Jobs: Adobe e-book development team is recruiting - Page 2

K-Thom · 08-09-2009, 11:04 AM

Well, as someone's signature says, there are 10 people wo are doing binary code. One get's it, the other one doesn't.

=X= · 08-09-2009, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

That was a joke on my part. Apologies if it wasn't immediately apparent.

Okay here is another geek joke

Quote:

There are 10 people in this world.

Those that read binary and those that don't.

This is a QA position, with technical skill, but still not a software development.

I started out my career doing this kind of work, it paid the bills when going while at college, but once I set out to get my BS in CS I don't think this kind of work would have been enough to challenge me.

pilotbob · 08-09-2009, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwjone1

Well, I actually could check off most (not quite all) of the items in the job listing, but I doubt you could afford me, so this is not an application, but more of an observation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwjone1

I got the joke, but then I have over 5 years in the field

Well, if you have 5 years then I'm sure a company like Adobe couldn't "afford" you.

I'm not sure why you make an assumption like that. Talk to me when you have 15 years or more in the field and tell me that 10 years ago you knew it all.

BOb

pilotbob · 08-09-2009, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by =X=

This is a QA position, with technical skill, but still not a software development.

I'm not sure what you did back then. But alot of QA (testing) these days is done by developers... especially on embedded and low level systems. It is extreemly challenging and technical. It usually involves development skills as well as trouble shooting and very good communications skills.

Many people see QA as "entry level", a bunch of monkeys banging on a keyboard of some business app trying to make it fail. But, a good QA person knows how to plan a test, write test plans, define boundary testing, define surface area for security attacks, and then write code to automate it all including controlling the environment etc. QA can be a very technical and challenging job.

BOb

purl4peace · 08-09-2009, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I'm not sure what you did back then. But alot of QA (testing) these days is done by developers... especially on embedded and low level systems. It is extreemly challenging and technical. It usually involves development skills as well as trouble shooting and very good communications skills.

Many people see QA as "entry level", a bunch of monkeys banging on a keyboard of some business app trying to make it fail. But, a good QA person knows how to plan a test, write test plans, define boundary testing, define surface area for security attacks, and then write code to automate it all including controlling the environment etc. QA can be a very technical and challenging job.

BOb

Amen BOb,

Most QA is moving towards automated testing which, depending on the tool requires a knowledge of PERL, UNIX shell scripting, Java, VB, SQL, JCL and/or C.

My last job was working for Satan, er, a major healthcare insurance company working on validating their Claim Book of Record. I had to learn Mainframe tools, SQL, JCL and write macros that would do textfile comparisons (without worrying about "false positives" due to dates, white space etc).

ProDigit · 08-09-2009, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-Thom

Well, as someone's signature says, there are 10 people wo are doing binary code. One get's it, the other one doesn't.

lol!

I get it! Does this extra amount of knowledge give me the job now?

Argel · 08-10-2009, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-Thom

Well, as someone's signature says, there are 10 people wo are doing binary code. One get's it, the other one doesn't.

But if the other one did get it there would be three of them....

ProDigit · 08-10-2009, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argel

But if the other one did get it there would be three of them....

Darn! I see now why I failed the entrance exam!

Mr. Dalliard · 08-11-2009, 02:00 AM

There are only 10 types of people in the world —
those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.

BuddyBoy · 08-16-2009, 06:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Dalliard

There are only 10 types of people in the world —
those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.

Ooooooo, three phase power computing.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Amazon recruiting engineers to improve Kindle browser	anurag	News	10	03-11-2010 08:55 PM
MobiPocket is recruiting in France	SUSGOD	News	13	04-12-2008 01:10 PM

08-09-2009, 11:04 AM	#16
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	Well, as someone's signature says, there are 10 people wo are doing binary code. One get's it, the other one doesn't.

08-11-2009, 02:00 AM	#24
Mr. Dalliard Zealot Posts: 143 Karma: 35 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Device: Kindle 3	There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.