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philk10on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults

I avoided - or that was my intention until the game started - the 50/50s but my calf and hamstring still felt the pain the next day Totally worth it though

philk10on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

I went back to England last year and couldn't believe how many flags there were, I was shocked and not in a good way

philk10on The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind

that's not the role of QA to be a gatekeeper, they give the CTO and President information on the bugs and testing but it's a business decision to ship or not

philk10on Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

Just a fan who became well known and often got in for free - https://chicagoreader.com/music/tapehead/

philk10on Should QA exist?

Not really that impressive, that's Testing Quick Attacks 101

philk10on Should QA exist?

QA? Or testers?

philk10on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

the worship of death? try all the videos of 'lethal kinetic strikes' on speedboats

philk10on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

somehow I dont think regime change is gonna happen before the midterms or even before 2028

philk10on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

Epstein files and plummeting poll numbers are more likely reasons

philk10on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)

yes, there's a group still goes once a week on Monday and I go when I can. There's also one on Wednesday at the main Social Security office Totally normal people there, not being paid a dime

philk10on California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

yeh, my natural pond in Michigan has lost about 15 feet, the snow we're getting now won't be enough to regain it

philk10on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis

so as stupid an idea as the tariffs then

philk10on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis

your question implies that the person in charge of tariffs has any idea of the effect of using them...

philk10on What life is like in Minneapolis now

It's rebounding on them, support for ICE is now negative They're going after the weak and easy targets and dont care about citizenship as Miller has set them daily targets

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

that sucks, hope you get to work with a good tester/QA person at some point so you get to see what they can do

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

so, QA should be noticing that the testers are raising tickets like this and step in and give the testers some guidance on what/how they are testing I've worked with a clients test team who were not given any training on the system so they were raising bugs like spam clicking button 100 times, quickly resizing window 30 times, pasting War and Peace.. gave them some training and direction and they started to find problems that actual users would be finding

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

They find all the things the devs and their automated tests missed, then they mentor the devs in how to test for these and they work out how the bug could have been found earlier. Rinse and repeat until the tester is struggling to find issues and has coached the devs out of his job

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

yes - testing gives information, what is done with that information is a business decision

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

how did misunderstanding a feature and writing pages on it help, not sure I follow the logic of why this made them a good QA person? Do you mean the features were not written well and so writing code for them was going to produce errors?

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

Communicating a bug clearly is testing/QA 101

philk10on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

yes - devs are great at coding so get them to write the tests and then I, a good tester, (not to be confused with QA) can work with them on what are good tests to write. With this in place I can confidently test to find the edge cases, usability issues etc And when I find them we can analyze how the issue could have been caught sooner

philk10on Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work

For a narrow browser window (< 1170) the contents section floats over the contents which is distracting

philk10on Most technical problems are people problems

Jerry Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting (1985) - "No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem." - no matter how technical a problem seems, its root cause always involves people—their choices, communication, management, or skills—making human factors central to any solution, from software development to complex systems

philk10on Shell Grotto, Margate

grottos were on recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809746

philk10on The kind of company I want to be a part of

holds hand up as one of those people

philk10on The kind of company I want to be a part of

the broken windows theory that was shown to be flawed? :)

philk10on Layoffs hit highest level for the month since 2003

Just looked and they are $23.00/hour in my area (SW Michigan)

philk10on Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful

Sure - on the front page I put "QA", that took me to the jobs page where the AI was asking me for more details so I put "remote" This gave "There are 57 remote matches", the Sales Engineer was about #19

philk10on Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful

Looked for a QA remote role and one of the top results was for a Sales Engineer and nearly all the rest were just generic engineer roles