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These are the Kickstarter Engineering and Data role definitions for both teams.

Technical	Data	People
Junior Software Engineer
Software Engineer	Data Analyst
Senior Software Engineer	Data Scientist	Engineering Manager
Staff Engineer	VP of Data	Engineering Director
Principal Engineer		CTO

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2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.

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Using Exceptions to manage control flow in Rails Controllers

This is an example from the blog post: http://www.ngauthier.com/2011/09/using-exceptions-to-manage-control-flow.html.

Please fork it and show me what you would do!

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# ec2 ami-1515f67c
sudo sed -i 's/universe/multiverse universe/' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ruby ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8 rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert rubygems git-core rake librspec-ruby libxml-ruby thin couchdb
sudo gem sources -a http://gems.opscode.com
sudo gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org # for nanite
sudo gem install cucumber merb-core nanite jeweler uuidtools json --no-ri --no-rdoc
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone git://github.com/opscode/chef.git

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require 'spec/expectations'
require 'rack/test'
require 'webrat'

Webrat.configure do |config|
  config.mode = :rack
end

class MyAppTest
  include Rack::Test::Methods

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# COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
#
# How would you test this Quiz#problem method? Only two rules:
#
# 1. No mocks or stubs allowed. I'm looking for a other alternatives.
# Mocks can get messy in complex scenarios, and this is intended to
# be a high level test which executes all code. I don't think mocking
# would be a very clean solution anyway, but if you want to try it
# and prove me wrong feel free.
#

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'benchmark'
require 'rubygems'
require 'markaby'
require 'tagz'
require 'builder'
require 'nokogiri'

max = (ARGV.shift || 10_000).to_i

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Fork you

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tell me again why we need another one of these? was pastie not working well enough for you guys?

** okay, now i see... fork and versioned pasties. kinda neat. **