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Testing Prometheus (the movie)

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Why was this movie not good? It was not bad!! The actors were beautiful with all star cast  The acting was top notch The direction was also brilliant The CGI and stuff was excellent The cinematography was breathtaking Most of the geographical aspects of an alien planet were pretty nicely captured. But the movie lacked something. Something was missing. It even irritated quite a number of audiences. It gave the audience a visual treat but stole the original experience they have craved for decades. The core of movie which is the  story  did not know what it wanted to give to the audience. Resulting in travelling a group of brilliant scientists without letting them know their mission, a pretty girl who works out like crazy but cannot stop running straight, a zombie, an alien snake, a beautiful android who knows too much or just curious, a dead old billionaire who is not really dead, a female scientist (I don’t even want to touch that). And the alien creator guy rips of Mich

How well do you know your QA?

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QA efforts valued based on the bugs that make it to production. Once upon a time in an Asian village, there lived 4 brothers. All the four brothers were doctors. The eldest brother treated many patients for years.  He charged reasonably for the years of treatment. Most of them advanced to terminally ill condition.  Many of them died.  He talked a lot about all the reasons that lead to the patient's death and how his treatments to save the patient became ineffective due to reasons not in his control.  He was famous all over the village and a little in the surrounding villages too. He was very important to them.  He did not get a bad rep either. People thought he did his best. The second brother treated patients with care too for months. He charged an arm and a leg as his fees. A few of his patients became chronically ill even after months of treatment.  Most of his patients survived and recovered.  Few of his patients became terminally ill. He explained abo

Moron Vs. Oxymoron

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I had the luxury of working with insanely smart people. I had the misery of working with mind numbingly inane people too. I had the luxury of working for morons and reporting to oxymoron. The moron are okay, they don't know any better. They can be educated. The oxymoron's they do know better. They purposefully want you to swim against the currents just to prove a point to nobody, not even themselves. They cannot be reasoned with. I would totally run from these!! And I have.

I am a Bitch

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The Circle of Office -  I am a Bitch (not in general) I am my boss' bitch. My boss is their manager's bitch. The manager is the vice president's bitch. The VP is the CEO's bitch. The CEO is the bitch to all the stake holders. Instead of bitching about this situation, I try to be the best bitch I possibly can be (excuse the expression). When it comes to working in an office, we are confined to cubicles physically and to the manager’s invisible boundaries. Learn to live and learn to grow. If you signed up to swim in a pond, do not complain that it is not as challenging as swimming in an ocean. If you signed up to swim in the ocean, do not complain that it is not as predictable as a pond. Do the best you can. Learn to use the currents. Do not work against them. If you do, you will fail and a new swimmer can replace you. One should be replaced for sucking at ones job, not for trying to make a work place better. Update - Well, this is what I thought, t