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Marc Clifton wrote: The real pain point in any system, whether you write tests or you have monkeys (or C-level people) test your software by actually banging away at it, is, how do you decide what tests are relevant? How do you prune your stale tests? Do the chimpanzees that are performing maintenance on your beloved creation know how to write new tests or update your existing test suite? Heck, do they even know there is a test suite to run?
And do you, as alpha male gray back, know the difference between a unit test vs. and integration test vs. a functional test vs. an acceptance test? And do you know which one is appropriate for which level of testing? Oh wait, there's levels???
Enjoyable and Eloquent ! I wish the author of the article could read these words.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Web developers, do beware of new Date(...); and please stick as closely as possible to the common date parsing format which is based on ISO 8601. Dates: causing programmer grief since 1/1/70 (OK, probably before)
modified 10-Feb-16 19:04pm.
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Alas, most developers can't get even one date.
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Just recently I read somewhere that setting the date on your iPhone to 1/1/70 bricks it.
Would some iDiot try it and report the result here? 
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In a recently published article in the journal Cryobiology, the team, lead by MIT graduate Robert McIntyre, announced it has cryonically frozen the brain of a small mammal and recovered it in near perfect condition. How would you tell if a rabbit had brain damage?
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He starts voting for Trump? 
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Can't say I saw that one coming.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How would you tell if a rabbit had brain damage?
It stops being interested in making more rabbits. 
Marc
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Google has announced that from June 30th this year, its widely used AdWords and DoubleClick advertising services will no longer allow uploads of ads built in Flash, forcing users to code their display ads in HTML5 instead. From January 2nd next year, Flash ads won't run at all on DoubleClick or the Google Display Network. When even advertisers don't want to use the technology...
Of course, someone will comment, "what's an ad?"
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Well, all that stuff was just a flash in the pan anyway...
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It's unfair that Flash was singled out from all the JL members. Either ban them all or ban none I say! 
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Now if they would ban javascript in ads, and make all of them purely static text and/or images, I might think about turning ads back on.
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More than three-quarters of IT professionals have seen and kept secret potentially embarrassing information about their colleagues, according to new research conducted by AlienVault. It's true! For example, Bob doesn't wear pants.
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James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, told lawmakers Tuesday that governments across the globe are likely to employ the Internet of Things as a spy tool, which will add to global instability already being caused by infectious disease, hunger, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Welcome to the Internet of Nosy Things
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Not sure how it's pronounced - could be Jink or maybe Jin-Queue (the website's title writes it as JinQ).
Jinq provides developers an easy and natural way to write database queries in Java and Scala. You can treat database data like normal Java objects stored in collections. You can iterate over them and filter them using normal Java commands, and all your code will be automatically translated into optimized database queries. Finally, LINQ-style queries are available for Java!
Not really a java guy personally but thought someone might find this interesting.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Not sure how it's pronounced
My guess is Jink, given that it is essentially the Java version of LINQ.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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It's more the Java version of EF really since it's DB only. Maybe they should have called it Jeff!
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Jinq was initially developed by Dr. Ming-Yee Iu as part of his PhD research while at EPFL.
Funny they don't reference their actual thesis paper. 
I just wouldn't trust my product to something like this. Maybe it's just me.
Marc
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Link is 404.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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sorry, the 'l' got cut off from .html.
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Still broken. You need to edit the href attribute.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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missed an 'l'. i think i got them all now. (odd because the link opened for me before this last fix. i did test it.  )
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For months, rumours of the detection of a gravitational wave signal by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, have spread on Twitter. With a press conference planned for Thursday, 11 February, they are building to a crescendo. "Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off"
For those who don't feel pancakes warrant "Science and Technology" (but they totally do)
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