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  1. Hell No! on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 2

    I can say, as a lead developer and architect at several companies over the last 12 years, having a good QA team to catch all the edge cases makes me a much more productive developer. I have worked in many situations where I didn't have Quality Assurance, and the quality for when I did have QA was much much better.

  2. Re: Visual Basic? on Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers (cio-today.com) · · Score: 1

    Visual Basic has been based on .NET since 7.0....

  3. Re: Death to middle class on Bad News If You Make $150,000 to $300,000: Higher Taxes for Many (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm a family of 3 earning slightly less than that (within 10k of it though) and I can say its not 100% easy street. I'm a single income household, so it's just me working. I work over an hour from home (I would not be able to earn that income closer to home), so I have to pay for 2 cars. I then have to insure them. I have the mortgage on my modest home (It was only $211,800, so it's not exactly a mansion or anything -- your basic 2 story 2 car garage in the suburbs type deal). Groceries, health care (and I'm lucky my health insurance is cheap with generous benefits -- I used to pay a lot more) , gasoline to work (it adds up due to distance -- I easily drive 80 miles round trip commuting in one of the worst traffic cities -- Atlanta), payments on the appliances, telecommunications (can't live in the modern age without cellphones and Internet), travel costs to see the in-laws on a regular basis, etc... I know a lot of people have it a lot worse than me (my in-laws make $60k in Toronto and struggle a lot more than I do since the cost of living there is insane), but it's not like I'm flush with cash. I live pretty much paycheck to paycheck, it's just my expenses are higher due to various reasons.

  4. Hisense USA is actually not horrible... on Sharp To Americans: You Don't Want to Buy a Sharp-Brand TV (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I have 2 Hisense TVs (Hisense branded, not Sharp branded). My Smart TV that I purchased failed (the LED backlight stopped working), and they replaced it with a brand new much better model with no issue under warranty when it was almost 2 years old. The replacement was made in Mexico, not China, even. Hisense USA is based in Atlanta (Suwanee GA), not China, though their parent company is Chinese.

  5. Re: As soon as you're invited to visit, I agree (n on Wyden To Introduce Bill To Prohibit Warrantless Phone Searches At Border (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone needs a visa to enter. For those, CBP has to perform a level of scrutiny, and the need to determine if the visitor is really a visitor. A visitor should come here to visit, not seek employment, support themselves, and return home. Part of phone checks for visitors is to do a check to see if there are plans to work in the USA. Should there be rules around it? Yes. Should they be able to do it? Yes.

  6. Metro Atlanta on Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? · · Score: 1

    It's a large metro area with lots of suburbs -- and many tech companies in the area -- in both downtown/Buckhead for the urbanites as well as many of the suburbs. And housing is affordable -- you can rent a house for under $1000/mo and own a big house for under $200k (with very big houses just above $200k -- mine is a 6 bed / 4 bath brand new build at $211k)

  7. Re: FTFA a big laugh on Coming Set-top Box Mandate May Help Break Pay TV Firms' Hold Over Viewers (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume your secondary boxes are RNG150s? Call Xfinity and have them swapped for Xi3s. They support rewinding.. As well as a lot of other stuff.. Plus they are smaller and use less power

  8. Re:That implies obliteration of the ad industry. on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    Not me. I work in the ad technology industry. I actually like my job. It's not like you'll be hurting the ad technology industry much, but it will mean your favorite websites (including Slashdot!) will have less income due to lower average value of impressions (a generic non-targeted impression is worth a lot less to an advertiser than a targeted impression). The ad tech companies themselves charge the same to their clients (the ad agencies for buy-side and the online publishers for the sell side) regardless of if the impression is targeted.

  9. Re:StraightTalk on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    I was unaware the $30 plan did not support the BYOD SIM plan. That sucks. It would be awesome if they did for people who don't need anything fancy.

  10. StraightTalk on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 5, Informative

    StraightTalk has a program just for this called StraightTalk SIM. It's $30/mo for 1000 minutes / 1000 texts or $45 for unlimited.

  11. Not really needed on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 5, Informative

    I dropped out of college (was in the CS program, but barely completed the early requirements), and I have a really good gig as a senior software developer. It takes a bit more to get your feet in, but in general, most places I've seen could care less about the degree if you can get the work done.

  12. Re:Good riddance! on Google To End Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    It does.

  13. Re:It's in black and white on FCC Probes Google and T-Mobile For Double-Whammy Fees · · Score: 1

    If you purchase the phone outright, T-Mobile gives you the option of getting a plan without a contract, for $20 less a month

  14. Re:No excuse. on Developer Stigma After a Bad Or Catastrophic Release? · · Score: 1

    Almost all of the software I have worked on commercially has been successful, and none of it has been open source (I have worked on open source projects, just not as a job). However, I also have a manager who is a developer with an MBA (he was a developer, and he got the MBA while developing) and a project manager who knows technology. Even the requested upgrades to the legacy systems we have get done on schedule and on budget

  15. Re:not news on A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, GA (a suburb of Atlanta) has one to. They also do radio ads as well for various forms of cancer, as well as a big banner in front of the hospital) http://cancer.wellstar.org/content.aspx?id=38605&section=cyberknife

  16. Re:Browser's fault? on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    I work for a rich media vendor (basically, middle men between ad agencies and website publishers for rich media advertisements), and we reduce our impact on page load time by using fast edge servers via a content delivery network to serve our JavaScript file, whether on the page or on the ad server's iframe, and then not load content until after the page is finished loading. Seems to work pretty well, as we recieve very few complaints from most of our publishers (including Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and even Slashdot itself)

  17. Re:this is bullshit on More Students Prefer Interdisciplinary to CS · · Score: 1

    My school actually teaches 3 different classes:

    Computer Science (Applied Theory, Programming, etc.)
    Software Engineering (Programming, Good Design Principlies, User Interface Design, etc..)
    Information Technology (for ppl who wanna be sysadmins)

    Three very great programs..

    My school? Southern Polytechnic State University. http://cse.spsu.edu/