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By Western standards - yes. OTOH, as Sander points out, in some parts of the world this is considered a decent (and even a great) salary. You can't judge the entire world by the standards of the richest countries.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought we were still speaking in context to the UAE, the 12th richest country in the world, where $7 an hour is still slave wages.
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I sit corrected.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Western standards".
We have 2 provinces in Canada where the minimum wage is still below $12.00 CAD; about $9.00 U.S.
Those "wage earners" then typically only get about 15-20 hours per week just so that they're not entitled to benefits.
They have to work 2 or 3 jobs to actually exist; if they can find them and manage it.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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That's the offer, the reality is that they will take your documents away and not pay even those.
I have a very dim view of the UAE, and I'm being very, very euphemistical.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Randor wrote: Is it even possible to live in the UAE on $2 per hour?!?
[Monty Python]
Luxury!
[/Monty Python]
Remember, some CEOs are being "paid" a buck a year...
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We're so screwed...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh no - robots are on their way to take over the ministry of silly walks - will they leave anything for humanity?
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If I was that robot, I would be getting a bit miffed with the guy shoving me all the time... 😵
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What is the generic name / category / whatever of "...The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software..." in this scenario ?...
Here's what I want to do...
- Make a pic of a printed piece of paper with my phone
- Move that pic to my PC
- Use that file as input for The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software
- Wait five seconds
- Ta-Da
- I have the words from that piece of paper...
- In a text file (i.e., Ascii Text)
- In a Libre Office Document file (i.e., ODF format)
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OCR: Optical Character Recognition[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I have the words from that piece of paper...
My phone, when it recognizes text on a pic, offers to OCR the pic for me. I've never tried it, but it might simply be the steps:
1. Take pic
2. let phone OCR it for you
3. open your email on your phone
4. paste and email yourself the text.
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Android ?
I have never seen that on mine.
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Then you need to install Google Lens.
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You might also look into OneNote's OCR capabilities. It should make your job really simple.
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Learning Selenium for a new job that starts on the 23rd...
0) When you call driver.Quit , it's supposed to kill the driver process (running in windows), but it doesn't. This statement is true for both chrome and firefox. I had to write code to kill the associated processes for both the driver and the browser. What's worse, the chrome driver (of which multiple are spawned) will throw a Access Denied exception when you try to kill the chromedriver process, so you have to eat exceptions thrown by the Process.Kill() method top avoid failing the test simply because you're killing their freakin' process spawnage. (Firefox does not exhibit this problem, FWIW).
1) Selenium does not like element IDs that contain hyphens, so instead of doing By.Id() , I have to do By.CssSelector() to find an element by ID. Lesson - always use ByCssSelector for finding by ID.
I came up with a TestBase class that handles the process cleanup, a TestMaster class (derived from TestBase ) that contains the browser-agnostic test methods, and finally, two browse-specific test classes that inherit from TestMaster .
The test method in TestMaster simply navigates to my own home page, makes sure the title is correct, and then finds/clicks a menu item, and checks to see if a specific section exists. Simple, but a decent exercise. This means I can test for pretty much any browser that is configured in the BaseTest class - I'm running Win7 with Firefox and Chrome installed in a VM, so I don't have Edge, but I could add Opera and Brave if there are drivers for them.
I suppose that despite its quirks, Selenium is a decent automation test tool. I think I'm going to see if the @Marc-Clifton Fluent Web API Integration Testing[^] can be wrangled into this stuff...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just curious, is this a new job within the same organization, or a completely new organization?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Completely new. At my current job, they keep making noise about doing unit and automated ui testing, but once again, our alarming lack of personnel and complete lack of ability to do proper agile/scrum, capped off by over-the-top security restrictions prevents the team from adopting any tools to perform that kind of testing. It’s maddening.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, I've been there, done that, for DHS/CBP.
"Work smarter, not harder!" Oh, and you're not allow to write script for anything...
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#realJSOP wrote: I think I'm going to see if
Well dang, that'd be cool. Let me know how the wrangling goes.
And yes, Selenium, when I've played around with it, is temperamental.
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This one: The Lounge[^]
Everything went as expected, except that one thing I can't fix myself and I don't know who can
Apparently, someone deleted some DNS records so I can't hook up my custom domain name anymore.
It worked for DEV, TEST and another PROD service, but not the one they use first thing Monday morning.
The person I had on stand-by has access to pretty much all systems, except DNS.
Other people who weren't on stand-by and who might've helped went straight to voicemail.
Sent out an email to IT support saying these DNS records have to be added.
Let's hope they'll make it before 9AM Monday morning (yeah, right)
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