-a Agile. Some places embrace Agile as a process, and fill binders with process documentation around their Agile process - at which point it's no better than any other.
I think the key to success is summed up in this line from T3FA:
There is an aspect of Religion in the Social Policy "Piety". Items such as "Mandate of Heaven" and "Theocracy" are in there, and they affect your civilization's happiness and culture.
There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
But did you read the OTHER review on Amazon?
"Super Principia Mathematica was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote."
I don't understand why... Quicksand footage is usually gritty and gripping!
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I'd suggest that you limit your email testing to either address you own, or else domains like "example.com" that are reserved for testing. Domains like asdf.com are routinely flooded with unsolicited email due to people using it as a bogus domain name. More importantly, by using real domain names while testing software, you risk inadvertently emailing sensitive data to somewhere it should not go!