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Very good.
I'll shout along with you.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Correlation is not causation!!!
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fyi: I found the article and the implications the author(s) drew from the "research" as ludicrous as the fascist virus of "political correctness" now infecting the body-politic in most "developed" nations.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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What happens when you take away the quality assurance team in a software development operation? Fewer, not more errors, along with a vastly quicker development cycle. Ignoring the obvious comment about Yahoo's strength as a company these days
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This is a disturbing trend in the name of quicker dev cycles.
That's not what we ask for though.
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I'd like to know how this works in practice. As we all know, developers shouldn't test their own code, so who exactly is testing the code if not a tester? Even if they are writing all sorts of automated tests and creating tools, are they still testing their own code? If so, then I don't see how this could ever be a successful strategy.
It smacks more of cost-cutting measures than a genuine desire to increase quality.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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It works by writing unit tests or even better, using test driven development... Anyway what's wrong with testing your own code? - Everybody tests their own code! do you really hand over your code to QA without at least making sure it works? I alway test what I write.
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Yes of course I test my own code, and write unit tests too. I do all the same things that Yahoo engineers do, but I go one step further and hand my code over to a tester for independent verification.
My code may work, but that's not the end of the story. My UI needs to be consistent with the rest of the application and it needs to trigger failures and omissions consistently for example.
Having your code tested by an independent testing team gives a level of verification above and beyond what a developer on their own can give.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I've noticed this trend a couple of years ago. Dedicated QA departments are becoming a thing of the past and developers are expected to write automatic tests for their code.
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Wait...Yahoo! ? Let me think...?
That's that company that did the same stuff that altavista.com did, right?
Right?
Wait, you're ignoring me, aren't you? 
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Well, duh! 
It's quite obvious you'll find less errors if no one is looking for them!
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We should do this in airplane and car manufacturing as well to make them safer!
Wout
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As the programming language hits version 1.5, Mozilla should build both with it and on top of it Because it never sleeps
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I predict a new Rust oriented product: Rust-oleum
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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While there is broad agreement that Agile improves the chances of successful software initiatives as compared to the deeply flawed waterfall approach, Agile still faces many challenges, even after so many years. I was looking for clickbait headlines: you won't believe what happened next!
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Sorry may be the hardest word, but it seems to be tripping off Microsoft's tongue quite freely at the moment. I'm still waiting for the apology for the registry
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Sorry for making W10 a spyware.
Sorry for making W10 a virus by using Wupdate to automatically hijack your previous Windows.
Sorry for removing the menu in Office.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Predicting the future is fraught with challenges, but when it comes to technological advances and forward thinking, experts working at the Pentagon's research agency may be the best people to ask. Jetpacks for everyone!
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
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IBM's internal OMR project makes maintaining JVM easier across platforms -- and may give other languages a performance boost OMR = One More Runtime?
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Noted killer robot-fearer Elon Musk has a plan to save humanity from the looming robopocalypse: developing advanced artificial intelligence systems. You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse. It's reverse psychology, but for AIs
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You got it wrong - it will be an open-source based 'killer-robot', so it will never work...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft surprised many last month by announcing plans to reduce its free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB. Apology accepted
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I too have only one drive, but I do not let Microsoft to handle it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Aside: in C# is the absence of if(! whatever == null) { do some stuff; } equivalent to "swearing" ?
Another dubious linguistic research project seems to contradict the "impoverished vocabulary" theory of swearing: [^]. Newspaper coverage here: [^].
"Overall the findings suggest that, with the exception of female-sex-related slurs, taboo expressives and general pejoratives comprise the core of the category of taboo words while slurs tend to occupy the periphery, and the ability to generate taboo language is not an index of overall language poverty." I'm not about to pay Elsevier to get to read the whole article, but there's no information provided in the abstract or the newspaper coverage as to the sample size of the study, and the methodology ... that always raises doubts in my mind as to any conclusions/hypotheses of a study.
Further, there has long been an informal consensus that swearing frequency is related to occupational roles, social context (work vs. home vs. social interaction with strangers), socio-economic status, and the intensity of stress and life-change. And, those adopting "deviant" social identities predicated upon a pattern of challenging some perceived "establishment," or "power structure," often, in their sub-cultures, manifest language that is deliberately, dramatically "antipodal."
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
modified 13-Dec-15 3:04am.
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