With all the reverse engineering out there going on now, I really hope someone does the REA with BlackICE. I miss that software so much. If it works native and is high quality with the simplistic GUI of ZoneAlarm, I would be so happy.
And then once you get over the knee-jerk reaction the twitter community been teaching you, you might look at the actual syntax and the way the language conceptualizes stuff, and might actually learn something new and useful :) Or, at least have something constructive to say, even if it's negative or whatever, instead of just wasting space.
You're making an assumption here. I don't read Twitter, I have no idea what reaction that community has and I don't care.
My insight on Cucumber comes entirely from years of experience, through several organizations using or considering using it. Several times I was successful in stopping its planned use.
I thought the negative comments would come through the sarcasm, but point taken that it's not constructive.
I think Cucumber (Gherkin) and any natural-language attempts are rooted in a core delusion that product managers or non-technical people will write these test cases. I've never seen product managers writing or even reading these cases. They are not written at the functional specification or an SRD level, because that level is too high and too imprecise to capture the realities of testing behavior.
The natural language of Gherkin is parsed by a set of rigid regular expressions, which do not support the full richness of the English language, and subtle changes like adding or dropping an article or lightly altering the word order will render those steps unparsable. So it's not natural language, it's a programming language with all the syntactical strictness of one, but highly sugared and natural-looking.
You can write behavioral tests at the same exact level as Gherkin in any reasonably-expressive language, likely whatever language your code is written in. You can choose to have fixtures, and high-level structure and you can banish low-level detail from your test cases. Code can do all that, and MAINTIAN EASY refactorability. Code has natural ways in which it can create new layers of abstraction over repetitive ideas, at whatever level is convenient.
But with Gherkin, you're faced with "now I have to write new steps that call the implementing code of the old steps or figure out if I can call the old steps directly and have them still work in a sequence". It is no longer a matter of using your "Extract Method" or copy-pasting some lines into a method with parameters.
Because Gherkin introduces so much more friction/resistance to refactoring, those feature files are much less likely to be refactored. Thus, the copy/pasting of blocks of steps will continue and the tests will start losing that higher level expressiveness that was the justification for using Cucumber.
Testing behavior is a good idea. Writing your tests at a very high level, where you can understand the whole scenario at a glance, and give it data tables to consume, and follow that Given/Then structure, is all possible with code.
Fewer than 1,000? To be honest, even before AI, I'm surprised it ever got more than 50 or a 100 in some StackExchanges. It was on borrowed time especially after reading a lot about the moderator drama/issues.
I've never played this game, neat! But with all this decompiling, maybe someone will make an open source, neat sequel to Math for the Real world? that would be cool.
The best thing in my opinion is using the TurboTax Desktop software, installing it on a VM and spinning that up only when you need to do taxes. The import/export relies on tax files from the previous season, but they seem to essentially be slightly encrypted archives.
What do you mean when you say 'formalize'? I mean, a full tax document is just each form with each 'line' as an entry by itself and then at the end, all the calculations get performed against that.
I resigned a year ago, L65. The service I worked on was 5 engineers, within a few months’ time it was just me. Was always rated a 140 come connect season.
>My Spanish teacher was a Colombiana and she always pointed out the innate patriarchal traits of the Spanish language while rolling her eyes.
Was the eye roll part of the sarcasm or...? Colombian and other related Spanish speaking cultures do the same things, so what's her point, to feel like she's sticking it to the invisible spanish dude?
No, she genuinely hated that even though it is part of Colombian culture too. But being part of a culture doesn't mean you 100% agree with everything.
I'm Dutch myself and I hate many things in Dutch culture. Especially those stemming from the calvinist influences. It's one of the reasons I don't live there anymore.
reading these comments are so interesting to me. I would've thought a video is a video, but I guess maybe there's some codec settings behind the scenes? On Firefox, I get the washout. On Brave/Chrome, it looks normal.
reading these comments are so interesting to me. I would've thought a video is a video, but I guess maybe there's some codec settings behind the scenes? On Firefox, I get the washout. On Brave/Chrome, it looks normal.
If anything it needs more light to force the camera to turn down the exposure because the LEDs on the keys are bright. Almost all indoor home videos, youtube or zoom, could be improved by more light.
I think there's a difference between a standard PDF viewer and basic functionality, vs a full PDF authoring suite like Adobe. For some of the basic features in one of the comments, I'm not quite sure how tried and tested tools that are simple like Foxit PDF don't fit the bill for most things. Unless you're trying to process gobs of PDFs in headless mode or do some sort of analysis... eh.
Is there a real use case for manually authoring a PDF directly? I assumed everyone would either use a word processor or some other tool that exports as pdf rather than editing a pdf as if it was a word doc.
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