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Location: Upstate, South Carolina.

Remote: Yes.

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.

Apple Private Relay is on by default for a lot of Apple products these days. This is why my account was banned.

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.

I worked at a place that kept their legacy servers running through eBay parts.

The only reason they started migrating was because it started getting too expensive and hard to find old parts.

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.