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by smathieu 7mo ago
Tangible Materials | AI Engineer | Remote (US/Canada) | Full-time | $140k - $160k USD + equity at seed startup. Tangible Materials helps the construction industry to make better decisions around building materials. This means using les
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by smathieu 8mo ago
Tangible Materials | Senior Engineers | Remove US/Canada | Full-time We're building a fully automated agentic platform to help the construction industry optimize takeoffs, make better design decisions and reduce carbon emissions r
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by smathieu 10y ago
Montreal is the 19th largest metropolitan area in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo... It's also very close to the American North East for data transfer...
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by smathieu 11y ago
There's no reason why you can't have Heroku to connect to a RDS instance or a DB you manage yourself. It's not has easy as using the Heroku way, but not very difficult either.
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by smathieu 12y ago
When I was an intern at a large fortune 500 company, in the first week, my manager had me schedule a 30 minute meeting with the 20 or so people I'd have to interact with during my internship. This was pretty awkward at first to walk up
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Ask HN: Who was your favorite manager and why?
8 points by smathieu 12y ago|8 comments
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by smathieu 12y ago
The browserstack website is currently down for me. Anyone else?
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Test your JavaScript with Jasmine(blog.rainforestqa.com)
6 points by smathieu 12y ago|0 comments
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by smathieu 12y ago
I'm the author of this post. Happy to answer any questions you might have :)
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by smathieu 12y ago
toe_tag is really cool. We've clearly have some code and catches an exception, look for a string the message and rethrows it when needed. I'll use your gem next time I find myself doing that :)
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by smathieu 12y ago
Original gem author here! We were scratching out own itch by doing this. This is currently used by several of our projects. It does feel like the HTTP libraries should be better and handling these various exceptions. Since they don't,
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What is CI and why use it?(blog.rainforestqa.com)
55 points by smathieu 12y ago|45 comments
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Deployment Academy: What are environments for?(blog.rainforestqa.com)
12 points by smathieu 12y ago|2 comments
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by smathieu 12y ago
Another good thing about this is that if you have CI setup to work with Github, you can also run all of your test suite quickly and asynchronously for each commit.
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by smathieu 12y ago
I think the point was mostly that 'lol' or 'meh' is a completely useless comment. It's true that there's a lot of room for improvements in the given example. Still, they do provide some context to people who ac
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by smathieu 12y ago
Although many of these tips might seem trivial and obvious, I've often seem developer who self-identified as 'senior' not follow these practices. Git and Github are communication channels and you should think about effectivel
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by smathieu 12y ago
Heroku is effectively down if your application uses the Heroku API for auto-scaling. It probably means that only larger applications are affected.
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by smathieu 12y ago
Bitcasa ( https://www.bitcasa.com/ ) also solves that problems by streaming your files on demand.
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by smathieu 12y ago
I did not know job `gj` and `gk` for line navigation. That will definitely be useful!
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by smathieu 12y ago
Although I write all of my code in Vim, I have always found it to not be great environment for text. The main annoyance comes from dealing with long lines or automatic line wrapping that never seems to do what I want it to. Does anyone have
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by smathieu 13y ago
The idea is that you could have a remote coworker or a QA use your dev server to test things, review UI, etc.
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Vagrant Share(vagrantup.com)
230 points by smathieu 13y ago|46 comments
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Extreme dogfooding(blog.rainforestqa.com)
57 points by smathieu 13y ago|28 comments
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by smathieu 13y ago
I love it! It's a perfect example of what makes Stripe a great company. This feature is in no way necessary, it's just icing on the cake. I wish more companies would address API usability issue like Stripe does.
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by smathieu 13y ago
Before meteor kills Rails, it should really fix the offline mode :) Blog try to refresh after HN traffic killed the backend.
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by smathieu 13y ago
As far as security is concerned, I'm much more worried about ISPs providing WiFi routers that uses WEP encryption AS A DEFAULT. For those who don't know, WEP can be hacked in a matter of minutes with no technical knowledge require
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by smathieu 13y ago
I have been doing a lot of phone screens for our company lately. We ask a FizzBuzz like question in our first phone screen. So far, only 30% of applicants manage to go pass this point. It's actually quite hard to believe. Guys who clai
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by smathieu 13y ago
+1 for copperegg. Their free plan is much better than uptimerobot. My only comment is that their UI is not overly intuitive, but you don't really have to look at it after you've set it up.
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by smathieu 13y ago
I've tried contributing to it, but several factors makes it really hard. They includes: - Poor documentation - Broken build scripts for some of the open source version - Lack of support on forum/IRC - Project still uses
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Achieving fast deploys for a large Rails app(blog.pagerduty.com)
6 points by smathieu 14y ago|1 comments

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