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Michael Haines wrote: My QA is made up mostly of analysts who don't want to code - at all.
A blessing in disguise. 
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As long as it's limited to typo level fixes I don't have a problem with it, provided you have someone reviewing every change the tester makes. I'd be leery of letting someone just brought in to test try to fix anything more complex though; for the same reason I'd be leery about bringing a new dev into the project a week before release. I'm not as dogmatic as Mark is, because real world staffing constraints mean you can't always do things the best way; and it's still a step up from the same group of devs who wrote the app doing all the testing. (Nevermind not actually doing any formal testing before release at all. *shudder* BTDTGTWTF)
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Enforce Code Review process before any check-ins and then you know whether the fix he made is good or bad. Secondly the bugs that he fixes can be assigned to another tester for second round of testing. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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So long as it gets marked as 'submitted for QA review' (or however your process works) and someone else in QA has to review and verify it is fixed, then I don't see any real problem.
Also assumes (ha!) he sticks to what his proficiency allows him to understand.
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Kieryn Phipps wrote: Thoughts?
Who QA tests the QC lead's fixes?
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It's good and bad, it's good because you have an extra set of hands to help you with small tasks, but it's bad because if he breaks something he may simply wash his/her hands and pass the problem to you.
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Kieryn Phipps wrote: Good or bad?
In general, a good thing. But ensure that any check-ins are first reviewed by a senior dev. Over time, some types of fixes may be permitted without review. I would encourage the QC engineer to continue pursuing his/her programming skills (by formal training - by that I don't necessarily mean a degree program).
/ravi
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First it is a bad thing to have hard-code string UI messages as it will make harder to localize the application if the need comes or if the message is used at many locations.
Second, the developer might be better at evaluating the impact of change. Maybe the string is written in a fixed size buffer or is restricted in available UI space or used at more than one location or other similar things for which the tester might not be able to properly evaluate the impact.
Third it might make it harder to follow the history if such changes are made in the middle of other unrelated changes so it might be preferable to review and fix all mistakes at once. It could also help ensure consiostency where all similar errors are corrected at once for example if the same word was always spelled wrong.
Philippe Mori
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If government makes it easy to take house mortgages, do you think it will result in -
GDP increase & inflation increase?
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You're talking about one of the classic causes of housing bubbles. Deregulation and easy access to mortgages leading to increased debt relative to GDP (rather than increasing GDP - increasing GDP does not really relate to easier credit). If you want to see the type of effects I'm talking about, have a read of this[^].
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Quote: increasing GDP does not really relate to easier credit
From what I heard, GDP isn't really a good measure of anything really. As your GDP would increase if Bill Gates would move to the UK, but you wouldn't necessarily be any better off for it. I seem to recall that GDP came into play after WW2 as a measure of how well a country was doing (when it came from nothing really) and was really never intended to be used widely for any economical understanding.
As you quoted statement can be related to GDP if nobody could get any money to invest in new equipment at your workplace etc. But GDP wouldn't tell you if it was a good idea or not.
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Houses are only included in a GDP calculation if they are new builds. Second-hand goods, including the buying and selling of existing housing stock is not included for calculating GDP. Inflation is a different question altogether, and mortgages will have an effect.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Tying up money in house repayments will of course reduce inflation, unless house prices are included in the calculation.... 
As for GDP, yeah, what the last guy said.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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It will impact inflation yes - but because of the creation of money behind those mortgages will increase the amount of money in the economy.
What happens is - you walk into the bank and borrow £250k. The bank creates an asset (the mortgage) from that and transfers electronic money backed by that asset to you. They have a zero sum (ish) thing going on but £250k that didn't exist in the economy before the transaction has come into being. If everyone does this vast sums of money "just come into being" and more money chasing the same supply of products and services pushes up prices.
Something like 90% of the money in the UK economy came into being this way.
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AndyInUK wrote: Any economist here
No 
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Was talking to my Dad about stuff that used to go on in the tool-room he used to work in. If a job went wrong it was thrown in the scrap me.tal bin, the wag pitching it would often say "Oh well, good enough for government". Then he watched a TV programme ("American Chopper", or "Tank Kings") where exactly the same phrase was used.
Is this phrase in common use across the pond? I told my dad I'd ask.
[Edit]
Thanks. And to all those who replied with an explanation, it means the same here (ie shoddy work only the government would accept and pay for). The US may think it leads the world in incompetent government, but by jingo Blighty is more than giving it a run for its money
modified 10-Apr-14 15:20pm.
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Yes
Some times it's "close enough for rock-and-roll".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Quote: Can any USians confirm?
Quote: tool-room
Quote: the wag
Quote: programme
I can't even understand what you're asking.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Crush: Okay. Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting technique.
Squirt: Good afternoon. We're gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.
Marlin: It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it.
[to Squirt]
Marlin: Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying. Say the first thing again.
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Did you have that in memory or did you look it up?
Great movie.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That part of the movie, less the words, was in memory.
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That's the first time I've seen a translation of what Squirt was saying. I've never actually been able to decipher it from the movie! 
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RyanDev wrote: Quote: Can any USians confirm?
Standard CP code.
RyanDev wrote: tool-room
A room in which machine-tools are made (bits for lathes for example).
RyanDev wrote: the wag
A "wit"
RyanDev wrote: programme
I worry about a dev that can't decipher this. 
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Quote: bits for lathes for example
Quote: A "wit"
You aren't helping much.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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OK, let me have a go. I consider myself multilingual in that, amongst others, I am fluent in both English and American.
Quote: tool-room
A room for storing tools, such as drills, Spanners (Wrenches) and can also be a workroom (Tool-shed or Garage) containing things like Table Saws, Lathes (a spinning, wood-shaving thingy for making chair legs, Banister struts and the like) and other fixed tools.
Quote: the wag
"A wit"... a jokester, someone who can be amusing in conversation.
Quote: programme
Program
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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