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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014) on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @07:09PM (#7980421)
Boston, MA (South Shore)

ZenWrench - http://www.zenwrench.com

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? [email protected]

Re:Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:39PM (#7966375)
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.
Re:Ask HN: How do you tackle back-pain? on Thursday May 22, 2014 @03:46AM (#7782613)
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.
Re:Ask HN: making a living by playing poker online? on Thursday December 12, 2013 @11:51PM (#6899135)
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.
Re:The Next Ten Billion Years on Friday December 06, 2013 @11:38AM (#6861919)
If you liked this you may like Asimov's The Last Question: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
Re:On Motorcycles and Startups on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:53PM (#5972371)
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.
Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your servers? on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @06:50PM (#5289497)
Chef
Re:Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf] on Monday December 31, 2012 @04:13PM (#4990910)
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...

Re:CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript on Thursday December 27, 2012 @11:26AM (#4973791)
Next step should be a ruby DSL to generate CoffeeKup markup!
Re:$15 Dedicated servers from OVH on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @09:50PM (#4840745)
Hi, what is the benefit of your offerings vs installing openvz on a managed host?
Re:Did Blowing Into The NES Cartridge Really Work? on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:14PM (#4572415)
I had a religious friend that would force us all to hold hands and say a prayer. It worked half the time too.

Ask HN: Do you have business insurance as a freelancer?

I have never been required to have business insurance with past clients but my latest gig has this stipulation in the consulting agreement:"Consultant shall maintain such insurance as is customary in the industry."I personally don't know any 1099 independents with errors and omissions insurance so maybe it's not customary? I'm based out of Boston, MA.

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Re:Automated Web Testing with Selenium IDE on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @11:46AM (#3159052)
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

lubuntu
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.
Re:Ask HN: How can I motivate my talented dev to give a shit? on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @05:36PM (#3023791)
He's probably suffering from a quarter life crisis. A common thing in generation Y.
Re:Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @04:04PM (#3023447)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Travel APIs? on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:35PM (#2993130)
Maybe Watertown is different but every local government I've had to deal with is crawling with luddites.
Re:Why To Write Tests For Your Code on Monday August 29, 2011 @02:00PM (#2938118)
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.
Re:Ask HN: What are the stupid things Rails developers do? on Friday August 05, 2011 @05:44PM (#2851916)
Relearn how to do something "the rails way" when they already know how to do it elegantly in PHP or ruby/sinatra.
Re:Selenium 2.0: Out Now on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:20PM (#2743924)
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.

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