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by scorchin 16y ago
Despite not knowing much Perl, seeing Given/When being used as executable code is beautiful. It's almost like someone took Gherkin (the Cucumber BDD parser) and got it working inline.
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by scorchin 16y ago
It's just like a massive computer magazine shareware cover disk.
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by scorchin 16y ago
Questions for the Lanyrd team (Simon & Natalie): 1. Do organisers contact the "tracking" members when it's getting nearer to the date of the event? 2. What's the breakdown between attending vs. tracking? Do these change over time?
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by scorchin 16y ago
A good starting resource here: http://boagworld.com/design/when-developers-design/
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by scorchin 16y ago
A key part of this is that you should start with the MVP[1]. Get the (minimal) features together that make your app work and release it. Then follow a user-centred design (UCD) process by testing it on real people! Iterate early. I'd be mor
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by scorchin 16y ago
I'd recommend checking out http://streak.ly/ for this. It's another webapp from the folks from http://forrst.com/
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by scorchin 16y ago
At a micro-level, you can reduce the time you spend on HN by blocking it for periods of time. pg has added a noprocast option in your profile which you can turn on. It's set by the maxvisit and minaway fields (not sure about naming he
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)
170 points by scorchin 16y ago|158 comments
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by scorchin 16y ago
I would say that Google searches for programming languages would be a little better as a benchmark. As it denotes the number of new users trying to learn a language (demand). Google Trends for (some) functional languages: http://www.google
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by scorchin 16y ago
It was the late 90's and I started learning PHP3 and HTML. Then soon enough I started reading about BASIC, C, Unix, Linux...
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by scorchin 16y ago
Please post the original links, instead of this link-bait. Original: http://vimeo.com/17091905
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by scorchin 16y ago
Worth stating that this update does not currently work with the virtualbox gem, and thus is incompatible with vagrant.
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by scorchin 16y ago
How has nobody compared this to the FitFinder yet? It was clearly better executed than this is and had gained traction in the UK. The only reason it was shutdown was because the founder was told he would be fined heavily and wouldn't receiv
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by scorchin 16y ago
Another great write-up! As a side note, I missed your juggling talk at the recent HN London meetup. Is there a video available for it?
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by scorchin 16y ago
"I" (11 times) followed closely by "F" and "H" (both 9 times) seem to the most common letters.
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Amazon Window Shop(windowshop.com)
1 points by scorchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by scorchin 16y ago
"everything I do can be undone, reset, restarted, or otherwise restored" This is so key. Software companies in general need to emphasise this so that builds are easy, CI is a given and continuous deploys are a no-brainer.
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)
179 points by scorchin 16y ago|162 comments
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An interview with Craig Hockenberry: The Setup(craig.hockenberry.usesthis.com)
1 points by scorchin 16y ago|0 comments
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The University of Washington, Dropping Out, Waste of Time, Confusion, Etc.(ariannaodell.wordpress.com)
2 points by scorchin 16y ago|0 comments
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Shut Up And Ship – Mixergy interview with Sahil Lavingia(mixergy.com)
12 points by scorchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by scorchin 16y ago
http://xfd.build-doctor.com/
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Ask HN: Your tips/hacks for great academic writing
41 points by scorchin 16y ago|23 comments
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Ask HN: How do you back-up your pictures when abroad without a laptop?
1 points by scorchin 16y ago|1 comments
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by scorchin 16y ago
Is that "Alchemist" or "The Alchemist"? I'm trying to find it on Amazon.
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by scorchin 16y ago
Did nobody else see the flaw in this? The GitHub forks are public. If you wanted to, you could just look through ~30 forks and see what their commits/code look like. It would be fairly easy to find the "best" solution and work from there. F
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by scorchin 16y ago
I'll be there, probably a little earlier, around 5pm. Will have a "Hacker's Delight" book on me, which should be a pretty good sign. ;)
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by scorchin 16y ago
They're advertised as local posts here on HN. Here's the link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1434964 Sorry for the delay, hope I've given you enough time to sort out travel arrangements.
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by scorchin 16y ago
Yes, I believe it's open to anyone. See the previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1434964
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by scorchin 16y ago
What's everyone's experience of Chef vs. Puppet? I've just started learning Puppet and I'm wondering how much of a benefit Chef would be in conjunction with Puppet.

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