Slashdot Mirror


User: Hognoxious

Hognoxious's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
33,194
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 33,194

  1. Re:MOOC = Massive Open Online Course on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    "User Acceptance Testing" is the birth of UXtadation. It's focused on users blindly using a thing with no training and assessing how they feel.

    If that's the case then they've hijacked the term.

    As I said, it was in use long before the UX fad. It meant, funnily enough, the project phase where the actual users, not the developers and consultants, test and (with luck) accept it. Sometimes they have different ideas from their betters on how things should work...

    It could also mean a system dedicated to that purpose in a typical DEV, TST, UAT, TRN, PRD landscape.

  2. Re:Bad idea on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Fail. You forgot to ask him if he has the needful 27 decades of experience in JavaNetScript+-+- 38.

  3. Re:MOOC = Massive Open Online Course on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mean "User Acceptance Testing", it was around before most uxtards were born.

  4. Re:black market of test takers ... on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone caught cheating should be transferred to the MBA program.

    Those who can cheat without getting caught are probably already on it.

  5. Re:MOOC = Massive Open Online Course on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    You're very clever, ho ho.

    However I've seen plenty of stories here that used an acronym with more than one meaning, and even in context it wasn't immediately clear which one it was referring to.

    If you're Stephen King a bit of mystery is fine. If you're trying to write a factual article it's just annoying.

  6. Re:Good for them on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    He's probably smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe. And where not to.

  7. Re:What about the other test can you get a loan or on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's a test of English, you should probably hold on to your money.

  8. Re:Are these sponsored stories? on Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I've lived in Belgium, and I've never ever heard or seen a reference to "Belgian Dutch", which still isn't the same as "Belgian". On bilingual websites it's "nederlands" or "vlaams".

    Why do Americans thing they know everything about countries they couldn't even point to on a map?

  9. Re:Are these sponsored stories? on Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    That's Flemish, you stupid prick.

  10. Re:Outside factors on Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners · · Score: 1

    Liberal arts majors on the outside never have to deal with nuanced and subtle issues like that.

    Either the customer wants fries with that, or he doesn't.

  11. I'm 37. I'm not old. on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    A team can simply have a "external liaison" hat that somebody has to wear, and whoever is currently assigned that function does the "explaining to the suits what is possible and what isn't."

    Looks like they should take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

    Do you think that all the decisions of that officer should be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting?

  12. Re:Build the wall and kick the undocumented immigr on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    When referring to people - even Mexican ones - you should probably use "who", not "that".

    Also, I'd have thought that it would make more sense to preferentially evict the non-slot-freeing ones?

  13. Even the word is stupid. The site doesn't seem to give any explanation of where it came from. Perhaps they all greet each other in Spanish?

    Now maybe it's due to other words (dem~, theo~, aristo~) or maybe I did too much chemistry, but I want to read it as "halocracy", which would mean rule by salt.

    I doubt in practice that would be much worse.

  14. Re:More ram needed for SystemD on Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows · · Score: 1

    systemd is so pervasive that it is part of Windows now.

    I thought it was the other way round.

  15. Re:Anything voted most livable exoplanet on Researchers Create 'Habitability Index' For Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    The bastards. At least with hipsters you know they'll be gone after a year or two, when it's gone mainstream.

  16. Re:Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    There are tunnels in Brussels that branch.

    But anyway, you don't need any external sensors - an accelerometer (or two) and a bit of calculus will do it.

  17. Re: Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    If you're so dumb that it isn't obvious why it's greyed out you shouldn't be driving at all.

  18. WTF on FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use · · Score: 0

    It's obvious they lack a clear idea of how to proceed

    Obvious on what grounds? That some random fuckwad on the internet disagrees with them?

  19. Re: FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 2

    It's clearly not a zero sum game, and there are clearly not enough men with ten years' experience and a master's degree who are under thirty years old & willing to work for peanuts to fill all available jobs which is why companies are trying to get some many foreigners in on work visas.

    FTFY.

  20. Re:We already had one on Researchers Create 'Habitability Index' For Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Classifying and indexing aren't the same thing.

  21. Re:Who? on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    he makes a living writing code and gettin' stuff kinda sorta nearly done

    FTFY

  22. Re:Propaganda has value to some on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    Unless it's bitcoin.

    OST, they've been pretty quiet recently. Remember when there were two stories a day (sometimes the same one)?

  23. Re:Outsider on Scandal Erupts In Unregulated Online World of Fantasy Sports · · Score: 1

    Leaving aside the fact that the second sentence is grammatically shit, you're talking bollocks.

    If the industry is close to an oligopoly, then inside information on one still gives clues about the others.

    For example, if I worked for VW and had advance knowledge of the emissions shenanigans I could shorted VW or I could have bought into BMW and/or Mercedes.

  24. Re:What's the REAL reason ... on What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? · · Score: 1

    The problem with your theory of letting "the consumer" decide is that it's stupid.

    In three years it will be totally forgotten, like Honda's sudden acceleration problem.

  25. Re:has the OP ever read the book?!?! on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you can break a project down into small parts and work on those separately, then you can save time.

    And if you could, you'd probably already be doing it.