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SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | India | Senior QA (manual+automation)

I am Fagun Bhavsar from Bengaluru, Karnataka India and was working as a Senior QA Consultant for an Edutech company called Zinc Learning Labs (www.zinclearninglabs.com) from July 2017 till June 2019. I was a part of remote engineering team, was looking after end-to-end QA operation. I am having more than 14 yrs of experience as a QA (Manual/Automation - both Web and Mobile Apps), my automation experience for mobile apps is limited. Currently, I am working on Selenium webdriver with Ruby - developing a test framework using POM as a design pattern.

Prior to my current job, from 2012, I have involved and evolved as a QA person, establishing the end-to-end QA operation for a startups like - Practo and Qikwell (both are Healthcare startup) and Commonfloor (Real estate startup). I always look up to work with a team, from whom I can always learn and contribute my learnings back in whatever manner I can. At the same time, I am also very much into working with new technologies, solving critical problems for end users.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fagunbhavsar/
https://github.com/fagunbhavsar
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>Business produces goods and services.
Finance is an online multiplayer game.

But finance is also products & services.

Think of a corn farmer. It's easier to think of him adding tangible value to society because "corn == food".

In contrast, finance just seems like useless office workers copy pasting numbers around in Excel spreadsheets. (This is probably true in many cases.)

But the farmer often wants to sell "futures" which is a product & service provided by the financial industry. Instead of using the jargon of "futures", we can just say the farmer wants a product/service to give him a "guaranteed-selling-price-regardless-of-future-volatility-of-corn-prices-so-I-can-sleep-at-night".

Other examples of desirable finance products that farmers want include crop insurance and equipment loans/leases.

>They are two weakly-connected systems.

Farmers' food crops and the financial products/services of of futures is an example of how businesses making tangible products and the finance industry are strongly connected.
This makes me think of this video of a 1984 demonstration of a freight train deliberately crashing directly into a container of nuclear material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc
Forgive me for asking but what does GP here stand for?
If nobody has the whole picture, how can we be sure if it's beneficial?

edit: Or asked differently: What do we have now with high frequency trade established compared to the situation before?
I'm not denying it's offloading a problem, but it's not the same scale of problem and the resolution needed is on a far longer time scale as well.

You simply can't compare a worldwide, global, catastrophic change in climate, causing millions to die, species to go instinct, and trillions of dollars in damages to... this. What exactly is your reasoning in making them equal?
Lunar orbit seems much more worth investigating than solar orbit
As pointed out in one of my other comments, it's not zero carbon, it's slightly more carbon intensive than wind or solar (actually I misread that graph, they're basically tied but all ahead of fossil fuels), both of which are getting better on that scale as they expand.

So it's more expensive and it therefore does less to solve the problem. And every discussion about it devolves into "aren't those silly hippies stupid unlike us rational types, we'd have solved climate change already if the damn hippies hadn't been so irrational" which seems like a great way to hijack people's emotions to drive them towards bad decisions, and basically echos climate change denial strategy.

If your argument for nuclear sound like something a Fox host would say then that's a bad sign, right?

That's why I associate it with climate denial.
Several years ago I did want to fix something in Firefox, and it was far easier to just patch a few bytes in the binary (I think it might've been a string constant) than go through the whole build process with all the resources that takes, including trying to find where in the original source to actually make the change, and then still have a totally different binary than the one you wanted to fix, with other (bug-causing) changes you didn't want due to the different environment you built it in.

Of course, if you try to fix/revert something that was purposely broken or removed for some Mozilla reason, it is not going to accept your changes either.

One of the ideals of open-source was to make it easy to modify and share software. For a lot of the larger projects, I feel like that has missed the mark. I write (mostly small and always portable) software, yet the "build bloat" is a huge turn-off. On the other hand, I've had good experience with the smaller open-source projects, those that need a minimal amount of tooling and resources to build. Some examples I can think of include libpng, zlib, and even OpenSSL.
You can invoke an anonymous function assigned to an instance property using `__invoke()`:

class Foo {
public $var;
}
$foo = new Foo();
$foo->bar = function() { echo "Hello World\n"; };
$foo->bar->__invoke();

Not pretty but that's how I've always done it.
Yes, presuming that all contractors are of the same quality. Technically, you might try to enforce this quality by using a contract with penalties. The idea being that acceptance of the contract ensures the job will be done properly, or you will be sufficiently compensated for an improperly done job.

The biggest issue here is that when selling a product, every potential buyer will get the same product. However, when buying a service, not every provider will necessarily provide the exact same service.
This also depends on what tool you use for development and the size of the project of course.
If you are coding for a large project on a rich IDE, inference is not a bad experience because Your IDE is going to give you enough hint.
That's not a fair statement.

Psychology is an extremely complex science, similar to weather forecasting. We still don't get forecasting right beyond a couple of days at best. There are so many factors and moving parts in the brain, that its impossible right now to take them all into account. Especially since every psychologist would agree, we still don't know all of the moving parts yet. It's also a very young field in comparison. It's only been a serious scientific endeavor since the Freud and Jung time. Roughly only 100 years.
Yeah, if anyone needs a hero :P
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You are a mining engineer. Perhaps you know about the Asse mine in Germany. Radioactive waste has been stored there. However the storage suffers from water inflow and is in danger of collapsing. What is your opinion about this?
A coworker shared this neat little tool while searching for improvements for our Docker setups on macOS. Recent Wordpress projects hat response times of 3-5 seconds(!), which we could cut in half by using docker-sync. Tried this with some other projects and works very well. Even if it requires some configuration it is worth trying out if you are having performance issues with Docker.
Java adding type inference is similar to PHP which has initially been dynamically typed adding static type features in a sense that both are trying to improve their type system gradually by adding more features.

The tooling around has also improved so they can do it now.

I like the idea of language to support more type features because there is no one ultimate type of solution for everything and in every situation.

Moreover, these are all safe changes. There is less possibility for developers to abuse these features compared to what they can do with implicit conversion, for instance.
Sorry, but on second thought this reply only lists the negative side of my experience. On the positive side, CataWiki has been excellent in communication and sharing feedback throughout the process and they have a really nice office and great culture. Definitely a place I could see myself working at so the company itself is not bad, just that the whiteboard part of the interview process could be improved/replaced.
Hi,

I'm Juan Li(Amy), from China. I was used to be a Medical researcher, but now I'm working as a junior software engineer in the Netherlands. I'm wondering if there is chance that you will interested in hiring a junior developer?

You could find my profile in here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-li2017/

Looking forward to your kind reply!
Best,
Amy
It would have been done via proxy configuration.
Can you clarify "use WASM constructs as macros"?

Here's a repo with working test scripts and the tutorial pdf: https://github.com/namin/inc
> happen to be the months where everyone was buying.

So, in many ways the way any market distortion happens. If everybody else is buying, sell. If everybody else is selling, buy.
I bought a used "One Plus 3T" last spring and am still using it. At this point it looks like I can use it for one or two more years. I think this is not bad for a device which came out in 2015. I recently got the update for Android 9 and security patches are from June, so it's not that bad either.

On the other hand, One Plus seems to behave somewhat special here. The Samsung phone of my mother might have received one or two minor updates and it's already down to the ground although it's not even two years old, I think.
I was wondering why his books look bad on a computer screen. Thank you very much. I was reading Concrete Mathematics and kept being annoyed by the quality.
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No, these lists just celebrate the outliers - people who extraordinarily successful. It can't be everyone's goal to make it onto one of these lists, because there are billions of people in the world. The vast majority of us are also fumbling through life, and a few are lucky enough to achieve lots of success. They make it onto these lists because they have an unusual and interesting story. I think the word "success" has become overloaded with some insane expectations, especially in media, or in Silicon Valley circles. I don't think it makes sense to label these writers or entrepreneurs as simply "successful". They're the very top of the field, just like an Olympic gold medalist.

This list is about some of the most popular writers who were over the age of 35 when they became famous. But I was talking to a successful writer on Reddit. They weren't super famous, but they made a good living from writing and selling some YA and fiction. They weren't overnight millionaires, but they did end up starting a small publishing company. They made a solid living, and they were able to raise a family and save for retirement. I don't think they made it to the top of any bestseller lists, but I would still call them a very successful writer.

This is also one of the reasons why I like the Indie Hackers community [1], and also the SaaS podcast [2]. I really like reading stories about people who are building SaaS products that eventually make it $100k per year in revenue. I find these stories much more interesting and relevant than reading about huge fundraising rounds, or the history of Uber and Facebook. You have a much greater chance of success with a smaller sustainable company instead of a crazy moonshot. But you won't get featured in TechCrunch, and you won't make it onto any of these 30 under 30 lists.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com

[2] https://saasclub.io/saas-podcast
>getting the dust it produces off those panels during the summer is going to be expensive.

We're talking like a couple minimum wage employees with leaf blowers and ladders. Sure it doesn't cost nothing but in the context of a commercial operation it's not thaaaat expensive.
I agree about 'nag ' alerts which trigger every time being quite useless - if a parent is so phased out they forget their child they're probably going to tune out routine alerts as well. And yes motion sensors would be costly.
So let's go even more basic. Seems like these accidents happen predominantly in rear facing car seats. So just a light at the back of the car seat which turns on when the seat belt is fastened would indicate there's a baby in it. Kinda like an "occupied" sign on airline restrooms. If the baby's seat belt is fastened it's a sure indicator there's a baby in it ( I mean who re-fastens the belt after taking their kid out lol) and the light would be visible to the driver through the rear view mirror or when they get out.
Can't say much about manufacturers trying to escape liability but you're probably right about that.
Apparently there is a bill being presented for a law to make all car manufacturers install alerts to check back seats but again, routine alerts are easily ignorable
Also no mention of the fact that palantir and anduril may have their own list of ethical challenges.
The answer to that question may come down to philosophy. Does it help your daily work to really understand things that are only slightly connected to what you are doing?

I've only read a tiny bit of TAOCP but I believe reading it would be quite useful in the long run. But if I were to read it, I wouldn't do it for the usefulness but rather because gathering knowledge and understanding is the right thing to do. There must be a million things that are more useful in the short term, and really reading TAOCP is bound to take years.
Do we have software to easily simulate that?
Lichess rating distributions display peaks at round numbers
Houses don't have to appreciate at higher than inflation in order for them to create wealth; they just have been in many areas due to the overall economic expansion. They can appreciate more slowly than inflation and the effect of leverage can still give them cash-on-cash returns higher than inflation or alternative investments.

On a conventional mortgage with 20% down, if the house appreciates at 1% per year in a 2% per year inflation environment, a $100K house goes up by $1K each year. Someone who bought that house with $20K down sees a $1K gain on their $20K cash investment, for a 5% cash on cash return. They also have a place to live typically substantially cheaper than they were paying in rent. Obviously, where they increase even faster than inflation, this is wildly beneficial and if they decline much at all, it's terrible.

3% down mortgages seem to cost around 1.25% more than 20% down mortgages. It's about 1/8-1/4% on the base interest rate and 0.5%-1% for PMI. With a base interest rate on a 30-fixed around 4%, paying 5.25% on a 3% down mortgage is still a good deal IMO.

If landlords had to pay cash for rental properties, I'm not convinced that you'd see such a surplus of rental properties such that it would drive rents down significantly. Rents are driven by ability and willingness to pay. Many small landlords would be forced out of the supplying housing to others work. If landlords could borrow money to buy houses but owner occupants couldn't, I think you'd see a massive defection of the housing economy in favor of landlords.

Obviously, anyone could borrow on unsecured terms. It seems likely that medium and large landlords could exploit that (borrowing against the projected cash flows, but without using real estate as collateral for the loans) and that would also result in a large shift of power away from owner-occupants and small landlords.
That analogy does not really work. To use a modern car for transport, its power source can usually be treated as a black box, but if you don't know the math of Big-O, you don't understand it, and if you don't understand it, you may be unable to apply it in a situation where you have not rote-learned the answer, or, worse, misapply it without noticing. I have seen enough of this to know that it is a real problem.
I think the reality is that more people would accept missing out on security patches than missing out on features, once those features gain traction on sites.

For example, Netflix' use of in-browser DRM makes it a must-have for mainstream browsers.
Over 1M South Korean payment cards put up for sale on Dark Web
Meraki marks Windows store/updates with a false positive
Hypothesised to be interpretable as empirical evidence that some users stop playing when they reach their target rating to avoid losing points: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/ckm6w2/does_anyone_e...
This doesn't solve any part of the waste management problem; it only frustrates safety for a small benefit. High-level nuclear waste generates heat, but is not kept hot; it's stored in cool pools. Allowing it to reach a high temperature and using it for district heating is not sensible.
>Just Got off the phone with Meraki Support.

>Representative said that it was a False Positive and AMP was blocking windows updates. Engineering was working to get it resolved. I had already opened a ticket so he posted the below information to the ticket and said the ticket would be updated when engineering had more information.

PROBLEMS DISCUSSED:
AMP blocking Windows update.

ACTIONS TAKEN:
File in question: W32.779C90C974-100.SBX.TG

NEXT STEPS:
Further investigate this malicious activity.
Keep the customer posted with updates.

>Only 480 events in the last hour from my network on the first email. I called support and they were about worthless until I got to the supervisor. I also emailed my sales person and the vendor I purchase it through.

VirusTotal Scan - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/779c90c974a4f1d927070cbf...
Trying to toss radioactive waste into the Sun would be a ridiculous waste of fuel. To do that, you have to cancel out Earth's orbital velocty; that's 30 km/s of ∆v (or execute some very clever gravity assists).

What you'd want to do is to shoot it out into an orbit around the Sun that's slightly lower or higher than Earth's. The chance of it somehow returning to Earth is so low that the Sun will go out before it happens.

Still, the whole concept is wasteful and dangerous anyway. For one, as others mentioned, a launch failure would mean large-scale contamination on the planet. Two, you can safely store this waste on Earth for many orders of magnitude less money and work.

> People still seem to make the same mistake our ancestors did regarding tossing stuff into the ocean.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” Throwing something out into orbit around the Sun isn't going to be a problem, like, ever.
> When a pension fund wanted to execute a trade, they would have had to cross the spread, and, statistically speaking, half the spread would immediately accrue to the market maker as profit. ..so this is money that YOU, the holder of a pension, are losing, and that THEY, the rich folks acting as market makers that the public likes to get mad at, are taking away from you.

This is totally incorrect. Let's say a pension fund wants to sell 1000 shares of APPL. The bid is $99, the ask is $101. They sell to the bidders and get $99,000 (minus some fees to the exchange probably). Your pension scheme just successfully liquadated their position.

At this point, contrary to what you say, the market maker has made 0 profit. What they've done, is taken a position in APPL which they think theoretically is profitable, but they aren't in the business of speculating on APPL. So now they have to hedge that risk by buying negatively correlated products and slowly trying to offload that position either by letting the market fill their offers on the ask, or hoping the bid improves. Once they have paid for their hedging and closed out their position according to their strategy over a period of time, whatever they have left is their profit.

What you paid that market maker for was for taking on the risk of holding the product whilst spending time to offload it to the rest of the market.

What GSAT do is say "Hey, don't sell this to the market, let us take care of that for you"- which is exactly the same service a market maker provides except they don't quote publicly, and in fact they probably do this by working with market makers.
> IIRC NSS (/etc/nsswitch.conf etc.) needs dynamic linking for anything beyond the basic files backend. But, again IIRC, musl has never supported NSS anyway so that's kind of a moot point.

I frankly have never ever ever seen anyone actually configure NSS outside of the defaults.
Still more substantial criticism of Apple than your comment. Besides that, insults are often used as a rhetoric element, is that too hard to grasp for people on HN or why is this so frowned upon?
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A shortcut is better than clicking the Hamburger menu icon, then "More" then Task Manager / typing it into the browser.
There isn't potential for further growth if it gets bought. They just want to serve malware to the existing userbase.
At 400 Km the ISS is still fighting atmospheric drag though. 100 Km is the begining of space but there is still stuff up there.
If you upgrade your application to 7.4, all the code doesn't have typed properties.

Only when you then add them after the upgrade you should have tests for that or a static analyzer that tells you the changes you make are correct.
Grandparent comment, i.e., two links up in the comment tree.

(It's a common term on internet forums -- I learned it from Slashdot years ago)
Don't be discouraged. No company is able to hire only experienced, talented technical staff. Every company needs juniors.
> life of any quality is infinitely better than no life

From someone who's been on the other side of the story (albeit nowhere close in severity) I can tell you that this is a philosophical debate that you might have with yourself for years and not really reach a solid and stable conclusion. Because it will change depending on your state. Like promising never to drink again during the worst drunkenness or hangover.

On one hand that low quality of life may be the worst thing you ever experienced and there's the distinct risk of going even lower. On the other hand we have no idea what lies on the other side - nothing or something that may be better or worse. And of course there's always the sliver of hope that all goes well and giving up on life too soon is a waste.
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The added benefit is that surplus electricity can make desalination practical.
No, this is a pointless waste of time.
Source: work in low latency tech.
I think there’s a difference between betting on a winning horse and making the right choices.
elaborate your answer
Sure, it's technically possible, but it's an order of magnitude more work.
Here's a disposal site in Finland: http://www.posiva.fi/en/final_disposal/basics_of_the_final_d...
Oh, I'm with you regarding technical reading being a good way to fall asleep! But reading someone else's train of thought is a different way to engage the brain than trying to figure out a mathematical proof on your own - that's a lot more like what pondering over programming problems would be like for us I think
among other things. i forgot the /s in my comment
GrandParent comment.

The comment directly above is the parent, and the comment above the parent is the grandparent—in this case the GP they’re referring to was 1e-9’s comment.
I would try to toss if at all right into the Sun.
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GP grand parent
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