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I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website
- fmoronzirfas 6y agoDid the price rise since yesterday from 250 to 300? HN Tax? Update: Yes it did[0] from 99$ to 300$ in just a few days. Maybe I should book now… [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210206141248/http://www.highqaguy.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210206141248/http://www.highqa...
- alecst 6y agoCool. Do you have samples of your work? Like, ways you've improved websites in the past?
- __s 6y agohttp://www.highqaguy.com http://www.highqaguy.com
- dualthro 6y agoIf this is a joke referencing that the site is down, that's clever. If the site has interesting content, does anyone have a mirror?
- minitoar 6y agoWhen I was able to load it, it was pretty bare bones. It was like “I’ll give you a usability report from a stoner’s perspective for $99”
- viraptor 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20210205233124/http://www.highqaguy.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210205233124/http://www.highqa...
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- aboutDavid 6y agoIt's just Glitch's rate limits for the free plan. It's 4000 requests per hour.
- highqaguy 6y agoNot sure if it has interesting content, but it's back up!
- highqaguy 6y agoNothing formal, yet. I'll try to get some samples on there soon.
- systemvoltage 6y agoI like the straightforwardness of your business. Zero BS.
- highqaguy 6y agoGlad to hear you appreciated that. I figured HN users would.
- EvRev 6y agoYour server stepped out for a bong break
- da_big_ghey 6y agoMaybe it needs some QA! Edit: I just realized that "high QA" meant "on marijuana"... I thought he was referencing particularly good QA or something.
- veidelis 6y agoNah, it's fine. It just needs to keep the fire burning long-term.
- tyingq 6y agoIt would appear it exceeded the tier request limit for glitch.com and/or fly.io Working again, guess somebody made a deposit.
- highqaguy 6y agoI made and posted this idea yesterday, expecting exactly zero attention, so paying for Glitch didn't even cross my mind. It's on a /premium/ plan now, so it's ready for anything.
- highqaguy 6y agoBong break over; we're back. Pretty hungry, though.
- minitoar 6y agoAre you hiring
- Sabinus 6y agoI would also like to know if you are hiring.
- highqaguy 6y agoNot yet. You're second in line to get interviewed if we ever do.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI’m happy to field the drunk QA team. I’ve found so many bugs while drinking and I’d love to just report them instead of trying to fix them. Edit: nevermind I see they covered that first
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- highqaguy 6y agoNot right now, sadly. If we ever do, you'll be the first person I reach out to.
- minitoar 6y agoWow thank you I’m honored
- mettamage 6y agoI feel this is posted as a joke (it might not be), but as a Dutchie, I've seen the following when people were stoned: * Being fully capable of programming C++ (my friend, he's an expert at the language) * Talking about quantum immortality (another friend) * Losing one's English (me) So My feedback to your text: you need to state how the experience is affecting you. I know how it'd affect me, when I'm too stoned I don't even understand what eating is, let alone use a website.
- curtis3389 6y agoI agree. Being stoned is not a consistently hindering state like being drunk is. Drunk QA testing is valuable because alcohol affects things like judgement and motor control.
- highqaguy 6y agoI like this idea. It definitely makes me stupider and miss things I wouldn't have otherwise.
- leetrout 6y agoI’m a sober devops guy if you need help keeping your site up.
- aerovistae 6y agoIf we were on Reddit I would gild this.
- User23 6y agoThis is funny because Google SRE, who are pretty good at devops, are also notorious alcoholics, or at least that's the internal meme. Judging by the prominent liquor displays I'd guess there's some truth to it.
- hinkley 6y agoIf you’re on call 24 hours a day that means you either have to be stone cold sober or a functioning alcoholic. On call arrangements are a really good reason for unionization. Possibly one of the better ones.
- enneff 6y agoNobody in Google SRE is on call for 24 hours. They have teams spread across time zones that rotate through the day. They also get paid more when they’re on call.
- user5994461 6y agoNot every team is spread across the world. Not every team is staffed with enough people to have a sustainable rota.
- enneff 6y agoThat has actually changed somewhat in the past few years, thankfully.
- anthropodie 6y agoyou should create soberdevopsguy.com and put something similar to OP. okes aside, I like how minimalist and straight forward OPs website is. > This is what I can do for you for this much money. You can reach me here.
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- CharlesW 6y agoRelated: "The User is Drunk" (2013) https://youtu.be/r2CbbBLVaPk https://youtu.be/r2CbbBLVaPk "The User is Drunk"-as-a-Service (2015): https://theuserisdrunk.com/ https://theuserisdrunk.com/
- brundolf 6y agoBy the same guy: https://theuserismymom.com/ https://theuserismymom.com/ Edit: Really bizarre that I'm getting downvoted. It's relevant and entertaining supplemental info. Chill out, people.
- kristopolous 6y agoNot having seen this before, I use the term "faucets and toilets" to mean the same thing. It should always work, be boring, obvious to use, and ideally not even be considered technology. If you ask people if they know how it actually works, they should be able to confidently say yes until it comes time to explain it. It means it's so reliable, predicable and dependable that it's viewed almost as a law of nature. It becomes knowable without having to also be known
- CharlesW 6y ago> …I use the term "faucets and toilets" to mean the same thing. It should always work, be boring, obvious to use, and ideally not even be considered technology. I like that, but I think that's something different than expressed by "the user is drink" or "the user is high". Assuming I understand you correctly, "faucets and toilets" is a way of summarizing that UX design should favor popular convention when possible. "The user is drunk/high" is a way of saying that, regardless of the novelty of a particular interaction (not all of which can be faucets/toilets), designers should assume that users will always be more-or-less impaired by the distractions of life.
- kristopolous 6y agoNope. When was the last time you truly focussed on the operations such things? If you focus on a toilet, at least in a conventional setting, there's either something wrong with it or that's your profession. That's one point. If people have to pay attention, it's broken. Such quibbles here are ultimately irrelevant, but your characterization is a misreading.
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- ryanSrich 6y agoIf you could record yourself getting high, and then doing the QA, that'd be worth it. I just want to make sure you're plenty ripped before you start the process.
- highqaguy 6y agoI like this idea. Added it as an option on the site.
- enw 6y agoI remember being stoned out of my mind, trying to grab an Uber back home. I realized how terrible the Uber UI is. There's a shitton of confusing information and buttons competing for attention, all at an equally ambiguous grayish tone. I just want to go home. I was with a friend who was equally high, and we kept laughing at how absurdly bad and confusing the UI is. Eventually the Uber arrived and I got home safe.
- airstrike 6y agoI routinely use the Uber app while entirely sober and have the exact same reaction. It's utterly terrible and I can't imagine what it's like for my parents to use it.
- warent 6y agoI have my phone set to a foreign language to help me learn, and Uber was unusable without translation
- giantDinosaur 6y agoIt seems a bit unfair to expect an app to work without being able to read the language. Was the translation bad or are you just saying that the buttons weren't obvious without a description you could read?
- wpietri 6y agoIs it unfair? I've done this with ATMs before and never had much problem. There are a lot of ways to signal information besides raw text.
- giantDinosaur 6y agoHow do you understand something like 'withdraw, with conversion' or 'withdraw, let your bank handle the conversion', without language? Is there an obvious image or button shape that'd signify this without prior knowledge? Curious, not sure I've seen an instance where this is obvious from any other cue. To expand on this: the mapping between images and other cues to a precise meaning is often actually pretty poor. To correctly navigate using images you often have to have prior knowledge, with the exception of the most downright obvious images or visual cues possible. On the other hand, text can have essentially arbitrary precision (although past a certain point it becomes difficult to parse) - and is thus actually often superior for first-use (or infrequent use) scenarios. The ideal is to have the best communication possible, and while I'm not sure as to the extent that Uber reaches that goal, text being unreadable and the app being unnavigable because you changed the language is, in my view, more on you than on the app developers.
- somerandomqaguy 6y agoAs a random QA guy, I must mention that the cost effectiveness of determining whether a website is usable when high is questionable at best unless we are talking about a snack or pizza ordering website. You're much more likely to have a visitor base that is likely to be intoxicated, and Browsing Under the Influence is still legal. I would thus offer my services as fellow QA to determine website usability while under the heavily intoxicated; client may specify desired level of user intoxication from mildly tipsy to fall over drunk.
- quickthrower2 6y agoAll your need for this is a British QA team and schedule the work for Friday afternoon. Or if in London, any afternoon.
- nickt 6y agoCan confirm.
- acomjean 6y agoMaybe Kozmo didn't fail because of the internet bubble... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
- nickt 6y agoAhh, thanks for the memory - I miss Kozmo! How can it be after almost 20 years we don't have a replacement? (OK I think we know why...)
- daniellarusso 6y agoI recommend the documentary ‘e - Dreams’ about the company. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/ Amazon was an early investor, and they now offer same day delivery in the metro areas Kozmo serviced. Netflix allowed for returning DVDs via pre-paid mailers, instead of dropping them off at Kozmo dropboxes at random local businesses. They also worked with some local eateries to deliver food. I had once ordered a dozen bagels, a Pokemon DVD, and I think a magazine in a single order. I loved the concept and the company. According to the documentary, they were on the path to profitability, but threatened the existing status quo of then incumbent providers.
- cccc4all 6y agoHow is this guy high? If it's pot, aka marajuana, then this is waste of time and money. There are some drugs that can help think outside the box in QA testing, some will not work out at all. Whisky drunk development and QA are time tested processes. Classic xkcd, https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- pugworthy 6y agoThere is a saying that goes, "So easy a child could do it." This is a variation that goes, "So easy a stoned user can use it" Also, there is the term "Child proof" for things that are hard to break or inadvertently misuse. A stoned user can test for "Stoner proof", which is conceptually similar perhaps. Take the case of user input validation. It's not uncommon for systems or UX without validation to break when someone does something that just makes no sense. A stoned user is perhaps a fairly effective chaos monkey (google it) for testing in this case. As an example, many (I mean many) years ago I found an online ordering site for wine that would allow you to enter negative numbers for quantity to ship. You could fill your cart with wine, then throw in -20 orders of some other wine and basically null out your order - or turn it into a refund. It also had you look up the shipping costs from an on-page table, and type it in. You could of course, type in negative shipping cost which it gladly added to your total.
- cccc4all 6y agoSounds like usability instead of QA. QA is orderly process of utilizing techniques to create instability in stable systems. Everything has a breaking point. QA is finding out if the breaking point is above specified threshold or not. QA knows anything can be broken at some point. The job of QA is to verify that it meets specified criteria under certain stress conditions and document them. QA is more than randomly pushing buttons hoping to pop open the box.
- motohagiography 6y agoGenius. We used to call this an interactive agency. 'echo "fiverr for the impaired" | mail apply@ycombinator.com'
- 6510 6y agoIt was like... "This project has received too many requests, please try again later." For such a dull website (it worked 5 min ago) this shouldn't even be possible. edit: The error message is barely shorter than the burned up site?
- MetalGuru 6y agoQA your site. It’s breaking under the load
- highqaguy 6y agoFixed. That's 1 broken website fixed thanks to my services.
- mkoryak 6y agoI own programmingdrunk.com and will sell it to you if this post has inspired you to start a new business!
- ARandomerDude 6y agoIrony: > This project has received too many requests, please try again later.
- highqaguy 6y agoI didn't expect more than 10 people to see this website, to be honest. Should be back now!
- jfmercer 6y agoThis is the best thing I've seen on HN in a long, long time.
- highqaguy 6y agoThat's so sweet. Thank you.
- egfx 6y agoI worked at Blizzard and there was a joke that we didn’t have drug testing because we would lose the design team and half the QA testers. In gaming QA getting high is kind of a prerequisite.
- taf2 6y agoThat totally explains the general chat in Starcraft 2 - thanks
- Ancapistani 6y agoThis has been the case at every “startup” or “tech” company where I’ve worked. Even the “enterprise” company where I worked for almost a decade had noticeably low “random” drug testing for IT. “Low” meaning “I didn’t see or hear of it happening unless someone was obviously out of their minds at work the entire time I was there.”
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoI’ve never heard of it happening. Can someone chime in here if your tech company drug screened the engineers?
- nxc18 6y agoI interned at a securities finance company that did drug testing at some point. There were lots of management changes, so the random screen may have been an MBA/finance type who didn’t get it. Notable quality engineers who failed their tests were retained, so I imagine they must have seen the error in their ways. They did have drug screening as part of the application process. I imagine they lost a lot of quality applicants. I only persisted because I was one of those annoying self-righteous tea totalers at the time.
- bena 6y agoTeetotaler, it's a weird enough word you speak more often than write.
- edoceo 6y agoHahaha. So, yea. One project I work on in the cannabis space specifically marketed as "easy to use when stoned". Way the F back in the dot-com days we would go on about "the users are drunk". Are they high? Are they drunk? Neither! It's both.
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- pryelluw 6y agoStoner as a Service? Anyhow, I do find this useful and will give it a try. Wish the page would have more info as to what is included in the report. Also, how high the person was.
- highqaguy 6y agoUpdating soon, thanks for the feedback. If you sent an email yesterday, you may need to resend. This very high guy mis-configured his email settings.
- fra 6y agoThis is too cheap! When I see the $99 price tag I think "how much testing will this guy really do?". Double or triple it.
- abiogenesis 6y agoThe marijuana purchasing power of USD is not the same in every country.
- highqaguy 6y agoGood suggestion. Averaged out your suggestion, trying $250.
- fra 6y agoHow did raising the prices work out?
- grogenaut 6y agoI used to playtest the games I worked on blitzed... I found so many issues with them that way. I soft locked the first level of halo 2 that way (after release). My coworker, Jaime Griesemer, did the controls for the warthog when he worked on halo. He told me he tested passing driving the vehicle with the controller upside down on hard, and using his tongue on easy. His goal was the controls were good enough his grandmother could beat the mission on easy.
- pgt 6y agoWe did this in 2009, called it “The High Test”: http://petrustheron.com/posts/the-high-usability-test.html http://petrustheron.com/posts/the-high-usability-test.html What is the high test? 1. Find a stoner buddy who is high and drunk. 2. Instruct them to use your service. 3. Shut up and listen to them shouting questions at you. Eliminate your inebriated testers' questions and your service will be a dream to use for sober users.
- highqaguy 6y agoThis is cool. How'd it turn out? Did any companies make changes based on the suggestions?
- ncmncm 6y agoWhen I saw the title I immediately flashed on Beavis and Butthead: "I am Cornholio! ..."
- platz 6y agothis is almost as good as the tacocopter
- tempodox 6y agoIf you take QA seriously, the QA process itself has to be tightly controlled. How can you do that without knowing exactly how high you are? So, new startup idea: Coming up with a reliable metric for Highness (ignoring nobility) and offering a test kit. Any investors?
- shlant 6y agoit's not the most objective grading system, but it's something! https://imgur.com/KJDyvbz https://imgur.com/KJDyvbz
- highqaguy 6y agoI see a partnership on the horizon.
- tempodox 6y agoAgreed. Once we've nailed metric and test kit we could expand our services to offer precise reproduction of Highness levels. Highness-on-Demand or Highness-as-a-Service could become indispensable supply chain elements for serious QA setups.
- asdff 6y agoThe QA tester ought to be using a dab rig with the same amount of shatter at the same time before testing to rule out any variance in quantity or potency between unit tests
- xondono 6y agoYou could also tweet your site to Elon Musk for free
- ExcavateGrandMa 6y agosounds like a paid scam :Ð You don't even know what you could expect behind ... it's like being a women going to a car garage :Ð
- zelphirkalt 6y agoIf it is not a scam, I like it. Simple and clear, site usable without JS involved, to display a simple information, which is: "I am offering this. Call out if you want what I offer." Out. I hope this is working out for the person(s?) behind it. No asocial media stuff I need to sign up to, or other wall I need to climb over, to be able to use the service.
- highqaguy 6y agoThank you so much. Happy to hear you appreciated the straightforward approach. I'm so tired of signing up for services, managing passwords, and having buggy experiences.
- zelphirkalt 6y agoTried to send you an e-mail, but it failed to deliver. I think something is up. Can you check your e-mail service?
- highqaguy 6y agoCan you try again? I did have some issues, but it should be back online now. If not, feel free to reach out to @HighQAGuy on Twitter.
- yawaworht1978 6y agoThe UI of US real estate websites horribly invasive and inefficient compared to European sites. They ask you to sign up or sign in via I auth for a simple property lookup. They prompt you to enter preferences then reload or ajax refresh the page. This is ridiculous, just offer a proper query filter and leave the user alone. I understand, the agencies want to push the data into some crm and follow up with retargeting etc. The victim is the user experience. Letting the potential buyer/renter view the properties without obstacles is certainly the better approach than retargeting after pissing them off.