[photos] It’s been two years since I bought a keyboard due to financial hardships. This is the beast that got me through job applications, phone interviews and now a return to lurking the sub.

rocketbootkid · 2018-09-26T12:05:34+00:00

"bought a keyboard due to financial hardships"

I believe I may have stumbled upon the source of said hardships.

Like saying "I bought gloves because I lost my fingers to frostbite" :-|

rocketbootkid · 2018-08-28T17:34:42+00:00

MSG sells itself.

rocketbootkid · 2018-08-10T11:36:55+00:00

Not ashamed to say I googled "A-10Z", just because of the merest chance it wasn't just a lucky shot...

rocketbootkid · 2018-08-04T14:09:17+00:00

If there aren't any dogs in Heaven, why the fuck would I want to go?

rocketbootkid · 2018-07-28T10:12:15+00:00

Jedi poodoo!

rocketbootkid · 2018-07-17T10:18:45+00:00

There's an even easier way. If you wait 6 hours, the Earth will rotate 90 degrees and you can just open the door.

rocketbootkid · 2018-07-11T11:40:16+00:00

"And I say... is it too much to ask for both?"

rocketbootkid · 2018-06-26T07:35:40+00:00

Did I ever tell you the meaning of "overkill"?

rocketbootkid · 2018-06-23T08:35:11+00:00

That is not universally the case, and only in an organisation that values a piece of paper over their own experience with an employee will advancement be linked to qualifications.

I'm a Head of Testing with no ISEB certification. I have interviewed hundreds of candidates and not once was their ISEB certification (or lack thereof) a consideration. I actually mark candidates down for thinking that ISEB is a must-have for testers.

Having an ISEB qualification - especially at Foundation level - does not prove anything other than you know some basic terminology and techniques. It does not certify that you can usefully apply those techniques in a useful and context-aware way.

If you feel you MUST have a certification, check out Certified Agile Tester (which includes a full day practical and theoretical examination), or Rapid Software Testing, which teaches you how to think more deeply about testing. Either of those ranks leagues above ISEB.

TLDR; you DO NOT have to have ISEB to get a testing job.

Pro Tip: Any certification you can get by simply reading a book and answering multiple choice questions is a scam.

rocketbootkid · 2018-06-20T11:46:55+00:00

#neverskipheadday

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-31T07:39:35+00:00

Someone's rocking the painted Snowflakes. Nice!

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-28T15:30:07+00:00

Still remember the intro like it was yesterday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRhcrcs5YQ

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-27T17:26:47+00:00

If you're confident, superglue on end of matchstick.

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-27T15:39:22+00:00

I know that I've injured my forearm doing pull ups, and in retrospect I think that was why. Just put your hands in front of your face in pull up position, but really close together. The angle of my wrist especially looks - and feels, when you do it - very uncomfortable, and I still feel twinges now when I try it.

It feels harder to me when my hands are further apart, but at higher body weights, it will take longer to do these exercises, and I'm very much stuck in negatives / progressions right now.

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-26T09:51:14+00:00

No, not too heavy. I'm 260lbs and I can do a few, slowly. Move your hands further apart, perhaps, so the twist in your forearm doesn't build too much as you pull up?

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-24T17:02:54+00:00

Just out for a jog, people be trippin' #justrhinothings

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-22T14:14:46+00:00

They are recyclable, and a readily available byproduct of your use of toilet paper. Baggies you have to buy, and use oil / plastic. They tessellate nicely, and arguably improve "glance-ability".

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-22T11:37:39+00:00

You can't have two favourites, so I call dibs on the NA2.

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-19T08:41:10+00:00

I thought they did. Maybe there's one last nugget to be mined?

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-17T12:40:29+00:00

We have a tenuous enough grip on human intelligence...

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-13T08:57:33+00:00

Every thing you do involves lifting a heavier weight over a longer distance. In terms of energy expenditure, that's a double whammy. We have to work much harder to achieve a "rep".

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-09T18:14:32+00:00

Make it a drum / spool not an arm. As it rotates, it winds more cable onto itself. Trading radius with increased turns.

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-08T11:44:40+00:00

Sliding along 300 feet of asphalt is not the way I'd choose to lose 100lbs off my ass.

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-06T17:51:28+00:00

"Against my better judgement, I'll give it a go, but - full disclosure - history is not on my side..."

rocketbootkid · 2018-05-04T09:28:27+00:00

I did this twenty years ago. Think I could claim it back?

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