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I was a QA many years ago, for about 5 years. Here are my tips:

1) It doesn't matter which test suites you use - I wrote my most valuable tests in straight Perl (ie no test suite)

2) The most important aspect of QA is communication with developers. Don't just log bugs and let devs fix it in their own time. Have a chat with at least one dev a day at their desk. Watch while they fix the bug - turn it into an almost social, non-pressured action. Many bugs can be quite traumatic to developers - your work is to soften this. Take interest in the code you're testing.

3) When you find an issue, only then start testing the issue. For each issue, try and find out as much as possible about the issue by testing it in as many as possible states, with as many as possible input sets. Try everything you can think of. Also try very hard to find a workaround for each issue. A lot of information about an issue is embedded in the workaround.

4) Never stop hand-testing. Never stop refactoring results of your manual tests into your suite. Treat your test suite as a product in itself, and log bugs on it.

5) Mastering QA will turn you into a better developer. You'll pick up good habits which you will never be able to shake again. You will write robust code. Above all, you will be able to communicate with QA.
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For large and complicated applications I do not understand what a good program
with not so good code will look like: I personally find it difficult to imagine.

The main problem I have with this article is the intent that is based on a distinction between
good code and good software. One intention of design and good code for large applications (in order to be good software)
is to try and cope with and understand its complexity - before it is too late - and not to underestimate
Murphy - who is waiting for us. And I don't know how that is possible (good design and maintainable code that
could be refactored more easily) without good code.
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TechCrunch Article:
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Press Release:
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Uncompressed, it's about 50% documentation and 35% fonts.
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Well obviously you just keep playing until you've won more than you've lost, and then you stop playing.
You're confusing the big labels with a heavy marketing presence with the wide swath of medium sized labels that used to exist but no longer do.

Now the situation is big labels pushing, mostly pre-internet era, artists with enough clout to penetrate global markets and extremely small niche labels with no market penetration.

In typical anarchaic fashion, digital evangelists diss the old way completely in a damn them all mentality, without really addressing the other half of the equation.

Recording music is labour intensive and great music is difficult. It takes entire teams of producers, coaches, engineers and songwriters to help a band polish an album to sufficiently high quality. Yet more people are needed for marketing, sales, pr, distribution, design, business development and so on. None of these people can be marked to zero. Great content is expensive.

Art is also high risk. For every 100 ideas, 99 of them are bad and 1 will strike a chord with the public and go big. That's just the way art works. It's not a bug, it's a feature. Art is taking a risk, despite the odds. But someone has to pay for that risk. The bigger the project, the bigger the risk.

To say that a label offers "nothing" is completely disingenuous and totally ignorant. Labels are not the enemy. Go out and talk to the owners.. most of them are very humble and genuine people who really do want to help artists succeed. I've talked them, that's how I know.

You want to know what happens when you put 500 musicians in a room with platinum award winning artists and label reps and lawyers? I can tell you since I've been there.. the musicians don't ask the artists much, but they ask the reps and lawyers a thousand questions about how they can make a living doing what they love in a world hell bent on devaluing their work.
Benchmarks at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_f... appear to paint a picture of a much more balanced performance profile for bulldozer chips. It does well in threaded applications and where code is recompiled for it.

I cringed a bit when I saw this on arstechnica - the linkbaitey headline, the image of a burning bulldozer, the lack of any benchmarks that you ran yourself and the fact that data is presented in a lopsided fashion. Here are a few examples -

a) If you look at the actual prices for the Xeon system and the AMD system you can see that the price of the system is entirely dominated by the cost of the SSD drive. Of the ~1.5 Million in before discount price nearly 1.2 Million is for the SSD in the AMD system. While in the Xeon system 485k of the roughly 740k price is the SSD. Penalising AMD for that seems unfair. Also it remains unclear what the SSD in the AMD at double the cost of the Xeon SSD does for performance.
b) In the SPEC JBB2005 section where the bulldozer 6200 scores 1.25 million bops, the 6100 gets 0.981 million, and the Xeon has 0.975 million you explain away the high performance saying that this exists only because of a higher number of cores.
c) For the SAP section - "the 6200 scores 31,720 SAPS, the 6100 scores 24,020, and the Xeon gets 28,480. The 6200 system, with 33 percent more processors than the 6100 system, gets 32 percent more performance." Heres a test that clearly contradicts your Bulldozer is absymal narrative.
d) In the end you write - "AMD is boasting that Opteron 6200 is the "first and only" 16-core x86 processor on the market. Not only is this not really true (equating threads and cores is playing fast and loose with the truth), it just doesn't matter. " - except in the SPEC JBB2005 test where you yourself said that "But these results are still cause for some concern. The 6200 part has 33 percent more cores than the 6100 part, as well as a minor clock speed advantage. Its performance in this CPU-stressing benchmark is only 27 percent greater than that of the 6100. "
e) Next time please run some benchmarks of your own.
With the countless and varied security holes that Adobe's Flash implementation has had over the years, I don't think having a "secure" RNG counts for much.
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It might appear to some like a tiny detail, but things like this break the web. HTTP status codes are there for a good reason.
A similar situation is when your provider redirects you to its own search page instead of giving you the 404.
There's a long, convoluted history of issues between the Koha community and Liblime over community 'assets', some of which is summarised here:
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Could you please present your "am[p]le scientific evidence [...] that sexual orientation can't be changed".

I do not have scientific studies, and do not know off hand if there are scientific studies. But there are loads of people who went through these 'treatments', and it didn't work.

And there are plenty of gay men who would have slept with women when they were younger. Especially in the 1960s/70s UK. Just look at all the married, right wing coversative politicans who are caught with male prostitutes.
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All those anti-SOPA letters and writings are useless and even hypocritical until people who write them stop supporting SOPA with their money. If you are not going to endure the inconvenience of boycotting SOPA supporters (Apple, Microsoft, MPAA, RIAA and others) to protect your freedom, you probably do not deserve the free Internet. Freedom has its price.
Link? I'd say your ID is too big (pg has an essay on it). If you say Lisp is crap, I'm not going to be offended even though I think it's a great language. It's something I use, it isn't part of who I am.
I went by what the GP said.
However, "the work being done", is now "get paid as much as possible, while bribing government officials to cover our losses". And for this work, they are choosing exactly the right kinds of candidates.

You seem to believe that working hard and creating things that actually benefit society are what is rewarded most by that society. This belief is fair, reasonable, and wrong.
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So what do they need to make exactly? For me, anything beyond FU money is pretty much irrelevant.
The question is, does an offer like this seem totally slave-labor lame and offensive, or does it sound like a unique opportunity to work on a project that we plan to take national and then global from a groovy location?

Heh, I am already an underpaid slave. And in perennially-grimdark Sweden to boot. I get no vitamin D outside of pills and the main high point of the week is paying out your ass for overpriced alcoholic painkillers on Saturday night.

Maybe to overpaid snotty Americans your offer sounds bad, to me it sound totally bad ass :)
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Because the author copied the link from some Facebook post, and all links outside Facebook are proxied like that.
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I am working on it. Thanks for pointing it out once more!
Sadly seems to only play in the UK :(
What was Dennis Ritchie's exceptional "other talent"? Sergey Brin? David Patterson? Yale Patt? Linux Torvalds?

Conviction?
"... A 4GB TeX distribution dependant on over 100 binaries is not acceptable on the iPad. It is incapable of delivering the slick user experience that the iOS platform’s adherents expect and love ..."

Xterm (iSSH) to linux box? ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280730
How do you plan to solve the scams problem? I also think that people should be able to invest without restrictions, but I understand where those limitations come from.
You are falling for the illusion. Because driving is a privilege, not a right, speeding tickets are a control on a population.

Speeding pullovers allow them to run all sorts of background checks on you, possibly search your possessions, copy your cellphone contents, etc. It's a 112k person-a-day sampling of the population.

That said, I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in well over a decade and rarely drive more than 5mph over the posted limit which is probably why. Last ticket I got was actually under 5mph in a speed-trap town (which I now avoid).

What I fear is the switch to speed cameras from speed police. Because you have little to no right to contest a speed camera ticket or examine the possibly faulty code that some unknown programmer put into it.
Is there any reason this is marked as scribd, when the link goes to a normal PDF? Usually I avoid scribd documents, but I noticed that the link didn't go to scribd.

[Apologies that this is Offtopic, but I was unsure where to post this question].
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I really don't get it, why the dying social networks like Myspace, Friendster, StudieVZ et.al. are not embracing the distributed social protocols like crazy.

OAuth, Salmon, PubSubHubbub, FOAF, ... everything is right there.
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I would say the have the best you can get on the market for low power, high performance with the Fusion chips. I have one in my Thinkpad and it has great CPU performance, excellent GPU performance and the battery lasts 7h.
It's not rare at all. A double takes up twice as much memory as a float and memory bandwidth is a precious commodity these days. If you have a lot of numbers (e.g. in 3D models or similar) and don't need the extra precision, using floats is an obvious choice.
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Yeah. Gopher and Archie. And you would 'talk' with someone. People had shell accounts.

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The population of the US is (or was at a recent instant in time, since it's never static) 308,745,538 , and not 208,745,538 as he claims. All of his statistics are off by ~50% throughout the rant. And it just goes downhill from this basic error.
The implication of what you are saying is that Google has determined that openness is a strategy they have failed to make work.
Steve Albini, 2010, GQ interview: This is a terrific time to be in a band. Every band has access to the entire world by default. I know quite a few bands that have been able to establish themselves internationally based on nothing other their web presence. It's an incredible tool. It's also revived the careers of a lot of bands that came before the Internet era and never had enough penetration to find their natural audience. But because the music survived, some people were interested in disseminating it for no other reason than because they like it. People put stuff on YouTube or torrent clients or whatever, not because they're going to make money off of it, which is the only reason the mainstream industry would do something, but because they think it's good. It's a like a worldwide mix tape. An awful lot of bands that had no audience in their first incarnation were able to revive their careers and have a second lap. It's so exceedingly rare that somebody gets more than one bite at an apple like that. I think it's fantastic.

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/09/steve-albini.html
This sort of touches on my main dislike of speeding tickets. It is basically the definition of a police-state. In a police state, all of the citizens are always breaking the law. It is therefore up to the police to selectively enforce the rules on those that they deem deserve punishment.

I grew up in Northern New Jersey where 'racial profiling' was a big problem. But really the main issue was that everyone on the NJ Turnpike is driving 70-80 MPH every day. The posted speed limits are a joke. I was passed by a patrol car while I was doing 85 once. If I had been suspicious (i.e. african american), I might have been pulled over.

Moreover, I think it teaches a bad lesson about law enforcement: everyone is doing it and it's only a crime if you get caught.
It's an interesting development, but unfortunately not tested on humans yet. So we don't know yet the real resolution for human eye.
I hope ES.next gets a bunch of the goodness that is outlined in Harmony - this would mostly eradicate the need for stop-gap libraries like pd, or transpilers like CoffeeScript. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:object_litera...

And being able to do

var obj = protoObj <| { ... properties ... }

would be fantastic. If I that, and short function syntax then I'd be happy.
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Most video games use floats. This is because doubles will be emulated in software on some platforms, thus making them incredibly slow. The Unreal Engine, for example uses floats extensively.
Penicillin is produced, distributed and sold. I've bought it more than once and consider it to be a product. What do you feel is the necessary criteria for something to called a product?
I'm not trying to troll, I'm genuinely curious:
'Search your possession' and 'Copy your cellphone contents' if you were pulled over for going to fast with a car are hyperbole and doomsday scenarios, right?

This isn't actually reality?
What are your house rules regarding bringing over friends, playing guitar, staying up late, fapping, etc? :)
Hacker News will automatically attach a scribd link to any pdf.
Someone call the UX police. Cannot read that. Looks like it got lost from 1995.
What makes you expect the 'good-old Google' to come back?

They have been steadily moving in a more and more closed direction for years now. What would cause that trend to change?
You need all three I'm afraid.

We need an easy way to mixin/extend objects.

var obj = protoObj <| mixin({ ... properties ... }, mixinA);

We also need a solid way to create instances.

object.create(obj);
obj.constructor();

is just too verbose. There is some talk around making `new` work with object exemplars which would be great.
In fact, you could run a remote Emacs and edit LaTeX with it, using the excellent AUCTeX package. Of course, that means you need to have a network connection plus a server you can ssh into.
It's not marked as scribd - there is an alternate link to a scribd version of the pdf. All pdfs have this extra link.

(Scridb is a ycombinator company.)
That's not a tag, the [scribd] is a separate link to a scribd version of the pdf.
That seems like a dramatic step backwards. I remember going into a Sprint store a few years ago to test their phones. All of them could power up, all of them were active and you could test the internet, make calls, send SMS, etc. Granted this store was in a pretty posh town but I assumed all of them were like that. Now 10 years ago when they had those stupid weighted dummies, that was ridiculous.
Did anyone else think about the Eyephone episode of Futurama when they saw this?
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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-11/tech/tech_mobile_californ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited police in that state from conducting warrantless searches of the cell phones of people under arrest.

"This measure would overturn a California Supreme Court decision that held that police officers can lawfully search the cell phones of people who they arrest," the governor's brief statement said. "The courts are better suited to resolve the complex and case-specific issues relating to constitutional search-and-seizures protections."

The courts said "there's no law against, so its ok". So California made a law against it. So the governor vetoed it because the courts had said it was ok. Police state much?
here..
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I was surprised when I saw:

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but hang on a minute! They actually want people to take the colourful ones! Most people are so mean, that they would rather save £1 and they don't care about the colour - and then there are lots of nice colourful pictures for the website. Compare the pictures on https://www.buymightyputtynow.com/ - how boring are they?!

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All they have to do is say they smell drugs or alcohol. Then they can search your car, bring in a drug dog and give it a fake trigger.

I don't even drink, forget drugs, and I've actually been stopped and searched while riding my bicycle down my street several years ago at night. Granted it's a bad area but still.

Right now around the world they are showing footage of cops using heavy duty military grade weapons meant for riots - against peaceful protesters - and you are questioning police overreacting and overreaching without an ounce of fear for their jobs?
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I guess the argument is that it's apple's "fault" because the restrictions of the platform require the whole package to be bundled as a single binary, instead of allowing a more modular distribution mechanism. Most of the contents in the 4G are extension packages.

But I am not sure if "fault" is an appropriate term here anyway, we're simply observing two different approaches to software bundling that happen to be incompatible.
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208 results? Meh :)

Some time ago I created a theme for my WordPress site, which I released publicly later. I included a (cheesy?) line in it (plus a grammatical error) and it is frightening to see it in 500K+ pages now:

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22What+I+say+is+immensely+...
So, go with LuaTeX ;-)
LaTeX is still massively used to typeset and print up academic papers.
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