I code in 3 different languages and write my own QA in each, but only because THERE IS NO QA department. Writing useful QA always takes way longer than initial coding of the script to do its intended purpose.
Coder's lament: "Why would a user *ever* do that?"
Because they are a different set of eyes and don't do the same things the coder does.
2 weeks ago I torpedoed my own QA handling an important script that had been working fine, QA 100% successful (so my report said). A "simple", backwardly compatible enhancement entailed a QA change in order to QA the new feature. For a whole day I was ecstatic that the QA **still** passed 100%.
Next day.. that sleep I got.. brought me to my senses.. I'm just not THAT good of a coder going back to an older script. A skeptical look revealed that the QA's "simple" change was allowing EVERYTHING to pass!
QA is/not/ good if it's done by the same person. (And you don't want to wait 6 weeks so that YOU are/not/ the same person you were, and THEN write the QA. Nice try..)
Everywhere it seems: Gotta have this done last week; call it what you want -- *Lie* to the customer.. they are too naive to complain.. too wet under the ears to blame YOU instead of themselves.)
I am a male of 146 pounds with no threatening anything about me.
I'm 70. An electrical engineer whose work took me to eastern Canada, northen England, Japan, and various big cities in the US and the most time in Titusville, FL. Having graduated in 1970, the environmental movement made a big impact on what I do. In most of the places I chose to not rent a car (nor use taxis), but took public transit.
My wife, though rather constantly worried about such things for herself, lived her 70 years with the exact same experience. We lived in the middle of Austin, TX all of that time.
Most people knew both would probably keep to their promise to leave, but not on the very next day! Drunks (and Uber drivers, evidently) are not known for making long range plans. It was the suddenness that caught them all without a plan.
My wording could have been improved. My comments mostly result in TLDR. I'm working on that (except at this moment).
Believe me, Uber & Lyft made a statement by leaving months before the deadline for compliance. They were well aware that they would disrupt many of their employees (one of whom I know) and, as pointed out in the article, left drunks without a plan.
Uber & Lyft have been roundly criticized for this "I taking my marbles and going home!" tactic.
My wife is going through cancer treatment, has 3 sets of glasses and neuropathy (and so a cane). She is also still testing the limits of how close she can come to her vision of herself before all this happened. She going to be OK. She is allergic to some enzyme in milk (goat milk, ok, cows' head stopped up, face swells. Takes about 2 hours to show. About 2 tablespoons will provoke the reaction). She, our son, her sister and one of her 2 sons have skin conditions (and other reactions) to wheat and we all assume its the gluten. I, on the other hand can eat anything.
I partially get the "funny score 3", if you include the [...]. My wife & I have had it with ink-jet printers when we print so little, so are experimenting with doing what your "Why...?" suggests.
I successfully sent our xmas card list to Office Max which is open until 9pm and is about 1 mile away. Cost us under 2$ (since I walked over there !Exercise!).
Last night my wife wanted to make gluten free oatmeal cookies from an internet recipe. We took the laptop to the kitchen, propped it on the counter. *I* was sure worried about getting it plastered with liquid and powders. My wife had to lean way over to get close enough to read the font. If we made that bigger, then she was scrolling up and down all the time... You get the picture. BUT... we did succeed (this time).
There is the problem of printing our password list. Its hard to trust the data path to printing. We haven't printed it. I can get a dot-matix printer for $200 after all fees. Just to print "sensitive" stuff? (We keep a dup on 2 computers so it won't likely get lost)
Well, also, maybe for emergency printouts? I dunno. So far we no emergencies, so no $200 gone;^)
We'll see if we can get through 2015 with this "no paper" through our (some adjective) action...(Trying to distance myself from the unwanted junk mail that DOES come to "Current resident". Ugh.
I read a little slower. I have no A-B-A "test" to tell! I never lose my place and the "book" lays open instead always wanting to close. Since I don't read for more than 30 minutes at a time, those things are a decent +.
My Mozilla variant, Timberwolf, really howls over that expiration. It took a fair amount of reading and 6 clicks to get the browser surrender and let me look at/.
Gnumeric + fill out PDF's via Adobe + print + sign + mail
For many years now I have done our taxes with Gnumeric on my Amiga computer (which have evolved). We do a couple of the worksheets + the forms we are required to file. It gets easier to do every year. It *is* a pain when they insert new rows in the forms!
Once that is done, we use my wife's macAir with Adobe to fill out the IRS PDF files and print those. We sign the 1040 and mail it in.
I tried the online free Tax programs, but they were too much of a straight jacket.
Strictly as an aside, I understand a little better how what is going on with their calculations.
Any retail store and anybody you work for ALWAYS have quirks. We are going to have to live with that. There are gotcha problems every which way you go (even where you step).
Ask any avid brick & mortar shopper. You want something? You'll have to learn who offers what.
As long as all customers/employees are treated the same when they come through the door you should be happy.
You don't like what they offer? Don't go there. Don't seek employment there. Move to a different place... look there.
Our software supports the hardware so we don't feel any palpable, fierce competition since we always lag the hardware improvements and those get top billing. Our users are interested in knowing the changes that are meaningful to them.
Since I use our change logs to significantly build our "brochure" touting reasons to upgrade, maybe you all can pare down change logs to the "best of the 1000" to say "20"... a list most can bother to go through.
Please consider that there is not just "no progress" and "Katy bar the door". If someone suggests "Go slow" read "Go slower". How *much* slower? How *much* faster?
Given our lack of foresight for "the long term", whatever that is, I worry about anyone's use of "Proper perspective" and other black and white terms to such a broad topic.
It took me about 10 years to arrive at a multiplication factor of 2.4 for how much time it would take me to accomplish a task I was even willing to estimate. The hard thing was to truly, honestly, trying hard to give *my* estimate, one I really thought I could accomplish.
I am upfront with the person wanting the estimate. I tell them my estimate and remind them of the 2.4 factor they need to apply. (That irks them.)
They really wince when I say 400 hours and they have to write down 960. I also have to remind them EVERYTIME that the absolute maximum calendar time that will be devoted is 80%; MAXIMUM... you never get maximum unless the time*2.4 is less than 16 hours. Jeez. And people keep thinking that computer programmers are too optimistic.
I'm from Texas. I spent quite a bit of time explaining to a native Japanese engineer the nuances of y'all. I remember specifically talking to him about when to use y'all when there was only you and the person you were talking to around.
Take your time posting. I am reading this post and cannot follow. Maybe "the choir" catches all that you are saying, but I'll bet its nearly all lost on the rest of us.
Got rid of stuff via FreeCycle. Went to work (though its nominally a holiday, but I like my job). Did a pharmacy run for our 83 yr old next door neighbor. Now, I headed for a old school, high tech Austin annual New Years' party. My wife is recuperating from too much fun at *some* for the 3 restaurants we (all) partied at here, Houston, back here... However -- no alcohol for me on this very wet & somewhat foggy night. [Won't take my recumbent THIS time!] I wish us all good luck in 2013 (some 4 hrs 15 minutes from now)
I'm astonished at your reaction. I was one of the purchasers of the 1st run of the AmigaOne and has been THE computer I have used these many years. It has never needed repair. It was been upgraded on two separate occasions.
Mark me at the complete antipodes of your experience. Do you have hands on experience?
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I code in 3 different languages and write my own QA in each, but only because THERE IS NO QA department. Writing useful QA always takes way longer than initial coding of the script to do its intended purpose.
Coder's lament: "Why would a user *ever* do that?"
Because they are a different set of eyes and don't do the same things the coder does.
2 weeks ago I torpedoed my own QA handling an important script that had been working fine, QA 100% successful (so my report said). A "simple", backwardly compatible enhancement entailed a QA change in order to QA the new feature. For a whole day I was ecstatic that the QA **still** passed 100%.
Next day .. that sleep I got .. brought me to my senses .. I'm just not THAT good of a coder going back to an older script. A skeptical look revealed that the QA's "simple" change was allowing EVERYTHING to pass!
QA is /not/ good if it's done by the same person. (And you don't want to wait 6 weeks so that YOU are /not/ the same person you were, and THEN write the QA. Nice try..)
Everywhere it seems: Gotta have this done last week; call it what you want -- *Lie* to the customer.. they are too naive to complain.. too wet under the ears to blame YOU instead of themselves.)
Insert your own diatribe vvvvv here vvvvv.
Yeech.
I have never been accosted in any way .. ever.
I am a male of 146 pounds with no threatening anything about me.
I'm 70. An electrical engineer whose work took me to eastern Canada, northen England, Japan, and various big cities in the US and the most time in Titusville, FL. Having graduated in 1970, the environmental movement made a big impact on what I do. In most of the places I chose to not rent a car (nor use taxis), but took public transit.
My wife, though rather constantly worried about such things for herself, lived her 70 years with the exact same experience. We lived in the middle of Austin, TX all of that time.
Most people knew both would probably keep to their promise to leave, but not on the very next day! Drunks (and Uber drivers, evidently) are not known for making long range plans. It was the suddenness that caught them all without a plan.
My wording could have been improved. My comments mostly result in TLDR. I'm working on that (except at this moment).
Believe me, Uber & Lyft made a statement by leaving months before the deadline for compliance. They were well aware that they would disrupt many of their employees (one of whom I know) and, as pointed out in the article, left drunks without a plan.
Uber & Lyft have been roundly criticized for this "I taking my marbles and going home!" tactic.
In the TLDR world I was pushing my luck, eh?
My wife is going through cancer treatment, has 3 sets of glasses and neuropathy (and so a cane). She is also still testing the limits of how close she can come to her vision of herself before all this happened. She going to be OK. She is allergic to some enzyme in milk (goat milk, ok, cows' head stopped up, face swells. Takes about 2 hours to show. About 2 tablespoons will provoke the reaction). She, our son, her sister and one of her 2 sons have skin conditions (and other reactions) to wheat and we all assume its the gluten. I, on the other hand can eat anything.
Does this provide better evidence?
I partially get the "funny score 3", if you include the [...].
My wife & I have had it with ink-jet printers when we print so little, so are experimenting with doing what your "Why...?" suggests.
I successfully sent our xmas card list to Office Max which is open until 9pm and is about 1 mile away. Cost us under 2$ (since I walked over there !Exercise!).
Last night my wife wanted to make gluten free oatmeal cookies from an internet recipe. We took the laptop to the kitchen, propped it on the counter. *I* was sure worried about getting it plastered with liquid and powders. My wife had to lean way over to get close enough to read the font. If we made that bigger, then she was scrolling up and down all the time... You get the picture. BUT... we did succeed (this time).
There is the problem of printing our password list. Its hard to trust the data path to printing. We haven't printed it. I can get a dot-matix printer for $200 after all fees. Just to print "sensitive" stuff? (We keep a dup on 2 computers so it won't likely get lost)
Well, also, maybe for emergency printouts? I dunno. So far we no emergencies, so no $200 gone ;^)
We'll see if we can get through 2015 with this "no paper" through our (some adjective) action...(Trying to distance myself from the unwanted junk mail that DOES come to "Current resident". Ugh.
I read a little slower. I have no A-B-A "test" to tell!
I never lose my place and the "book" lays open instead always wanting to close. Since I don't read for more than 30 minutes at a time, those things are a decent +.
That *is* pretty funny. That and it hasn't yet been corrected.
My Mozilla variant, Timberwolf, really howls over that expiration. It took a fair amount of reading and 6 clicks to get the browser surrender and let me look at /.
Didn't any staff see that coming?
Gnumeric + fill out PDF's via Adobe + print + sign + mail
For many years now I have done our taxes with Gnumeric on my Amiga computer (which have evolved). We do a couple of the worksheets + the forms we are required to file. It gets easier to do every year. It *is* a pain when they insert new rows in the forms!
Once that is done, we use my wife's macAir with Adobe to fill out the IRS PDF files and print those. We sign the 1040 and mail it in.
I tried the online free Tax programs, but they were too much of a straight jacket.
Strictly as an aside, I understand a little better how what is going on with their calculations.
Any retail store and anybody you work for ALWAYS have quirks. We are going to have to live with that. There are gotcha problems every which way you go (even where you step).
Ask any avid brick & mortar shopper. You want something? You'll have to learn who offers what.
As long as all customers/employees are treated the same when they come through the door you should be happy.
You don't like what they offer? Don't go there. Don't seek employment there. Move to a different place... look there.
Does it have to be all or nothing?
Our software supports the hardware so we don't feel any palpable, fierce competition since we always lag the hardware improvements and those get top billing. Our users are interested in knowing the changes that are meaningful to them.
Since I use our change logs to significantly build our "brochure" touting reasons to upgrade, maybe you all can pare down change logs to the "best of the 1000" to say "20"... a list most can bother to go through.
Please consider that there is not just "no progress" and "Katy bar the door". If someone suggests "Go slow" read "Go slower". How *much* slower? How *much* faster?
Given our lack of foresight for "the long term", whatever that is, I worry about anyone's use of "Proper perspective" and other black and white terms to such a broad topic.
Thank you for that specific link. I had not read it before.
It took me about 10 years to arrive at a multiplication factor of 2.4 for how much time it would take me to accomplish a task I was even willing to estimate. The hard thing was to truly, honestly, trying hard to give *my* estimate, one I really thought I could accomplish.
I am upfront with the person wanting the estimate. I tell them my estimate and remind them of the 2.4 factor they need to apply. (That irks them.)
They really wince when I say 400 hours and they have to write down 960. I also have to remind them EVERYTIME that the absolute maximum calendar time that will be devoted is 80%; MAXIMUM... you never get maximum unless the time*2.4 is less than 16 hours. Jeez. And people keep thinking that computer programmers are too optimistic.
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Its incredibly cheap.
I'm from Texas. I spent quite a bit of time explaining to a native Japanese engineer the nuances of y'all. I remember specifically talking to him about when to use y'all when there was only you and the person you were talking to around.
Take your time posting. I am reading this post and cannot follow. Maybe "the choir" catches all that you are saying, but I'll bet its nearly all lost on the rest of us.
Got rid of stuff via FreeCycle. ...
Went to work (though its nominally a holiday, but I like my job).
Did a pharmacy run for our 83 yr old next door neighbor.
Now, I headed for a old school, high tech Austin annual New Years' party. My wife is recuperating from too much fun at *some* for the 3 restaurants we (all) partied at here, Houston, back here
However -- no alcohol for me on this very wet & somewhat foggy night. [Won't take my recumbent THIS time!]
I wish us all good luck in 2013 (some 4 hrs 15 minutes from now)
Thanks for the best description I can accept without immediate skepticism.
"On The Beach", by Nevil Shute
No other comes close for me.
And yet you (presumably) surrender to sleep every 24 hours, oblivous..
For you, with every wake period, your view of UNexisting remains the same.... as it will on that inexorable day.
I think it matters not which day that inexorable one is once you have reached your maturity.
I'm astonished at your reaction. I was one of the purchasers of the 1st run of the AmigaOne and has been THE computer I have used these many years. It has never needed repair. It was been upgraded on two separate occasions.
Mark me at the complete antipodes of your experience. Do you have hands on experience?
Please don't be anonymous. Can't build up any... well.. anything that way; and you gotta know you are worth paying attention to, no?
Thanks. I was just about to skip the submission, but, THIS time I sought clarificaton. You are going on my list of people who are communicators.