Victoria quizzes Marty in the “Pokemon or Big Data” game, then they talk about Yahoo, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and QA: is manual QA obsolete or still worthwhile?

What Victoria’s up to

• Got back from Thanksgiving (… we recorded this part two weeks ago!)
• Ate chicken and proud!

• Was working on article for NTRSCTN, now published: Why guys in tech bruch of complaints of sexism and racism–and how they can do better

What Marty’s up to

• Also got back from Thanksgiving and on the home stretch for end of fall quarter!
• Thumbs-down on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and chicken

Pokemon or Big Data?

• Play the game yourself!
• Related:
  • Who he play for
  • Programming language inventor or serial killer?

News Roundup

• Mark Zuckerberg pledges to give 99% ($45B) of his Facebook stock to charity in his lifetime
  • NYT: Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Donate 99% of His Facebook Shares for Charity
• Yahoo to discuss selling off their Internet business
  • Yahoo Reconsiders Alibaba Stake Sale; Shares Rise
  • NYT: Transformation at Yahoo Foiled by Marissa Mayer’s Inability to Bet the Farm

Discussion: QA and Automated Testing

• Medium article: Is QA Dead?
• Victoria on unit tests: “You should be able to write your test entirely faster than it would take for you to manually verify something”

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