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Comment: Re:A week? (Score 1) 979

by CodeArtisan (#40060207) Attached to: Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?

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.

Comment: Re:Forgot to mention one more option: (Score 1) 416

by CodeArtisan (#39088707) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development?

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.

Comment: Re:and alot of companies don't do much testing at (Score 1) 180

by CodeArtisan (#37624360) Attached to: Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing

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.

Crime

Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick 352

Posted by samzenpus
from the it's-been-a-pleasure-being-your-victim dept.
While it's true that Sweden is responsible for unleashing IKEA and ABBA on humanity, not everything they produce is terrible. Their thieves are some of the most considerate in the world. An unnamed professor at Umeå University received a USB stick with all his data after his laptop was stolen. From the article: "The professor, who teaches at Umeå University in northern Sweden, was devastated when ten years of work stored on his laptop was stolen. But to his surprise, a week after the theft, the entire contents of his laptop were posted to him on a USB stick. 'I am very happy,' the unnamed professor told the local Västerbottens-Kuriren newspaper. 'This story makes me feel hope for humanity.'"

UK's Digital Economy Bill Likely to be Accelerated->

Submitted by CodeArtisan
CodeArtisan writes "With Gordon Brown calling a UK election for May 6, a number of bills will be hurried through Parliament in the so-called 'wash-up'. One of these is the Digital Economy Bill which will force ISPs and even Wi-Fi Hot Spot providers to monitor traffic and terminate accounts of users suspected of illegal file sharing. There are many flaws in the wording and a number of MPs have admitted they don't fully understand it. The Guardian has more details, including a blog piece from Richard Stallman."
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Comment: Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? (Score 1) 776

by CodeArtisan (#31733854) Attached to: Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

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.

Comment: Re:There's more to this story (Score 5, Insightful) 691

by CodeArtisan (#31219664) Attached to: Our Low-Tech Tax Code

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

Comment: Re:Yeah, right. (Score 1) 534

by CodeArtisan (#31185138) Attached to: The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

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.

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