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by satisfice 5y ago
Hofstadter came to Apple in 1987 and spoke on this exact topic. I gleaned two things out of it at the time: - He looks and sounds so much like Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island that I found it distracting. - His ideas about analogies in compu
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by satisfice 5y ago
Yet another article on testing written by someone who defines testing in whatever way conveniently ignores the icky part: people. Every time you want to say “manual” testing, ask yourself why you never say “manual programming.” Testing is a
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by satisfice 5y ago
Loan someone a couple billion Euros at a reasonable interest rate.
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by satisfice 5y ago
Objectively speaking, that is not so. I am part of an engineering community that has used it productively for many years. Thus apparently it is possible for some of your fellow humans to find it more than borderline useless. I suspect you h
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by satisfice 5y ago
If you stop thinking about Myers-Briggs as an indicator and start thinking about it as a preference label, it stops being pseudoscience and starts being just a way to talk about yourself.
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by satisfice 5y ago
How about we treat people as adults capable of negotiating and discussing what they do and want to do? This problem then does not even arise. Teamwork is difficult because being an adult is difficult. Just solve the adult problem and you’ll
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by satisfice 5y ago
This is an interesting thing to try and learn from. It is an abusive thing to enforce on everyone all the fucking time. A meeting is a social event. Silent reading is not. Why does every young clever person think that his preferred method i
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by satisfice 5y ago
It just feels weird getting financial and social advice from Pinboard. I thought it was just a thing to collect my links.
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by satisfice 5y ago
Why don’t humans poop on the lawn? (Dog Weekly, English edition)
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by satisfice 5y ago
I pretty much don’t use unmoderated forums. (he said, on an unmoderated forum) But on any forum, the rotting stench of money draws many flies. That’s a lot of the problem. BYW, how much do I get for posting this valuable wisdom?
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34 Years in Testing(satisfice.com)
3 points by satisfice 5y ago|0 comments
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by satisfice 5y ago
I went to the Freenode site and read the description and I still don’t know what Freenode is. Sometimes trying to understand the tech world is like zooming into the Mandelbrot set. But what I like about this feed is that I am constantly bei
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by satisfice 5y ago
It’s not a dumb tweet. It a little boring, sure. Not much of an insight, really. But my god there are so many actually idiotic tweets out there... this is actually an 90th percentile tweet.
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by satisfice 6y ago
My son mobbed me all the time until he turned 12 and a half. What happened then? He started online gaming. I have had peace and quiet ever since. He met his wife while gaming, and now they’ve been married six years. A family that plays toge
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by satisfice 6y ago
It really isn’t, right? I didn’t do it much. My wife seemed to think it was her job, and I wasn’t going to argue. But I was surprised to discover that infant poop doesn’t hardly smell. And also surprised that when I got puked on, it didn’t
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by satisfice 6y ago
Have you actually thought about this? Do the math, man. Society can’t function without quite a few young people and not so many old ones. I also would like the population to drop, but it has to be done carefully.
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by satisfice 6y ago
If I had known how much I would enjoy my son’s company once he grew up, I would have tried harder to have more than just the one kid. I didn’t feel a connection to him until he was almost a year old. Then paternal chemicals kicked in. I beg
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by satisfice 6y ago
I'm amazed that this article fails to consider an obvious explanation for conversations going past when either party wants them to end-- politeness. It happens that I care about the other guy and he may care about me. Therefore, to end
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by satisfice 6y ago
Your English may not be fine. "Feelgood" posts like this want to pretend that your English skills don't matter. Oh, but they probably do. We all should work on our English. I frequently tell people who apologize for their Eng
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by satisfice 6y ago
This is a useful post. The key idea I get from it is to mind the difference between dictating a solution and creating a vocabulary and set of models for discussing solutions.
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by satisfice 6y ago
Although I am an advocate of the “just say hi” school of IM, your message above is a constructive way of explaining how you’d like me to interact with you.
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by satisfice 6y ago
There is no problem saying “hi” in a chat. This is an example of a completely imagined general social problem, generated from the social anxiety of one guy. It’s like TDD: somebody finds a way they like to work and then elevates that to a m
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by satisfice 8y ago
Best practices is a marketing term. Put it aside. Your problem isn’t that you lack some particular practice, but rather that you feel incompetent and inferior. New techniques won’t fix that.
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by satisfice 8y ago
I was on the team that wrote the requirements for the original version of Radar, in 1988. At that time each department was using it's own flat file database for bugs. Also at that time, there was a very large testing group. All testers
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by satisfice 8y ago
I used to use Dia. I now swear by Inkscape. Both tools are free; both are quirky and idiosyncratic. Once I got past the idiosyncrasies, I fell in love with Inkscape.
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by satisfice 9y ago
To code is to be very, very specific. That's it. Imagine asking someone to get you a coffee, but you have tell him exactly how to do it down to the tiny details of how to grip a cup with fingers. The challenge of learning to code is la