I don't know about living in one. But a good friend of mine in Florida built an earthbag 'meditation chamber' in his back yard after hurrican Ivan ripped out his 'meditation tipi'. Looks like a great, inexpensive place to get away.
More to my point, automation is okay as far as it goes, but it can't get the *whole* job done. I've seen too many spelling problems, color shifts, format (display) problems, and user interface issues that the robots just are not going to find (at least the pitiful ones I've been exposed to).
These are the kinds of issues that are embarassing to the site and laughable for the user, and are just as important as those gloriously damned APIs.
It's fine for a simple application, sure. But the more complicated the app is, or if it is tailored to a customer's eBusiness requirements (for instance), you will never beat a set of human eyes aggressively finding the bugs. It can take as long to write the script or set up the robot as it does not just do it.
They made fun of the whole idea on their morning show today. Legitimate list or not, it's being ignored. The comment that stuck with me this morning on X103 was, "We can't get a raise because there's some expensive jerkoff in a suit with nothing else to do but come up with this nonsense".
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I don't know about living in one. But a good friend of mine in Florida built an earthbag 'meditation chamber' in his back yard after hurrican Ivan ripped out his 'meditation tipi'. Looks like a great, inexpensive place to get away.
More to my point, automation is okay as far as it goes, but it can't get the *whole* job done. I've seen too many spelling problems, color shifts, format (display) problems, and user interface issues that the robots just are not going to find (at least the pitiful ones I've been exposed to).
These are the kinds of issues that are embarassing to the site and laughable for the user, and are just as important as those gloriously damned APIs.
It's fine for a simple application, sure. But the more complicated the app is, or if it is tailored to a customer's eBusiness requirements (for instance), you will never beat a set of human eyes aggressively finding the bugs. It can take as long to write the script or set up the robot as it does not just do it.
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They made fun of the whole idea on their morning show today. Legitimate list or not, it's being ignored. The comment that stuck with me this morning on X103 was, "We can't get a raise because there's some expensive jerkoff in a suit with nothing else to do but come up with this nonsense".