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I agree that it seems like a good thing they're doing. Obviously they're doing it at least partly for their own reasons, but, hopefully some of those jobs turn into long term careers for the soldiers.
OriginalGriff wrote: Would you want your code written by a developer with just a 16 week course behind him? 
On a side note, since when do software testers write code?
Quote via linked article: At the end of the course, Microsoft said, participants will be hired as software testers
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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MikoTheTerrible wrote: On a side note, since when do software testers write code?
When they don't want to manually test the same signin procedure three hundred times? I think we call them [automated] test engineers now...
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MikoTheTerrible wrote: On a side note, since when do software testers write code?
Actually, on several occasions I have been hired as a tester and ended up modifying code and was expected to do so. In order to properly do white-box testing, the tester must have a good grasp of coding. Going where no-one has gone before has been a tried and true method of finding bugs as well as acting like a complete moron. Sometimes, you just see the behavior and immediately know the logic error that was made. Of course, the developer should fix his/her error in that case.
MikoTheTerrible wrote: Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
An eminent qualification for a tester. 
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Given that they'd had military training? Sure would.
I have no doubt it would beat lots of the craptastic code we get from external consultants today.
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You might be on to something...
I'm seeing a 'Premium' add on for MS Security Essentials that not only clears/quarantines the virus, it launches a strike on the command and control servers.
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Whatever it is it will be a big help to the soldiers transitioning out of the service, especially those that have families.
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Not having served myself I am making some large assumptions but I would think the discipline and training required to become a soldier would be a great basis for the structured thinking required. The initiative required would help with analysis - I think it is a great idea and based on some sound thinking.
Then again there are some pretty bright people in the forces.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm thinking that a programmer is like a musician you either have the skills or you don't schooling helps bring out the inner talent. But many people don't know they have the talent until they take some training, that's what happened to me I had no idea I had the aptitude.
The services are all different and all have different levels of discipline and as far as training it depends on what your MOS, field you're in. For instance my brother was in the USAF and there is little or no discipline you kinda do your own thing, but I was in the USMC and it has a very rigid regiment.
You just never know about people!
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Does this mean thaty there will finally be an FPS where you don't need to use eleven fingers, three toes, your nose, and the dog's left ear to aim and fire a gun?
"Hey, Man, pointin' an' shootin' ain't that hard!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Soldiers Soldiers Soldiers!
Hmm... doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Developers, Developers, Developers! :P
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I'm walking backwards for Christmas! 
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This was my idea! I tried to offer free coding lessons to soldiers on craigslist.
0 responses but still...maybe ill repost it.
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Are you sure you were offering coding lessons? Maybe you typed coddling lessons? Or maybe you should type it that way, and you'll get some responses.
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TTFN - Kent
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- First Meeting - Dad with son
Dad: I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son: No way!
Dad: The girl is Bill Gate's daugther
Son: .... mmmm .... then OK
- Second Meeting - Dad with Bill Gates
Dad: I would like your daughter to marry my son
Bill Gares: No way!
Dad: My son is the CEO of the World Bank
Bill Gates: .... mmmm .... then OK
- Third Meeting - Dad with the President of the World Bank
Dad: I would like you to appoint my son as CEO
President: No way!
Dad: He is the son-in-law of Bill Gates
President: .... mmmm .... then OK
THAT is business
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's the Golden Rule - Them with the gold rule!
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She would be better off marrying Leslie Nielsen
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Nah. He's never home - he's far too busy posting here.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Nah, Leslie Nielsen was funny.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Avoid elephanting UI testing like the plague. I'm in day 2 of UI testing and I'm bored bored bored. We're testing on devices, and I've been lumbered with a HTC Desire Z (????) slow, more like HTC Repulse Zzzzzz - and no keyboard not designed for use by humans. Currently testing on an LG Optima 3, not a device I'd want to download pr0n on, a permanent squint would develop within minutes. Also, not keen on the click, pause pause pause, do something work ethic of the chipset, might be good for Harold Pinter, but no good in a phone.
On the up-side I'm out of the Radio 1 room while I'm on the project and we should re-start development soon.
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A bunch of mad men are given a test to check their mental state. A doctor draws a door on the wall and orders them to go out. They start rushing to the door but one remains sitting. The doctor goes to him and asks, "Why didn't you join the others?" He replies, "Let them fight - they forgot I have the keys".
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: He replies, "Let them fight - they forgot I have the keys".
yes it has happened to me too, i had the keys but had forgotten where the door was.
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Okay, what does the great Gestaltic Hive Mind think?
COD Ghosts or Battlefield IV?
I am going to buy one or the other in about 30 mins.
I would like the input of the great unwashed intelligentsia.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Both
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In time, yes, but tonight, just one!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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That's what she said!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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