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gowan

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About gowan

https://github.com/jesg

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    i like how the us military makes cost of living adjustments. you have your base pay determined my your rank which is not adjusted by where you live. in addition to that you get a h…

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    Comment #28042266

    imo the granny smith is the all time worse apple. always taste like a green apple (not trying to be ironic) and usually has a thick skin. just plain terrible might as well pick any…

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    Comment #28042151

    the problem with golden delicious is that you need to eat them within 3 days of when they are picked. a good golden should have a thin skin, be sweet, and crisp. i think part of th…

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    Comment #27467451

    do you mean REIT (real estate investment trust) which have special tax treatment in the us?

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    Comment #27198094

    not sure you are aware of this but you can contribute to a SEP IRA[0]. this has a lot of advantages over contributing to a normal ira. in my experience you can contribute more than…

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    Comment #26733819

    non-leisure city biking is hard. the hardest things for me to learn was * if you are getting into a tight spot then own the lane. it is better for a car to see you and hit you then…

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    Comment #22265776

    i'm surprised by how many people on this forum have not stopped indefinitely at a red light on a bike. most lights i've come across are not calibrated for bikes so this isn't a rar…

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    Comment #16765300

    interesting... can you provide a link?

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    Comment #16522323

    this is one of the reasons i created chromedriver-proxy[0] [0] https://github.com/ZipRecruiter/chromedriver-proxy

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    Comment #16193260

    to be fair it is possible to do this from the command line with ffmpeg when using concat[1][2]. i did this when creating real time video from screencast in the chrome remote debugg…

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    Comment #16111418

    this is a tool i created when transitioning form phantomjs to chromedriver. it both manages a pool of chrome browsers and allows you to extend the selenium api.

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    Comment #16043872

    open source stuff i've done: * release ghostdriver 2.0.0 [1]. this is the implementation of the webdriver protocol for phantomjs. unfortunately phantomjs 2.5 was never released :( …

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    Comment #15428654

    this is an interesting idea. i like how it is declarative. acrobat FDF[1] and Apache PDFBox[2] provide something similar but are not declarative. i'd be interested in seeing an app…

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    Comment #15157237

    sounds like an interesting pattern. it would be nice to have a browser extension that abstracts the pattern in the browser.

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    Comment #15157170

    you should skip this post. it is full of anti-patterns. anti-patterns (1) implicit wait. this will create subtle differences in behavior between drivers. it will also create long p…

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    Comment #14861599

    shamless plug: i've also written a high level api on top of the chrome remote debugger chrominator [1] similar idea. chrominator use promises instead of a fluent api. it also follo…

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    Comment #13839476

    this technique is also called pairwise testing[1]. there are some interesting optimization problems around this approach. it can significantly reduce the number of tests while prov…

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    Comment #13590088

    selenium has moveto[1] which will move the mouse to an element. you would use it in an action chain. [1] https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol...

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    Comment #13590026

    > Selenium IDE makes you handle timeouts manually which is a major inconvenience. you can set the implicit wait setting. this will work in most cases but will make the tests slow w…

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    Comment #13352909

    i built chromium headless_shell for ubuntu 16 in the last 3 months to compare it to my phantomjs 2.1.1 build (cookie patch and ghostdriver selenium 2.53 patch). i was disappointed …

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    Comment #13351623

    this is a beta release so you can test those features and provide feedback.

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    Comment #12899678

    what new apis should phantomjs support? download support[1] is the only new api in development. it's not tagged for the 2.5 release[2]. [1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/pull/…

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    Comment #12899588

    it is issue 546953[1] in the chromium issue tracker. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=546953