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When a real user uses the app (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

The engineer in the joke should have ordered some Bobby Tables for dessert.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (10 children)

This story is a lie.

There's no "computer icon". Dragging the System disk to trash ejects it on a classic Mac. If you burrow down into System, you can try deleting system files… which are locked and can't be deleted.

You can test this yourself on Infinite Mac

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

The story seems to be referencing the first time apple had regular people try it which may have been in a focus group or at some kind of publicity event. If this did happen I'm sure they made safeguards against it before selling it

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

QA today seems to just be releasing software in whatever state and maybe fixing it later.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

QA in large companies seems to be first to get outsourced or at best, contacted into temp positions. First to get mixed, too. It's the "skill-less labor" of the tech world.

In other words, blame the idiots in charge for not really investing in QA lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the "skill-less labor" of the tech world.

Which is funny because you need a technical AND a creative person to handle QA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Isn't it, haha. And yet I know a place that outsources it to slavic countries to save cash. I guess they're tech savvy, but as contract workers it's hard to say their dedicated to their craft.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I would be absolutely amazing at this job, I do this naturally, I am inescapably an agent of chaos.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm a good enough software engineer that this isn't true. I bet I get paid a lot more than you. 😎

(The above statement is not a truthful statement.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I'm so glad you can automate QA jobs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Automated tests are cool, but they definitely aren't a panacea in place of humans

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