I have been paid so i guess you can say there was some seriousness to it.

But someone who has an older account couldn't possibly be lying.

Or he doesn't want to connect being part of it to a different account.

Github is back and Bitbucket went down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitbucket.org

What's going on today?

Just tried it and was amazed by how much ads it was already blocking especially on youtube.

Thank you for your reply. I haven't seen this before so I'm guessing it's a new practice.

I believe it was originally a one-time tribute for Robert Morris [1], but it has (partly due to user requests) been used a few subsequent times when people well-known in the hacker community have died.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469. Besides being well-known in the hacker community generally, Morris also had a more local connection, as he was the father of Robert T. Morris, one of Y Combinator's cofounders.

Off the top of my head, Aaron Schwartz, Dennis Ritchie, and Steve Jobs also merited it.

nope, been around for a while, just seldom used.

I have a gut feeling that he works as an SDE in Test (SDET). I have been through the same experience in my first 2 years. SDETs go through a very different experience as compared to a PM or SDE at Microsoft.

Hey there, author of the post here. Yes I am an SDET but what does this change? Are SDETs supposed to go through all this experience? Why nobody is fixing this? So if people are escaping from being a Test engineer, what can we infer about current test engineers?

I tend to agree with your post as I have been through what you are going through. I still regret taking the SDET role. In general SDETs do a lot of janitor kind of work. Cleaning up after the Devs and PMs. At the end of the day what everyone cares is that you have tested everything and not how you do it. I used to do a lot of system admin kind of work i.e. setting up machines, installing OS, running scripts, running existing test suites, etc. instead of writing new tests or new test frameworks. I am afraid this will take a long time to change. The only thing we can do now is move away from the SDET role. I can't guarantee if it'll be any better but it won't be as worse as being an SDET.

I spent 3 years as an sdet; loved it! Know for sure that my dev skills were superior to the senior sde's. know this coz I wrote their code on more than one occasion.

Been at msft twice - first team was shit, second was awesome. Impossible to make blanket statements, the org is just too big.

Also if you get a chance read this blog post written by a Microsoft Dev Manager.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eric_brechner/archive/2011/05/01/tes...

Any chance you could shoot me an email through the contact form on my website? I have some questions.

I have a gut feeling that you work as an SDET. I have been through the same experience in my first 2 years. SDETs go through a very different experience as compared to a PM or SDE at Microsoft.

I totally agree. I only work past 6 if I came in late. Otherwise there are plenty of hobbies to catch up with. Mine is making a nice dinner for myself at the end of the day. In that way you also get more time to work on your personal/side projects or even contribute to open source.

I just noticed people starting to get emails. I'll note it down here for future that emails start going out around 6pm PST.

Haha. I titled it that way because I expect most who will get accepted won't be checking HN as often.