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36 minutes ago, Marvin said:
There seems to be an uptick in software QA needs. The doubling time for the number of developers is 5 years, so, if the companies have any brains, the need for software QA should go up commensurately.
16 minutes ago, Pimlach said:I should not be surprised. We laid off many over the past 10-15 years. The improved processes were cited the reason, but it was probably just cost cutting.
Isn’t Agile development supposed to embed QA in the process?
Kinda. Traditional waterfall and Agile aren't that different: build, test, rework, and pass. The difference is Agile "demands" short time frames, like a few weeks. Waterfall implements the same steps, but people tend to implement waterfall over time frames (months or years) that it was never intended to be used. It doesn't work well and needs a *ton* of QA to get this gigantic changes to work together after long development. The Agile ideal is you make smaller changes quickly so there's less integration. It can still bite you of course, but hopefully you get bitten in your test environment before you get close to prod.
The other really cool concept if software is Test-Driven Development. You write your tests with the expected results first, and then develop the software. It doesn't cure all ills, but it forces the developer to verify things. Modern software tooling has testing built-in to make it easier, when you compile the software it can run the tests at the same time and tell you if anything failed.
4 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:Well, they weren't my choices, I merely was a friend/peer/parent as they were made. I am baffled as to how you think my merely stating I've witnessed it being done is moral superiority. But, to each their own o guess.
You do come across as smug, whether intended or not. Definitely has the "I did it, I can't imagine why someone else might not be able to do it the same way." vibe to it.
14 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:She does door dash and works 4 days for 24 hrs at a local day care.
Interesting, does she pay her own car maintenance? Door dash and the other gig things like that seem to fall apart when you factor running costs in.
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22 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
In my field (aerospace and defense), we're actually in a pinch for SWQA folks.
I was thinking the same thing (aerospace and defense with a side of commercial telecom). The last effort I worked on had several people doing Software QA full-time as we delivered the systems to make the whole thing work. I can see dedicated QA trending down as the waterfall development method also trends down, but for now it seems like the jobs still exist.
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On 7/23/2023 at 12:14 PM, Doohickie said:
Here's you chance to find out.
That Buddy Christ sweater is kinda awesome.
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2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Leafs win the President's trophy this year - and go out in the playoffs first round.
That would be delicious.
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Happened to find the boating certificate thing, with the certificate phase-in info:
https://parks.ny.gov/boating/education.aspx
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Talking about age in a interview is possibly illegal under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA); most won't because it sets them up for age-discrimination complaints.
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4 hours ago, Taro T said:
Why would somebody quote the "AAV" aka the Average Annual Value of a 1 year bonus-ineligible contract? When you divide the sum of any single number by 1 it ends up the same. Would've been more fun had he provided the "median" or even the mean or the mode. (Hint: they all have a face value of $1,670,000.) (Not directed at you @Brawndo, but Mr. Seravalli.)
Especially when he uses the term "actual" before AAV. Will bet nearly any amount of money that DeAngelo doesn't ACTUALLY end up with $1,670,000 after everything is prorated to 50% of HRR.
It is pretty silly, although I could see using it out of habit as short-hand for "salary cap hit".
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On 7/21/2023 at 6:38 PM, That Aud Smell said:
The guy got fired. (That’s my sense of it anyway.)
I'll offer an alternate fantasy take: the Pegulas decide to sell AdPro, dRacculia got mad and quit both; or Legends didn't want him and he decided to cut all ties.
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21 hours ago, Curt said:
Players themselves have come out and said that the tax differences between certain situations can result in a savings of nearly 500k on a large contract ($5M+). It’s not an insignificant difference to the players.
I'm sure *some* players care about that 10%. Me? I'm taking $4.5M to play where I want over $5M every time single time. I seriously doubt I'm the only person that thinks this way.
FWIW, I moved from PA (moderate taxes) to NY (higher taxes) two years ago specifically to live in Ithaca. The tax implications were an afterthought (at best).
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9 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
New Car dealerships.
They just don't evolve with the times....for most of them it is ALL about the sale, all about squeezing every last dollar from you, very few actually want an 'equal' transaction between the customer and the business. I probably don't have to say much more than the cabin air filter costing $12 at Walmart or an auto parts store and taking me 3 mintues to install with no tools, but the dealership charging $50-$70 to do it...or how about when I DID change the cabin air filter but when at the dealership for other service, they tell me my 'tech' suggested I change it for that $70 even though I just did so myself a month ago? Or how about the time about a decade ago they told me I needed my brakes or suspension 'lubricated' and they suggest I get it done right away (for well over $100), when the owners manual didn't mention it needing to be done at all AND I drove the car for a LONG time after not getting it done with zero problems.
Here is the new one. Daughter looking for a new car to lease. Sent a simple email to multiple dealerships. 1.)what are the lease deals on a particular car (the manufacturer website doesn't list them but instead says 'contact my dealer'. 2.) how do they handle lease trade ins from other manufacturers? 3.) How do you handle a lease trade in from another manufacturer if the lease is getting turned in a couple months early. Fairly simple I woudl think....But no. 2 Dealers called me back within 20 minutes asking me to stop in. I asked the people on the phone about my questions and they had no idea what I was talking about. Just stop in and talk to someone.
It doesn't matter if I ask them one question, a different question, or if I write my email in French, Russian, or Kilingon. As long as they have my name and number, there is no way I'm getting an answer to my questions apparently unless I stop in. The whole reason for an email is that I don't want to and do not have time to drive to your dealership that is 20+ minutes away to get a simple answer to a simple question.
I can't help but think that when we visit relatives in Florida if I am bored I'll browse through the new car lots..and almost every car has a $1200 or more "Southeast regional adjustment" fee on the window sticker. One time a couple years ago I talked to someone and asked about it...that particular dealership in no way was going to waive it...mandatory. No negotiation. Tell them I'll go to a different dealership and they let me walk out. We took a 'boat tour' of the river/inlet that year and the 'tour' guide pointed out various things...celebrities who live in the area, etc...and then pointed out a HUGE house that she said was being built for something crazy like almost $10million..and it just happened to be the owner of several of those very car dealerships in the area.
Ugh. We bought our last car (used) from the local place, but I think we're going to try Carvana or equivalent next time. Our transaction was messed up from the start and we ended up driving on dealer plates for a couple months. Turns out the sold the car to us before they had the title in hand, and then that drug out for awhile (it was a returning lease where someone in Oregon was leasing the car for their daughter in Ithaca for school). It all worked out but wow.
I bought one car at a Subaru dealer near DC that was a straight $400 over invoice for every car on the lot. I know they didn't necessarily pay invoice for it, but I don't care because it eliminated that part of the process entirely. Only crappy part of that was they didn't send my NYS plates back (I had just moved) and some time later NYS suspended my license (that I didn't have any more) for having a car without insurance. That actually came up when I moved to Ithaca, but it didn't turn out to be much of a thing. The bigger thing was my PA license was only re-issued a few months before and because it wasn't 6 months old they wouldn't automatically transfer it to NYS. I even brought the previous licenses going back 15 years. I ended up just waiting until 6 months was up, lol.
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Just now, Curt said:
How much money do you think Matthews makes in advertising/spokesperson income in Toronto?
How much do you think he would make in Arizona?
Sure, Arizona, but NYC, Philly, LA, or Chicago (just to randomly name cities) would be close.
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1 minute ago, shrader said:
I'm not really listening to anything out there, so I have no idea if that's the rumbling or not. I just think with everything we've seen from him over the years, he doesn't look like someone who wants to stay there.
I think he wants to be wherever he can make the most money. Maybe that's Toronto, maybe that's somewhere else. I usually discount the whole tax argument for the most part (I think players will go where they can win or personally succeed, even if that costs them an extra few %), but Matthews might be one of those guys that cares.
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15 hours ago, Taro T said:
But are they legit or are they more Loaf fan fiction?
"Well, of course he wants to stay. It's DREAMY here. And who DOESN'T like Hall and Oates?"
Probably a combination of both. If Matthews is smart he won't say anything unless he's committed to burning a bridge. And The Leaf Blowers couldn't imagine anyone wanting out.
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33 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
I have gotten it a few times in the past few years. I'm not the person that gets it 'really bad' (I don't get huge boils or bumps) but it is really really annoying. For me once I get it, it seems to spread no matter for what I do...not getting better for about a week. I guess each person has a different sensativity to it. Our daughter just doesn't get it, i have seen her walk right through poison ivy and nothing...zero. Her boyfriend? If he gets it, it gets really bad and it last for over a month.
Ugh, I used to be like your daughter; we'd all go do something and everyone else would have it but not me. It was a wonderful time.
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I got a little poison ivy at least a week ago, and somehow new spots keep popping up. I assume the oil is on something I touch, but I can't figure out what it could possibly be.
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12 hours ago, ... said:
You can not want to wish someone luck with their present endeavor(s).
Or you already have wished them luck during the new endeavor process, and rewishing luck now would be redundant. Like this guy, apparently.
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What does the trade package look like if McDavid himself engineers the return to make sure the Sabres are still stacked after?
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On 7/15/2023 at 10:52 AM, PASabreFan said:
It's possible I've never had good pizza. At least not this fantasy pizza yall are speaking of. There's a local place here that I think has top notch garlic pizza. Other than that I survive on the chains. I'm high on Domino's pan pizza right now. I've recounted several times that I had La Nova pizza in Buffalo a few years ago and it was a sickly mess. I don't hear that name bandied about much tho. I do fantasize about how good some of this zza must be.
You're well outside the Buffalo "all the pizza is pretty good, some are better than others" radius, unfortunately. I'd think there's at least one or two good places in Bradford (right?), but I've never stopped there to have any evidence of it. I haven't had La Nova in a very long time (possibly 12-ish years ago when MsPie and I were first dating, if not then in the 90s when I worked at the Big G), but it wasn't my favorite back then. I haven't had many of the places mentioned here, we order from Pasquale's in East Aurora while we're in town since that's local to our parents' houses. I'm not sure it's great Buffalo pizza, but Pizza Plant is pretty good for interesting options; there's one right next to the Arena if you get the itch.
4 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:I could not agree more. There's a whole bunch of caveats, [Robin Williams Genie voice] provisos, quid pro quos that could be added to my "you do you" take above.
If you're serving Wings (and you're in a place where they're on the menu as Buffalo Wings), then you should offer the blue cheese side. If for no other reason, the blue should be available as a hat tip to the dish's origins, even if local palates don't command it. Like, if I'm ordering a gyro, there had better be tzatziki sauce available.
Speaking of which, I saw some social media content this past weekend (from a clever creator, Sam Al Khatib (he's just great)) that made me realize anew that some significant percentage -- 20%? 40%? 60%? ... -- of Wing eaters out there in the big wide whirled do not know why they're called "Buffalo Wings."
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35 minutes ago, SwampD said:
So, if it’s true, then why is there still a question mark in the title?
I have to assume it's disbelief, although that would be better rendered as:
QuoteThe Jacksonville Icemen are the Sabres New ECHL Affiliate?!!?
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23 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
McDavid will be turning 30 years old the first year of his next contract. Barring injury, he will still be great, but he not be the same player he is now. Statistically, forwards 'peak' point production occurs between the ages of 24-27. Gretzky in Los Angeles was still 'great' but certainly not the player he was in Edmonton...and he went to L.A. at 28 years of age. McDavid will be turning 30 if he signs with a new team.
Great marketing appeal? Sure. Great player? Likely yes. But not any better likely than he is now and maybe 'slightly' less of a player than he is now.
I'd be interesting to see if "elite" players follow that same curve. My guess is yes, but I could also see a high plateau of hitting their stride at like 20-21 and maintaining until their early 30s.
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9 minutes ago, Night Train said:
Ex-Sabre is his role.
I was going to say "opposing forward for 2-4 games this season".
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5 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
2nd complaint...and not to wade into the gender wars or start one here..but...why is it in the past 10 years whenever I personally had a conference call with a supervisor that was a male, the call lasted about 10 minutes...and when I have a supervisor who is a female the same material in a call takes up 45 mintues of everyone's time? My current supervisor...10 minutes of material takes 60 minutes with talk about her health, her weekend, her vacation, etc.
While I can't comment on your team, my team is predominantly male and we talk about all kinds or stuff on our staff calls. I'd say for me, it brings the team closer together and helps when things get tough. I don't think it's a coincidence that this is the highest performing and most cohesive team I've been on; we really have each other's backs and there's zero toxicity.
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44 minutes ago, Weave said:
Spicy.
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51 minutes ago, SwampD said:
-It’s also amazing how many really bad live audio engineers there are. Loud doesn’t mean good.
Of course not; you need to put a bunch of compression on to make sure it's consistently loud.
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Complaint Thursdays
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A person walking when they could be driving? Sus. You're probably going to try to carjack them or something; better be safe and make sure you can see it when they lunge for your speeding car.