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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I'm the author. I choose the example story because it featured in a famous blog post called "You're Cuking It Wrong", a post ubiquitously referenced throughout the Rails community as an example of how to use Cucumber correctly. My point is
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The Make-Believe Analyst and the Six Costs of Testing With Cucumber(jackkinsella.ie)
23 points by jackkinsella 15y ago|4 comments
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I sell revision notes from college students at http://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk . One module, £25. I started the project by selling my old law notes from Oxford law school online, and, after a lot of work, the project makes enough money to m
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I'm the sole founder of Oxbridge Notes, http://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk . I describe my job as "hacker, founder and janitor". I do it all - graphic design, programming, server administration, customer service, seo and online marketing. As
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback; I've just made the improvements. The gg G mixup was a nasty little typo.
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
If you suggest improvements here I will make the modifications. I just changed :saveas filename to :w filename OS-agnostic methods are outside the scope of the guide, which is only intended for those coming from Textmate, implying that they
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
You're right; the red was too loud. I changed the background to a light purple and switched to plain black text. Do you find it easier to read?
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I'm happy to modify it if you can suggest improvements. I don't have the greatest eye for design.
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
VIM defender rushing in. I wrote a post which translates 100 Textmate features into VIM, and vice-versa. In particular, I included a section on getting used to the NERDTree. http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/05/textmate-to-vim.html
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Textmate To Vim: 100 Textmate keyboard shortcuts translated to VIM(jackkinsella.ie)
47 points by jackkinsella 15y ago|15 comments
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime Minimal electronic album that places you into a rhythmic trance, yet doesn't distract your attention away from the task at hand.
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I've just put up a consulting website. Although some pages are still blank, the website should be finished by 6 September. http://www.jackkinsella.ie/about.html
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
SEEKING WORK (Freelance only) – London, UK I’m an Oxford graduate moving to London (from Ireland) in three weeks. I offer full stack web development using Ruby/Rails and help with online marketing (SEO, conversion optimisation, Adwords, Fac
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Rails Users: Should Mass Assignment Security Happen In The Model?(jonathanleighton.com)
2 points by jackkinsella 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
Preventative customer support. Your goal should be to minimize your customer support requirements. For the past two years I've treated every customer inquiry to my business as a bug requiring a fix. If someone asks me for additional informa
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Extended Guide To Punctuation(informatics.sussex.ac.uk)
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I stayed focused by: 1) Frequently switching revision activities between writing sample answers, creating cheat sheets, drawing mind maps, cramming and participating in group study sessions. 2) Working out for half an hour every day. Kept e
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
For ideas on getting started visit http://rails-bestpractices . That being said the only way to really understand best practices is to build a large app, with users and a live DB, then try maintaining it over time. Only then will you see h
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I like to organize my information using Anki [1], a spaced reptition system. Anki lets you input information as single flash cards - a question and an answer, and then tag that card by topic(s). Breaking topics down into questions and answe
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I prefer to learn from reading code examples and so I found a freely available online book called jQuery Fundamentals (Rebecca Murphey) helpful. Although it's focus is on jQuery, the introduction to Javascript is second to none: http://jqf
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
Scott Adams is a generalist in a set of very distant disciplines. The difference between art talent, writing skills and a sense of humour is far greater than the difference between Java, C and Ruby. I'd say learn one programming language an
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by jackkinsella 15y ago
I didn't make this very clear in the original post (which I will edit now), but the photos they want to scrape are the manufacturer's photos, i.e. those licensed for use by resellers. Scraping them would shortcut approaching the manufacture
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Ask HN: Legality of scraping manufacturer's photos from another website
2 points by jackkinsella 15y ago|3 comments
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
I've done some further research and found: 1) Have quantifiable goals - e.g. give 20 elevator pitches/day & get business cards. 2) Follow the conference hashtag on Twitter and tweet during and after the conference to gain exposure. 3) A
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
I'm both. I'm a single (tech & non tech) founder of my company. I'll need to freelance in the summer as my business is seasonal. I'm looking for ways to make the right impression to both possible employers and possible co-founder. I'm a
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
That's not exactly helpful. I wouldn't have expected that kind of sarcasm on Hacker News. There is an art and science to networking effectively and the point of my question was to tap into the collective knowledge of this forum for help.
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Ask HN: How to network effectively at conferences?
8 points by jackkinsella 16y ago|15 comments
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
What matters is the bottom line of your business, not your conversion rates in and of themselves. Let me give you an example: Charles sells financial services and a conversion for him is worth $4000 dollars on average. Paying $100 per conve
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
I'd automate everything if given enough time. To me it's the essence of running an efficient business (and indeed scaling). Some examples: 1) I automated the creation of Google Adwords CPC keywords for my ecommerce website. Based on attribu
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by jackkinsella 16y ago
Congratulations, sounds like you got the success you deserved for putting in such careful forethought. Thanks a million for sharing this marketing technique!

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