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Acceptance and Integration Testing With Kookaburra (Ruby: Cucumber+Capybara)(johnwilger.com)
1 points by geeksam 15y ago|0 comments
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by geeksam 15y ago
You know about AckMate, right? It's indispensable. (No find/replace, but on the upside, it's ridiculously fast.)
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by geeksam 15y ago
I'm loving the documentation: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/yaf-loader.clearlocalnamespace....
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by geeksam 15y ago
Sweet! I'll add that to the resources page.
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by geeksam 15y ago
Site author here. I welcome all feedback on the site! [There's more I'd love to write, but I found I was losing motivation to work on it in my Copious Spare Time(tm), so I thought I'd try promoting it -- knowing that others are paying atte
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Show HN: Think Like (a) Git, a quasi-tutorial(think-like-a-git.net)
54 points by geeksam 15y ago|8 comments
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by geeksam 15y ago
I make daily use of GitX for visualizing the state of a repo, and it's got a pretty nice UI for building commits as well. (It's Mac-only, though.) Apparently there are several forks that have added new functionality on top of the version
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by geeksam 15y ago
I've struggled with helping others learn git as well; you can see some of my thinking at ( http://think-like-a-git.heroku.com/#1 ) and ( http://confreaks.net/videos/612-cascadiaruby2011-think-like-... ). Currently working on a longish stan
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by geeksam 15y ago
For those who enjoyed this talk, Corey Donohoe gave an awesome presentation at Cascadia RubyConf that goes into more detail about what they use Hubot for, and also mentions deploying branches to a subset of their boxes. It was one of the b
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by geeksam 15y ago
There seem to be enough of them to clog up I-5 on a daily basis.
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by geeksam 15y ago
"Your honor, did you see the way she was dressed? She was clearly asking for it." [Tags: sarcasm (if that weren't immediately obvious)]
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by geeksam 15y ago
I moved to Portland from California in 2001. I love it here, and can't imagine ever moving back. That being said, the big adjustment for me (and for many folks moving from further south) isn't the rain. It's that the days are so much sho
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by geeksam 15y ago
Also, this appears to suffer from what I like to call the "Razor-blade Singularity" fallacy: http://www.economist.com/node/5624861?story_id=5624861
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by geeksam 15y ago
Effort per interaction will only be zero when interactions require no cognitive overhead. In which case, why are we bothering with them?
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by geeksam 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by geeksam 15y ago
There's also hackerbuddy.com, which exists to pair up wannabe hackers with wannabe mentors. Might not help you find someone local, though. For that, user groups are the way to go. Looks like there's an SF Python Meetup group that meets s
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by geeksam 15y ago
The last such place I worked was in a relay service call center. It was right smack in the middle of your retail/food service to office/cubicle continuum. But yes, "organization" would work nicely for both. Also: "team".
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by geeksam 16y ago
I hadn't heard of "gem server" until you mentioned it.
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by geeksam 16y ago
How is it not HN material? This reminds me of the 2006 Malcolm Gladwell piece about "Million Dollar Murray" that showed up here last summer ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582582 ). Both stories pose a problem that has a well-k
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by geeksam 16y ago
Is there a correlation between "quality of work" and "hours [...] put in"?
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by geeksam 16y ago
If I had more upvotes, I'd give them to this statement. However, I'd be surprised if there weren't a nontrivial number of Rails developers who totally identify with that. The service is laughably simplistic for my day-job environment, but i
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by geeksam 16y ago
Never mind that demographic -- I'm a web developer, and I typed in the .com version when I tried to view the site on my iPhone. Doh! (And then the page load took 20+ seconds -- iPhone 4 on wifi -- and I stopped looking entirely.)
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by geeksam 16y ago
With the exception that this is supposed to be, y'know, fun.
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by geeksam 16y ago
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work in most input controls, and definitely work in the terminal.
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by geeksam 16y ago
That's an awfully bi chip on your shoulder. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) My gender and orientation is irrelevant to the argument, as are yours. I agree that scholarships for women would help, but I'm curious -- why is subsidizing stu
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by geeksam 16y ago
From the above link: "According to the terms of the bequest, at least fifty percent of the awards go to Roman Catholic colleges or universities." Oddly, I have yet to see anyone here with his boxers in a twist over the religious discrimina
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by geeksam 16y ago
From _The Princess Bride_: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." From Wikipedia: "Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century, is the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to, less
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by geeksam 16y ago
Really, ezmobius nailed it. I feel compelled to chime in on Baby Stuff, though. (You don't need as much as you think you need, but a few things were really great.) I emailed a friend with some advice on items we found useful (and a few th
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by geeksam 16y ago
+1 for the Happiest Baby on the Block. We borrowed the DVD from somewhere, and it was great. Simple and repetitive, too, which makes it great for parents of newborns.
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by geeksam 16y ago
+1 million on sleep being the biggest issue you'll face. My daughter just turned 2(!) and she's been sleeping 9-10 hours a night for a good long while now, but it took about a year and a half for my IQ to get back up to something approachi

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