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  1. Re:The real problems are... on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Unit tests only test what the coder tested for. This is often only very trivial stuff.
    E.g. no one writes a unit test to cause a buffer overflow and tries an exploit that way.
    However one might check buffer boundaries, when he sees the specc or the source code and knows that there are boundaries.

  2. Re:The real problems are... on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    It is only a copyright infringement if:
    a) the video has a copyright
    b) you redistribute it

    Teaching purpose btw. is in american copyright laws explicitly allowed! But not necessary in every country.

  3. Re:The real problems are... on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you made a mistake then.
    Guava and Guice have no dependency to spring.
    Perhaps you got a pom.xml from somewhere that accidentally included it?

  4. Re:True. We teach problems instead of solutions on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't cross site scripting a bug in the browser?
    How exactly do you prevent exploiting such a bug?

  5. Re:Why the Moon and Mars? on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    So dying and getting reborn also means surviving?

    Mankind survived, single humans did not.
    And neither did civilization, just because a new civilization rose up again.

  6. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what you mean with your 100%
    How can a line of code be run only once without covering all options that lead to running it?

  7. Re:Why the Moon and Mars? on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I would say technology more or less stagnated, except for firearms and a little bit bigger ships.

  8. Re:Why the Moon and Mars? on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    There where several plagues.
    The first one around 500, and between roughly 500 till roughly 1400 there was not much progress.

  9. Re:Why the Moon and Mars? on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 0

    Human civilization survived The Plague
    Actually it did not. It collapsed and stagnated for 500 years and more.
    It raised later again, but that is not what I would call surviving.

  10. Re:I thought Slashdot was for nerds and geeks on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't agree that Islam is incompatible with democracy. Regarldess what label (e.g 'liberal').

    I only agree that the cultures in the mainly Islamic regions lived still in the middle ages 100 - 300 years ago. And my conclusion is: regardles what religion they had now, they would behave the same! And if you looked over various 'islamic' countries, you would see that they have huge differences in culture and expressing their religion, and many are actually democratic.

  11. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends what you conclude from them :)
    100% coverage is certainly better than 50%.

    Coverage is important for future refactorings, less for the quality of your actual tests. I'm not a big fan of code reviews, but tests I always review or insist that they get reviewed.
    For Java there are byte code moephing tools that that exchange all test operations by its counterpart. If your tests are 'somewhat good' all should fail after morphing.

  12. Re:Arianespace on SpaceX Eyes 19 Launches In 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you mix something up.
    Peugeot is the mother company of 5 car brands, all french I believe. Second biggest car manufacturer in europe. They have an electric car since last year, the iOn. Citroen, one daughter, has an electric car since roughly 5 years.
    Both together will introduce 4 new completely self engineered in 2019,

    Peugeot was the first one who introduced soot filters in all its diesel cars before legislation demanded it.
    I had a 2004 Peugeot 307, TDI. Over all I liked the car.

  13. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    100% test coverage is easy, with unit tests. Which are close to meaningless.
    Interesting is 100% code coverage with acceptance tests/ui driven tests/integration tests.

  14. Re:Arianespace on SpaceX Eyes 19 Launches In 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mix up France with Europe, and Peugeot is doing just fine :)

  15. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    QA is going away thanks to Agile development
    This is kind of an oxymoron. QA, especially automated testing is the corner store of agile methods.

    With Agile/Scrum the developers and users do the QA with happy faces/sad etc.
    What is that supposed to mean?

  16. It is a difference if there is a brawl or if the police is attacking people sitting in front of a door.
    About 700 injured is not "a few hundred".

  17. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They actually had a vote about it a few years ago and a huge majourity (of both ethnic groups) was against a split.

  18. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    CI means continuous integration, not improvement.
    It is automated build and automated test of a piece of software as soon as the source code repository changes.

    In other words: it is an QA measure,

    CD means that software is either promoted in form of binaries into a staging repository or deployment on test servers.

    A better way to ensure software quality we don't have right now.

    If your CI/CD does not deliver perfect quality software, then either your developers suck and write bad tests, or the integration tests don't work, or you have bad specifications for the development and testing.

    You no longer have a finished version and solid piece of software, and no way to stick with a particular version, which is especially true on the walled garden of iOS
    That is utter nonsense ...

  19. Re:Catalans Wrong from Beginning on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Because A Clockwork Orange plays in the UK?

  20. Re:Breakaway regions on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to be independent from the EU? Unless you are a welsh unemployed drunk who can not stand the Estonian accent of a beautiful girl serving in his pub?

    Your logic makes no sense. Obviously a country that once got conquered half by Spain and half by France, has its own language, culture etc. wants to be independent, wants to form form its own country, and be still part of the EU.

  21. Re:It's a complicated thing on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately most constitutions on the planet forbid secessions.
    I challenge you to check yours :)

  22. Re:It's a complicated thing on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You are right, and I believe the future EU will be a union of 100 regions and not of 20 countries.
    You are wrong regarding Luxembourg, though. It is not a city state, but a country like Belgium or Netherlands.

  23. Re:nasty situation on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There is a kind of famous book called 'Shogun'.
    There is a dialogue between an jap. Daimyo and an dutch pilot about the secession war of Netherlands from Spain.
    The daimyo outrageous called: 'that is rebellion, that is treason, that is illegal!'
    The pilot answered: 'Not if we win!'

  24. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That is your point of view.
    However you could take the opposite point of view: Catalonia is already 'part of the EU'. And it does not matter if it is as a sovereign state or as a region of Spain. Considering that all legal documents in Europe get translated into Catalonian already, that it is surrounded by EU countries etc. would be a strong point.
    Most of the Catalonians will have an EU driving license and perhaps an EU passport (noting the nation of Spain as issuer, of course)

    Plus, the EU would have to recognize them as independent nation in order to consider their application in the first place. Why?

  25. Claiming the EU is taking Catalonia's economic output is laughable given that there were calls for it along with the rest of the country to be booted out of the EU entirely for exactly the opposite
    You miss the fact that Catalonia is the richest region of Spain, and a region in the upper third of all european regions.

    The only people arrested were those who fought with police against their attempt to do something that didn't involve the citizens at all.
    That is nonsense. They beat the shit out of people sitting in front of the doors of the election offices. Including children and old folk.

    Compared to most other scenarios where people disagree with something the government does this was about as peaceful as the any situation could get. Strange, what TV channels do you watch? So I can avoid them ...