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Muse Mind[^]:Why is software quality declining in the age of abundance and innovation?
While there are many causes, I believe the most important is the reduction of qualified human testers.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I believe the most important is the reduction of qualified human testers.
Some times you get to wonder if there were tests at all...
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Personally, I think it has to do with the shift from software designed by engineers to software designed by management. They decide what's "necessary" and "acceptable"; they decide the stack; they decide which engineers work on what; they decide everything now. And frankly they are not qualified to decide any of that.
It gets worse. What would you guess is the natural result of a system where software engineers are treated as little more than fingers to type whatever nonsense management wants? It's the devaluing of software talent. In fact, talent poses a problem for this new system because talent sees the flaws in what management wants. This inevitably leads to the talent being let go. To management, pointing out that zero-day that has serious impacts but would require equally serious amounts of development time to fix isn't improving things - it's problematic.
So now you've got systems designed by management, built by people that don't know any better, and shipped out to customers that have given up on ever receiving a quality software product.
And now management thinks AI is going to bail them out. Sorry, but even AI can't turn bad ideas into good implementations.
/rant
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Pity I can't vote more than once per comment... this deserves a 50
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Nadella is the third Microsoft CEO to reflect on the company’s vast mobile mistakes. On the bright side, the other guys couldn't figure out a mobile strategy for Microsoft either
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To be fair, I think they had a strategy but gave up too soon and didn't put the public faith into it that they should have done.
I've never used Windows Phone but my impression is that many people still like it. If Microsoft had just carried on, had stuck to it, as I understand they did with XBox before it was profitable, there is (I think) a good chance they could have carved out a niche alongside Android and Iphone.
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A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years. It's estimated to be useful in 5-10 years (+/- 50-100)
"The error rate for individual qubit operations is high enough that it won't be possible to run an algorithm that relies on the full qubit count without it failing due to an error." <- I'm not holding my breath on quantum computing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The error rate for individual qubit operations is high enough that it won't be possible to run an algorithm that relies on the full qubit count without it failing due to an error." <- I'm not holding my breath on quantum computing
So they should take the term 'computer' out of the title.  "Atom Computing is the first to announce a 1,000+ qubit quantum error generator", or something...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's estimated to be useful in 5-10 years (+/* 50-100)
FTFY
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The state attorneys general argue that Meta unlawfully misled the public on the safety of its products. Kids are using Face...uh, Meta?
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Kent, you old fart, Instagram is the bee's knees. It's where all the groovy, swell youngsters hang out.
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I thought that was The Tickytock? 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Tickytock
I wouldn't mind if they got sued too
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Kids are using Face...uh, Meta?
My kids only got facebook to communicate with me and spouse.
I am guessing they are ONLY suing Meta because that is all the attorneys understand. There are much more "damaging" apps IMO.
Brent
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dbrenth wrote: I am guessing they are ONLY suing Meta because that is all the attorneys understand. There are much more "damaging" apps IMO.
But not so rich as meta, so they (lawyers) do not care about them
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.NET 8 stands as a substantial leap forward, introducing a plethora of new features and enhancements. Bonus #0: Fresh icons (and bugs)
Yet it's C# 12. and VB...? 17? 16 again?
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They got all excited over that list? I think I'll stay retired.
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And then ... If they had developed these improvements, especially the performance ones, and then declared: "No, we are not going to publish them now. We will hold them back for a bigger package of improvements. The developers can wait; they don't need these improvements now" - then I guess there would have been another roar of dissatisfaction.
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Scientists have collected rock and dust from outside the canister, but the bulk of the sample remains stuck inside. Have you tried banging the lid on a counter a few times?
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Or holding it under hot water?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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They must be using my can opener
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Article wrote: Scientists have collected rock and dust from outside the canister, but the bulk of the sample remains stuck inside.
They can't say they were not warned[^]
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A lineage that began on Saturday, 16th November 1996 will finally draw to a close tomorrow, Tuesday, 10th October 2023, some 26 years, 10 months and 25 days later. The 'CE' stands for 'Could of been Everywhere'
Or 'Calibrate Every time'
Extra sad for me as I was a pusher for .NET CF for a while, and had to carry around a bunch of CE devices all the time travelling.
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CE at its prime was kick-ass. Microsoft completely fumbled it.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Microsoft completely fumbled it.
Is that not their speciality?
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