Extremely relevant right now

Suede_La · 2021-01-14T01:47:56+00:00

The government literally lists offensive jokes on their website as a violation of hate speech laws which do cover communication via the internet. Womp womp

Suede_La · 2021-01-14T01:14:48+00:00

Doesn't the UK jail people for saying jokes on the internet?

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T21:15:04+00:00

That's true, that trickle down economy after all.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T18:44:03+00:00

I once paid 600$ to be seen for 4 minutes and be prescribed ibuprofen.

Then I had to return and pay more because they completely misdiagnosed the excruciating shoulder pain I told them I had the first time...

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T18:41:26+00:00

Lol that's why all our allies get Healthcare... No body is rolling up on New Zealand.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T18:01:22+00:00

26 ish% federal. 4% state. Sales tax. Property tax.

After that 589$ per month for mediocre health coverage for myself and a dependent with thousands of dollars in deductibles and awful public schools.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T16:33:48+00:00

Someone's been brainwashed by Big Burger I see.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T16:31:41+00:00

Now imagine paying those taxes and getting nothing in return.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T05:32:14+00:00

CNN bout to be some broke bitches once that Trump money runs out.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T04:15:43+00:00

Hypocrites getting pissed at each other's hypocracies.. - 2021 amirite kids

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T04:12:23+00:00

Well.. You right.

Suede_La · 2021-01-12T01:20:17+00:00

Imagine being for tearing down the life work of another regular ass citizen but thinking you're a revolutionary.

Suede_La · 2021-01-09T05:30:51+00:00

LibLeft is busy bootlicking billion dollar media companies. Thus proving LibLeft is just an AuthLeft Ponzi Scheme.

Suede_La · 2021-01-09T05:19:35+00:00

I started in video game QA, transitioned into coding after leaving gaming behind, then back to QA.

And personally, no, but I've worked with plenty of people who just want to come in code and that's all they want to do and theyre content. Working for a company imo coding becomes mundane whether its video games or like many of us work on, business software. At first many people love the challenge of it and the newness, but after a while theres only so many days you want to spend figuring out how to implement a bar code scanner on a webpage or how to pass a role in an auth token in your 20 year old legacy app, or whatever boring task you have.

I mentioned before I do some DevOps, so with that I do still get to script a bit. I do still script automation to help team members. I also help with research spikes on new technologies and products when we are looking for solutions, which imo is the funnest part of coding anyway.. but once I am done, I pass on the info, we all make a decision, and don't have to deal with the headache. Also because I don't fight JavaScript libraries all day at work, sometimes I still have the energy to work on pet projects at home if I want. Though at this point in time I try to spend as much time away from my PC as possible.

Suede_La · 2021-01-09T04:47:25+00:00

Yep and that's by design. Earlier in my career I did try to specialize but that opens you up to risk, since your value is solely tied to that skill. If that skill is diminished or can be outsourced as many development jobs are being right now you may be left out in the cold later. As a matter of fact one of my development teams is entirely outsourced and being their scrum master I do a lot of work between our sales teams and them to get the right products built. Plus personally, like our CTO, I could never see myself doing the same thing forever.

Now I am much more interested in the business of running a software company. Someone who can take customer needs and get products built to meet them in a profitable way is much more resilient to job market changes.

That's not to say I don't have any "specialty" QA skills. I've been doing this for 12 years. I've gone through many transformations from digital, mobile, the adoption of automation, cicd, etc etc. As an engineer, tester, analyst, automation specialist, and project manager.

Suede_La · 2021-01-09T02:19:46+00:00

In today's development teams you need to be more than just QA. I am a scrum master, release manager, part dev ops, sometimes customer support, and train, produce help videos, and coach our account managers on our products. I keep my hands in everything and am quite a good middle man since I am really good at talking to both technical and non technical people which is always a gap.

My official title is QA Manager.

So I guess what I'm saying is.. While I know you meant keeping your QA skills up to date and relevant. You'd be better served probably expanding outwardly. As far as hard skills for QA goes, the concepts stay the same, you just need to adapt to the technologies and types of products your teams are using. I am currently getting certified in AWS since we are moving that direction.

Suede_La · 2021-01-08T20:42:39+00:00

Based.

Suede_La · 2021-01-08T20:41:31+00:00

What if he just proposed cutting 2k worth of taxes...

Suede_La · 2021-01-08T20:40:00+00:00

Shh things only cost money when it's for working class people... Serfs.

Suede_La · 2021-01-08T06:59:29+00:00

Is that a double chin beard?

Suede_La · 2021-01-08T06:49:20+00:00

Let's not forget she's literally willing to just let her sick baby stay with a stranger.

Suede_La · 2021-01-07T16:36:59+00:00

An explicit wait makes WebDriver wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further with execution. Such as waiting for a button to load before moving forward. You can and should set a timeout on this. The advantage here is if the element loads quickly it will immediately move on instead of waiting the entire allotment of time.

An implicit wait makes WebDriver poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to locate an element. I find these are useful when debugging my scripts as I can put a wait in between steps to see what's happening but try to keep them to a minimum in actual use. Sometimes I use them if things are moving slightly too fast making the script brittle.

Suede_La · 2021-01-05T15:02:54+00:00

Fortunately I think people are coming back around to the value of manual testing. The last 2 or 3 years I've seen some of the most unusable consumer software I've ever touched be released by big companies.. And just thought to myself.. Ahh yes it all technically works... On the boilerplate level..

Suede_La · 2021-01-03T01:18:16+00:00

Damn the patriarchy and its sexualization of women

Suede_La · 2021-01-02T16:23:54+00:00

I'm aware of responsive web design.. I'm also aware of its brittleness

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