Willing to relocate: No, can travel a few times a year though.
Technologies: All things testing (Selenium/Playwright especially). Most experience in windows world (Azure/C#/etc).
Résumé/CV: Over 12 years of experience driving test automation, transforming QA teams, and leading quality initiatives across diverse industries. I’ve contributed to both fast-paced startups and established enterprises, spanning healthcare, finance, and gaming. Working with global organizations such as NASDAQ and Rockstar Games. I'm also a documentation fiend and USA Today Best Selling author.
Email: hn [at] j4.gg
Not looking to hire? Just curious about testing at your startup or org? I'm always down to talk.
We have this in the US. Open a business and you'll get spammed with a lot of providers offering stuff that is either free, un needed, or overpriced.
"You need this sign in your break room else you'll be fined $10,000! Just subscribe for $299/year and we'll mail you labor posters each year." These can be found for like $10 and don't change yearly.
"This form needs to be filed else you'll be fined! Pay us $499 and we'll take care of it!" Free to file online.
Even forming a business in my state is like 2 forms and $125 and can be done all online. But if you were to google how to, you'd find all these people to "Help out" and it'd end up costing you $1000-2000 for their "Help".
Gamepass is pretty generous. Gamers see MS buy a studio and add their catalog to gamepass. PC gamers appreciate that Xbox games are also usually on PC.
Nintendo sends a ton of C&D letters to smaller developers, and are pretty anti-emulation. Games never go on sale. Remakes are expensive ($60 for Super Mario RPG for example).
Sony just had the whole "You need a PSN account to play a PC game" thing. But also, you can't create a PSN account in some countries, so sorry you can't play the PC game you bought anymore. They ended up walking it back though. You also need to pay to play online, which is a thing on xbox as well. But I think that's usually drowned out by the "PC Gamers" who don't need to pay for something like that.
> In 2024, the revenue in the Luxury Goods market in the United States amounts to US$75.6Bn (Watches, Eyewear, Jewlery, fashion, cosmetics/fragrance, leather goods)
> Americans wagered a record $119.84 billion on sports betting in 2023
> Slots and table games across the U.S. generated $43.79 billion
>Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?
I use a google account with a catch all domain. {Website/Store} @ short domain that goes to the same mailbox. I reply from name @ different domain, though.
The benefit is when I give it over the phone it's easy to say "StoreName"@ than spelling my name or using another longer email.
> Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card?
Many times people who steal credit cards will try to make small purchases to validate cards. Since there is no human interaction someone who has stolen ~10 cards could try each one by buying a $1-2 coffee and seeing which ones work. The machine takes photos which could then be turned over if/when the card holder reports fraud.
I've worked places where it would be 1000x harder getting a spare laptop from the IT closet to run some processing than it would be to spend $50k-100k at Azure.
This is a huge issue in self publishing. Sure, some people got lucky and can churn out a book a month and make decent money. But so many more sell books/courses on 'how to make money'.
Some will show you their revenue, "I'm a six figure author!" But frequently hide how much they spend on ads or editing. Or try to hide that they're making ~$50k on courses/affiliate sales and their net is... ~$50k. Writing is a net zero income for them and most of it is just used to sell courses/products.
Chances are he had a blog or something with content/pages and got approved. Then just re-used the codes/keys for the affiliate links on this new site. Once you start making money Amazon doesn't care.
Source: Me. I had a comparison tool for products with similar layout to this. They originally denied it citing 'lack of content'. Made a 2nd website with some blogs/reviews, it was approved. Re-used the code/api for the comparison tool and closed the other website. They haven't complained in 12 years.
Even with steam I can buy a game on steam and install it on steam. Then when I go run it, I need to first install another company's launcher. This includes signing up, confirming my email, etc.
Even single player games will require you launch, sign up, and auth with EA's servers before you can play said game.
Gel bait has been huge for me. We're in an area that gets roaches pretty frequently. They still get in, but we'll find them dead and in much smaller numbers than when we used a spray. About 2-4/year now always dead vs ~10-15/year half of which were alive.
This is how it is in some motorsports series as well. I had a teacher who was a mechanic for a racing team. They'd leave something 'big' broken for tech so that the people would find it, have them fix it. He said they'd miss a bunch of smaller stuff, but would feel accomplished for finding the 'big' error.
>In CA, there is a differing payscale for teachers w/ a Bachelors degree, a Masters degree/20 post bachelor units, and a PhD.
It's this way in other states as well. I briefly looked into teaching and the pay range was $30-45k because I only had a bachelors. My 10+ years of experience meant nothing. If someone was teaching any other subject fresh from college with a PhD it'd be closer to 60k-70k.
Years of teaching didn't mean much either. It was basically cost of living pay raises unless I went back to school and got a masters/phd.
>Question: before Apple invented airpods, how many lithium ion battery powered headphones were in landfills? Nearly zero, because folks used wired headphones.
Bluetooth headphones existed prior to 2016 when the AirPods were released. Wireless headsets for phones were also very disposable. Wireless buds were also poor quality and didn't last.
One issue is with how the census/fed defines vacancy.
>A housing unit is vacant if no one is living in it at the time of the interview, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. In addition, a vacant unit may be one which is entirely occupied by persons who have a usual residence elsewhere. New units not yet occupied are classified as vacant housing units if construction has reached a point where all exterior windows and doors are installed and final usable floors are in place.
If a builder is building a house and it has a roof/windows/doors/floors but no occupancy permit, utilities are not hooked up, and there are no appliances/furniture that is counted as 'vacant' even though you technically can't live there.
If I left an apartment today (12th) and my lease ends the 30th. Even if a lease is in place at the start of the next month that still counts as a vacancy.
If I have a 2nd home I share with family/friends/short term lease that is generally occupied, it's still "vacant".
Enter your zip, type of grass you want, where you're starting and it gives you a rough plan to follow for seeding, feeding, and pre-emergent.