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philk10

My mood has got better since moving from Michigan to Denver
Re:Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:31PM (#50074442)
Gamma-ray burst
they play walking soccer
I avoided - or that was my intention until the game started - the 50/50s but my calf and hamstring still felt the pain the next day Totally worth it though
I went back to England last year and couldn't believe how many flags there were, I was shocked and not in a good way
that's not the role of QA to be a gatekeeper, they give the CTO and President information on the bugs and testing but it's a business decision to ship or not
Just a fan who became well known and often got in for free - https://chicagoreader.com/music/tapehead/
Re:Should QA Exist on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:11PM (#47547612)
Not really that impressive, that's Testing Quick Attacks 101
Re:Should QA Exist on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:10PM (#47547588)
QA? Or testers?
the worship of death? try all the videos of 'lethal kinetic strikes' on speedboats
somehow I dont think regime change is gonna happen before the midterms or even before 2028
Epstein files and plummeting poll numbers are more likely reasons
yes, there's a group still goes once a week on Monday and I go when I can. There's also one on Wednesday at the main Social Security office Totally normal people there, not being paid a dime
yeh, my natural pond in Michigan has lost about 15 feet, the snow we're getting now won't be enough to regain it
so as stupid an idea as the tariffs then
your question implies that the person in charge of tariffs has any idea of the effect of using them...
Re:What life is like in Minneapolis now on Saturday January 17, 2026 @09:52AM (#46658514)
It's rebounding on them, support for ICE is now negative They're going after the weak and easy targets and dont care about citizenship as Miller has set them daily targets
that sucks, hope you get to work with a good tester/QA person at some point so you get to see what they can do
so, QA should be noticing that the testers are raising tickets like this and step in and give the testers some guidance on what/how they are testing I've worked with a clients test team who were not given any training on the system so they were raising bugs like spam clicking button 100 times, quickly resizing window 30 times, pasting War and Peace.. gave them some training and direction and they started to find problems that actual users would be finding
They find all the things the devs and their automated tests missed, then they mentor the devs in how to test for these and they work out how the bug could have been found earlier. Rinse and repeat until the tester is struggling to find issues and has coached the devs out of his job
yes - testing gives information, what is done with that information is a business decision
how did misunderstanding a feature and writing pages on it help, not sure I follow the logic of why this made them a good QA person? Do you mean the features were not written well and so writing code for them was going to produce errors?
Communicating a bug clearly is testing/QA 101
yes - devs are great at coding so get them to write the tests and then I, a good tester, (not to be confused with QA) can work with them on what are good tests to write. With this in place I can confidently test to find the edge cases, usability issues etc And when I find them we can analyze how the issue could have been caught sooner

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