jfrisby

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by jfrisby 13y ago
As someone who's spent some 17 years doing almost nothing but startups, allow me to add my $0.0296 ($0.02, adjusted for inflation1) Some combination of #1, #4, and #6. #6 is the one where you don't truly respect the process of man
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by jfrisby 13y ago
Because the group not being demonized are mostly comprised of people who are trying their best but in circumstances that make it impossible to live up to their obligations and the group being demonized are mostly comprised of people who
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by jfrisby 13y ago
Stop and think about this for a second: If someone intends to not pay , abusive language isn't going to change their minds. If someone cannot pay, then abusive language has no value either because, well, they cannot pay . The only
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by jfrisby 13y ago
"more aggressive"? So you feel bullying and abusive tactics are justifiable means of collecting a debt. That's pretty fucked up.
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by jfrisby 13y ago
... except the collection agencies -- but good riddance to them.
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by jfrisby 13y ago
And my point is that the default behavior of both collectors -- the behavior from the very first word of their first call -- was in violation, and they continued to violate the law in numerous ways. If an entire industry is so systematica
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by jfrisby 13y ago
I've faced two situations involving collectors: In one, I had forgotten to pay a bill in a timely manner. In the other, the bill was BS and the former landlord who sent it to collections was breaking a number of related laws (such as
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by jfrisby 13y ago
An alternative to the insurance model is to implement something like SSS ("Shamir's Secret Sharing")...
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by jfrisby 13y ago
> The state exists only in your application, not in the test. > Your given sets up the environment in the way you want, the > "when" manipulates the environment and the "then" checks > that the environment ex
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by jfrisby 13y ago
To use your example -- how desirable is it to generalize "I change my name" to something "reusable"? I'm finding these days that a pairing of .feature to corresponding step definition file allows for fluid language,
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by jfrisby 13y ago
So your example still requires that state exist, it's just far more global. I.E. there must be some prerequisite code that sets up the thing to which "I" refers such that it's available to any step at any time. There m
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by jfrisby 13y ago
I don't quite get how any when/then could NOT be dependent upon previous givens. Also, despite the job-centric nature of the .feature, it wasn't timing-dependent because we mocked Resque to keep an in-process queue that we co
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An Unusual Case for Cucumber(mrjoy.com)
15 points by jfrisby 13y ago|10 comments
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by jfrisby 15y ago
That's precisely how we look at it internally -- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. We speak in terms of "the cloud", as coarse and imprecise a term as it is, because that's what a lot of the people we're trying to reach are thinking in terms of and lo
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by jfrisby 15y ago
One Tool to Rule them All would be nice, but at the moment we're focusing on a fairly specific niche to address real problems we've personally encountered at companies. We're not the only ones who've had these sorts of problems either: ht
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by jfrisby 15y ago
It depends on who you're circumventing. If you're making an end-run around an obstinate IT department -- a situation we've seen a lot of -- then this is precisely the sort of tool that finance would want to help bring things back into the
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by jfrisby 16y ago
It's amazing how quickly cloud costs can get out of hand with ephemeral dev servers, sloppy application code, and the like. At one job, I found a bad query that was costing us ~$112k/yr in excess EC2 costs and nobody had noticed the impact