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isquaredr | 2 months ago | on: Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

Economically devs are the only ones that can do it. If I am a good QA engineer that cares enough about the product to do a good job, I could probably be making more money as a product manager.

These days when every iota of attention can be leveraged to the extreme by AI you can’t afford to tie up that attention testing a phone number input across 100 countries and interpreting the results.

isquaredr | 3 months ago | on: I don't care how well your "AI" works

The difference is the LLM is predictable and repeatable. Whereas a junior dev could go AWOL, leave unexpectedly for a new job, or be generally difficult to work with, LLMs fit my schedule, show constant progress and are generally less anxiety inducing than pouring hundreds of thousands into a worker who may not pan out. This sentiment may be showing my lack of expertise in team building but at worst shows that LLMs represent a legitimate alternative to building a large team to achieve a vision.

isquaredr | 2 years ago | on: Low Cost Robot Arm

The geek in me is drooling, but are there any practical home uses others have found for robotic arms? Hacking is always more fun with a good project

isquaredr | 2 years ago | on: Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

Any suggestions from the community on the best way to consume this site as an audio book? I know I could scrape and feed into a text-to-speech library but was wondering: is there is anything off-the-shelf?

isquaredr | 2 years ago | on: Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco

Sounds good in theory. I’m not optimistic about all the car makers cooperating on an industry standard, though. Plus the failure scenario seems pretty catastrophic to overall throughput. I hope some bright thinker figures those problems out; it does seem like a great opportunity

isquaredr | 3 years ago | on: Low-code is not a cure for overworked IT departments

Our team has built a low-code solution to build simple web views and help lower the barriers to making changes. So far it has not saved us any time and arguably has made things worse. The requirements coming in are complex, so instead of building the views in a comfortable environment (our IDE) we are building the same amount of complexity in an environment with rough edges (our LC/NC tool). In my opinion we have misidentified the bottleneck. In reality the time sink is getting clarity on the requirements and understanding the interactions of the components on the page. Whether that page is made in an IDE or in our tool is largely irrelevant.

isquaredr | 4 years ago | on: Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure

This definitely applies to Google's PaaS offerings. Google App Engine looks like a great solution except your app is now entirely stuck on a constantly changing platform. The drop-in components they offer are constantly getting deprecated and re-architected with no clear upgrade path. For example many of their original drop-in components were custom (Memcache, Taskqueues, NDB) and are now deprecated with no interoperability with the now recommended 3rd party components. If you depended on these components you now are either existing in a precarious purgatory or you need to rip out and replace all uses of those libraries which completely reneges on the PaaS value proposition

isquaredr | 6 years ago | on: My students made zines, and so can you(rs)

Professor Kuper, thank you so much for pushing the envelope on new teaching ideas at the school. With the over enrollment in the program, personal interaction between the professors and the students is sometimes lost. I commend you for helping to engage the students on a more personal level beyond grading scripts and crowd graded assignments. I hope you continue giving creative assignments in your classes to help combat the assumption that Computer Science is a field where creativity is not valued.
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