chsonnu

Boston, MA (South Shore)

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We do on-demand used motorcycle inspections. We're looking for a ruby/sinatra/mysql/jquery dev that also likes getting their hands dirty wrenching on motorcycles.

Questions? ccs@zenwrench.com

Unused road space is staring everyone in the face and only a small percentage of commuters are using it: motorcyclists. If you just took 10% of the cars off the road and had them riding and lane splitting instead, congestion would be reduced exponentially. The good news for Californians is that lane splitting is actually legal unlike every other backwards ass state.

The exercises in the book "7 steps to a pain free life" by Robin McKenzie worked for me. For me the book was worth its weight in gold.

You're about a decade too late. Back when Party Poker and Neteller was around, playing weak tight ala "winning low limit holdem" by lee jones was like printing cash.

If you liked this you may like Asimov's The Last Question: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

The biggest benefit of riding is that you can cut your commute time in half if you're willing to lane split. There's also free parking everywhere if you know where to look. And don't forget you're getting a minimum of 60 MPG if you're riding a non supersport.

Get some QA engineers to manually test every build.

Interesting visualization of Boston's bike sharing program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMBXdKj4iDQ

Are you breastfeeding or just pumping milk? The act of breastfeeding typically soothes and knocks the baby right out.

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The exercises in the book '7 steps to a pain free life' saved my ass:

http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Life-Rapidly-Relieve/d...

Next step should be a ruby DSL to generate CoffeeKup markup!

Hi, what is the benefit of your offerings vs installing openvz on a managed host?

I had a religious friend that would force us all to hold hands and say a prayer. It worked half the time too.

Selenium IDE is a bad road to go down if you're in any type of continuous deployment environment. Your test suite is unmaintainable after a dozen or so cases. What has worked for me is to use WebDriver directly, and to separate the testing and implementation logic. The testing side is driven by standard JUnit fixtures, and the implementation side follows the page object design pattern. Now even with huge changes or "pivots" to the UI, you only have to update a few xpaths and setter/getters in your page objects.

There's more info here: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects

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I either sit on a stool, or on the edge of my seat. For me, using back support just encourages bad posture.

Looks like less engaging 4chan that just happens to have a female demographic.

He's probably suffering from a quarter life crisis. A common thing in generation Y.

What's new? It reminds me of the dog and pony shows with Enron and Goldman. These guys aren't skilled at anything other than pandering to the elderly.

Maybe Watertown is different but every local government I've had to deal with is crawling with luddites.

If you have a dedicated QA group, you can say it will decrease the amount of time QA spends on regression testing.

Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley goes over a couple of these questions and scenarios.

Relearn how to do something "the rails way" when they already know how to do it elegantly in PHP or ruby/sinatra.

For those who prefer using Ruby, try the ruby bindings:

http://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver

Now wrap your tests in RSpec and you're good to go.

No, that's a good idea though. What transpired was SVN use became deprecated, and the entire group had to learn TFS (TEE-CLC).

It's easier than you think if you target organizations with non-technical decision makers. I've seen "directors of software" force LAMP development groups to switch from SVN to TFS.

The record keeping is a double edged sword. Maybe one day institutions will start using your Khan record as a metric for employment/admissions. And that's the day people will start cheating. I guess this means standardized tests like the SATs and GREs aren't going anywhere.