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That week is critical to not seeing spoilers online, we live in an international community, forums inhabited by users all around the world, if half of them can't see the episode for a week+ that doesn't work.
Really? I do subscribe to HBO which is also available On-Demand. It's usually around Wed/Thu before I get around to watching the previous Sunday's 'new' episode, and somehow manage to avoid all the spoilers. It worked for Boardwalk Empire too.
In fact, I don't know of too many non-management salaried fields, period, that match what a decently-paid IT "veteran" can earn that do not absolutely a degree in the field. (As in, accountants, lawyers, certain kinds of engineers, and the healthcare profession can make serious coin, but it takes years to make that switch.)
This is true in my experience, but the good news is there are many IT related jobs that can be rewarding. I moved from software development to a client facing role responsible for system configurations and deployments. Now I still get to work on problem analysis and technical designs, but am freed from some of the external forces from my code monkey days.
I would say that testing your own code is the worst thing to do, as you know how it works and will (possibly subconsciously) input data which will either work, or bomb out gracefully.
Testing your own code should *always* be the first step in the testing process. Ideally, stepping through it line by line. It's precisely because you know how it works that you are the best person to do this. Knowing it will soon be handed over to a testing team can help eliminate any inherent bias you may have, but even if it doesn't, it should increase the quality of code that is being tested later in the process.
Er, don't you mean 70kmph? 'cause that's only about 45mph. That's not so much a big deal at all, we've got plenty of roads with 55mph speed limits that don't have any.. well, they're called on ramps or merging lanes. Slip is not a word we like to use in reference to driving except in accidents..
No, that would definitely be 70 mph; miles per hour is still the unit of choice in the UK.
I assume you're referring to the cost... In every other aspect, America has the highest overall quality health care and is always at the bleeding edge of medical technology - electronic, methodic, and pharmaceutical. This is a statistically proven fact.
Really? And yet the World Health Organization has it ranked at a lowly 37. http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
You're a bunch of prissy prima donnas. Guess what, princess: coding is a hell of a lot easier to do, is simpler to test, and has less inherent risk than any other kind of engineering. Unlike a software bug, you can't put out a patch to fix a collapsed bridge, or release a service pack for a unbalanced rotor shaft that destroys a generator.
You do get the chance however to, say, recall a few million of your Toyotas. I would also argue the fact that a real-time embedded control system for a helicopter is inherently more difficult to test than a rotor shaft.
For the record. I'm french and I don't care about cyclists which I think is the most stupid professional sport ever, save curling.
Curling isn't a professional sport.
Baby On Board.