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All that is true of regular type as well to some degree, I guess my point is a standard of readable url type could have all those qualities.

Also the longer a url is out in physical space the more danger of it being replaced online, longevity may not be desirable.

I was recently discussing this subject and I have to wonder if some combination of human readable symbols that is also optimized for machine scanning will emerge.

Right now any phone should be able to parse a url if it can read the type, and so what is the point of QR besides the ubiquity?

The end of programming will be the end of code.

Code exists solely for humans to interface with machine language. If code is involved at all in any solution, it's a concession to humans.

An AI with the power to build software from some definition doesn't need to write code. Else it simply does not have the power to write software alone.

Sports are the metaphor. Regular people intellectualize the game and are derided.

No one needs to fight, we can all see the game happening. We incorporate all the functions of pleasure into our identity.

Huxley cant recognize the social progress, calling it dumb. Smug enough to be funny, oblivious to the irony.

As a team lead and manager, I've had SWE friends mention that management shouldn't even exist. Petty arguments, performance issues, termination, even sexual harassment reporting are things I've had to personally deal with.

Well that shouldn't be an issue in a professional workplace and functioning team, is the rationalization. I couldn't agree more! Yet, there's a huge gap between what should and does happen when a bunch of humans (sadly, mostly men) work together.

I absolutely loved Posterous, major shame it was squashed after being bought(?).

Seems like that will simply lead to a huge glut of noise, more quickly and thoroughly desensitizing current and subsequent generations to fakes.

The reason I mention Photoshop is because it is many orders of magnitude more automated than photo editing using previous tools. The social perception of truth wasn't effected despite this new efficiency, because a faster to make lie isn't significantly different from the absolute deluge of lies people deal with every day.

The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago.

People are very used to being deceived by advertising in general and political media especially. The article mentions certain politicians dismissing any media critical of them as AI deepfakes, a claim the article then instantly fact-checks (without irony).

Denial and lies are not new in any sense. Fake media is not new, and analog fakes have a very long history. Photoshop didn't destabilize anyone's concept of truth beyond the extremely gullible.

It's hard for me to imagine AI having significant, let alone measurable impact here.

QR has the same contrast requirement for colors to be read.

I'm not sure about this compactness idea, especially since the text url is usually right there with the QR code, in the same space.

And not human readable, is my point. The value tradeoff in accuracy and compactness is the question. Will that be enough to sustain QR codes? I don't think so.

Also most QR codes seem to include a text url nearby the code anyway, so there goes the "compactness" argument. In that case it's redundant information as well.

QR codes seems to be living on borrowed time, saved from obscurity by the pandemic.

Why can't my phone just read a printed URL by now? There's no reason the same information can't be human readable as well as easy for my phone to scan.

I suppose it would require some kind of design paradigm to really denote text that could also be scanned, maybe a specific font style.

Anyway it seem likely to me QR codes are eventually replaced by simple text.

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I'm in advanced interview process with a few companies already, so get me while you can!

Sentient AGI has just as likely a chance to pull the plug on itself.

Unpopular, non-doomer opinion but I stand by it.

Maybe not perfectly framed, but the point that engineers don't have time to write tests is salient. Minor disagreement with this point though:

> Tests can only tell developers they made a mistake. There is no gain at that moment.

The value is locating the problem code faster, and that generally can't be done efficiently in production. Outside a testing environment, you rely on logs alone to debug, or if you're more proactive you might grab session data but that means potentially sensitive user data is being cached and passed around to the support/triage team. At a security minded organization this should be impossible or at least difficult.

I agree it's not worth chasing Test Driven Development until you're actually testing during development.

This is a real problem, and it falls squarely on management. Testing needs time and resources, it needs priority and planning.

That's the reason I started speaking at conferences, started an online testing training course specifically for software managers, and am currently writing a book on the subject.

Pretty good list.

I'd add some encouragement and priority for anything your team is doing that shows ownership of the product or process.

Often this comes from individuals, such as the "go to" person who hacks on the development environment the most, or the engineer who everyone seems to ask for help writing tests. If you can see the value in those activities, it would be much appreciated if you schedule time for them, taking the day-to-day pressure off the individual a bit.

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Looking for Software Manager or Director level roles overseeing teams of ~10-20 engineers. Ready and able to quickly learn new technology stacks and systems.

Ten years of this same experience and my peers still don't get why I'm trying to get into management.

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I'm that highly versatile enterprise veteran looking to cross over and contribute at a higher level as director or executive. Looking for my next adventure in a role that challenges and interests me.

This is great, thank you.

This year I made a beginners video course for managers to get up to speed on testing, Ready to Test: https://testfromthetop.com/ReadyToTest/

I'm a senior engineer specialized in test automation. I realized the real challenge with testing isn't technical, it's leadership buy-in.

I haven't really launched yet, revising my copy and tweaking everything, building a marketing strategy. If it gets some traction I have more advanced classes planned.

A video course for software engineering managers to learn about testing, it's called Ready to Test:

https://testfromthetop.com/ReadyToTest/

This is aimed at getting managers new to testing up to speed from the very beginning. For me this is the start of a series of material progressing to more advanced concepts.

If you're interested at all I'd love to hear from you! We're starting a beta-testing program before release, message me to try the course for free.

I'm curious what market is supposed to be in danger of being disrupted?

Digital artists doing commissioned work in the style of some other more famous artist? Bespoke stock photographers?

It seems these jobs will simply use the new tools, and sell a more manual version when needed.

Sometime around 2010 I made a custom skin for an email notification app called Pop Peeper, it's a recording of my pet duck Carl that was downloaded over 11,000 times: https://www.esumsoft.com/pop-peeper/notifier-skins/#Carl

Just kidding. I was lead engineer on a login page for an Experian identity monitoring remediation product for a major data breach affecting over 20M government employees. Millions of people interacted with my code, kinda cool but everything about that code was very boring.

> Eventually, I realized that it’s not the best work and most original that makes it to top, but rather the mediocre.

Not at all true. The "top" work is a successful product, OR it gains a large following regardless of commercial success.

Lots of the best ideas are diluted into a mundane product, and plenty of critic's darlings never reach any notable audience.

You can put your art into the market, or the court of public opinion, either way you need a thick skin. Jung said artists have large egos because they are so exposed.

My experience exactly. My intuition tells me dreams that should be recalled will be, the rest really don't need to be.

Super burnout angst BUT I'm about to quit in a week for a three month or more sabbatical I've been planning over a year.

Been at the same company and same project for almost ten years. Completely burnt out on code for enterprise crud web apps. I just lost all interest. Spent a few years deep diving into testing and ops, but even that now I can only see the obvious best practices while the only challenge left is begging for management buy in. I still code for myself, tons of personal projects, but for work I only want to manage.

After being passed over for promotion I was basically promised, I started looking around and realized I have tons of options, recruiters love me. Did a few half-hearted interviews, actually declined a few after meeting the leadership. Realized suddenly I could setup a better situation than just jumping jobs.

One frustrating year later: Refinanced all my debt, saved a bunch of money for extended expenses and I can't wait to give notice.

"No I don't have another job. I'm doing thirty days of already booked and paid for travel with friends, then I'm going to come home and do NOTHING for a while, then finish my novel. Oh and I also released an app recently, check it out."

I wonder if the person you're replying to is secretly a human.

Side bar: as far as I can tell Turing was the first to use the term "assertion" in the context of software testing.

> How can one check a large routine in the sense of making sure that it's right? In order that the man who checks may not have too difficult a task, the programmer should make a number of definite assertions which can be checked individually, and from which the correctness of the whole program easily follows.

https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/publications-lectures-...

The opportunity loss is what I don't get. Without the debt you can take on new debt that could be say a rental property or business loan.

How is a bunch of money tied up in debt, and an equal amount invested to hedge that not a huge opportunity sink?

I have one of these on my shelf, kept as a memento after switching to SSDs.

All my other old HDDs are still here in spirit, stripped of their powerful magnets now decorating my fridge.