>I'd recommend coding the tests instead of using the IDE, much less frustrating.
The advantage of visual/screenshot-driven automation tools like Screenster.io or Kantu.io is twofold:
1. It allows non-developers to join the testing team and create automated web tests.
2. Even if you are a developer by training, tools like NW.js or PhantomJS still have a significant learning curve. I argue that developer time is typically better spend on the product than on coding complex test cases.
As the author of that article about Selenium IDE alternatives, exactly!
I mean, if you want to do end-to-end UI testing, you'd probably want manual testers to cover a huge part of the routine. And tools like Screenster help you automate the process and use it for UI regression testing.
I've been using Firefox continuously as my only browser since it was in beta and called Phoenix. This has never been even remotely true, at least on my experience.
To carry on with your anecdotal evidence, I'm going to disagree and say that yes, there was a time where firefox was just dog slow to open - on all 3 of the PCs I owned at the time, two using only 2-3 extensions and one using none. If there wasn't, I never would have switched to chrome.
As I understand the subtitles are usually licensed from different people than the producers of the shows, so yes it is probably licensing issues too.
As an example on Netflix Italy you can watch Lie To Me with Italian or English audio, but the subtitles are only available in Italian. If you switch to a UK proxy you get English subtitles...
In Taiwan and China people are willing to spend near US$1000 for an Apple smart phone, so $3000-$4000 for a cool 'Apple' E-Scooter still sounds attractive to me. Unlike a car, you can park this thing directly in front of the stores, so everyone can see it/has to climb over it ;-)
I am not their target market, but next time I am in Taiwan I would rent this scooter, even at double/triple the cost of a regular one. I actually wanted to rent an e-scooter before, but everyone advised against it: "Too slow"
So for me the key question is: Does Gogoro feel like a real scooter, even with two people on it? Does it do to e-scooters what Tesla did for e-cars?
They are advertising faster speeds, but propably not Tesla like (16% faster than ICE scooters).
And that's basically the only point they raise on their advertisement webpage. They show you some of the special & cool features (suspension, drivetrain,...) but every single one is very propably too expensive and there are much cheaper components to aquire on the market. E.g. the water-cooled engine with planetary gear looks super expensive. They absolutely need massive economies of scale or they will fail. And I don't see the appeal of this scooter. There is no reason to pay double what a cheap one costs. I don't think you can compare an Apple phone with a scooter (style vs utility).
Xiaomi is eating a lot of Apple's marketshare. And a smartphone is almost a requirement, while having some nice e-scooter would be _nice_ but probably not on everyone's affordable list.
But even so, Apple is Apple, which has spent a lot of money into marketing/advertising their product and has a huge loyal following.
I too am interested in trying this out when I visit Taiwan next, but I just don't see a lot of people who want to line up and pay 2x the cost for an e-scooter. Also while their hardware/software integration are well beyond what gas scooters can do, but its look isn't that much better.
(Personally I am also wary of their vendor lock-in with the chargestations)
Taiwan is HTC country. iPhone is a foreign status symbol. A scooter is just "something everyone has". There are more registered scooters in Taiwan than people!
I showed my friends here (Kaohsiung) the Gogoro scooter a few months ago, and they said they would never buy it. Their reasoning was exactly as the grandparent comment said: there are cheaper alternatives. They said it's also ingrained into the culture to go for the best deal even if something which costs slightly more is much better.
I was about the make the same comment. There are plenty of other tech centers around the world, although SF is one of the better ones. Berlin and London are also pretty good and vibrant. You may also try to look at the 2nd tier tech cities in Spanish speaking countries such as Barcelona may be another option.
In addition, an important part of Aldi's recent success in Germany is that they do not compromise on quality. Often their products (say olive oil, toilet paper,...) win/score at the top of consumer reports. They have a great brand image (much better than Lidl).
That depends on which part of Germany you're in. There are two Aldi chains in Germany, run by brothers. South Aldis are great. North Aldis are understocked, dirty and generally don't provide a great experience.
Who do these experts report to? The individual parlamentarian (who is supposed to be independent), or the individual parties, or the governing coalition, or unknown third parties?
People can read on their own that it is about the BSI, contrary to your propaganda. Go back to the Spiegel or Zeit forums, where Russian trolls usually spend their time.
With iMacros (for Chrome or Firefox) you can automate for example the login to websites. Maybe that can be part of your setup. Our use AutoHotkey (AHK) to automate Windows as a whole.
The advantage of visual/screenshot-driven automation tools like Screenster.io or Kantu.io is twofold:
1. It allows non-developers to join the testing team and create automated web tests.
2. Even if you are a developer by training, tools like NW.js or PhantomJS still have a significant learning curve. I argue that developer time is typically better spend on the product than on coding complex test cases.