I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.
- AngelList (startups)
- Authentic Jobs
- Craigslist (mostly freelance)
- Digital DUMBO (NYC-specific)
- Github
- Idealist (social good)
var DateHelper = { | |
// Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time | |
// Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT | |
time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) { | |
var date = new Date; | |
date.setTime(Date.parse(from)); | |
return this.time_ago_in_words(date); | |
}, | |
time_ago_in_words: function(from) { |
=Navigating= | |
visit('/projects') | |
visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
=Clicking links and buttons= | |
click_link('id-of-link') | |
click_link('Link Text') | |
click_button('Save') | |
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
click('Button Value') |
# These are my notes from the PragProg book on CoffeeScript of things that either | |
# aren't in the main CS language reference or I didn't pick them up there. I wrote | |
# them down before I forgot, and put it here for others but mainly as a reference for | |
# myself. | |
# assign arguments in constructor to properties of the same name: | |
class Thingie | |
constructor: (@name, @url) -> | |
# is the same as: |
#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import os | |
import re | |
import subprocess | |
import sys | |
modified = re.compile('^[MA]\s+(?P<name>.*)$') | |
CHECKS = [ |
# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*- | |
set :assets_dependencies, %w(app/assets lib/assets vendor/assets Gemfile.lock config/routes.rb) | |
namespace :deploy do | |
namespace :assets do | |
desc <<-DESC | |
Run the asset precompilation rake task. You can specify the full path \ | |
to the rake executable by setting the rake variable. You can also \ |
-- show running queries (pre 9.2) | |
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query | |
FROM pg_stat_activity | |
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' | |
ORDER BY query_start desc; | |
-- show running queries (9.2) | |
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query | |
FROM pg_stat_activity | |
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' |
def repair_empty_param_associations | |
params.keys.each do |key| | |
repair_nested_params(params, key, params[key]) | |
end | |
end | |
private | |
def repair_nested_params(current_params, key, value) | |
if key =~ /^(.*)_attributes$/ && value.nil? |
Here is a list of scopes to use in Sublime Text 2 snippets - | |
ActionScript: source.actionscript.2 | |
AppleScript: source.applescript | |
ASP: source.asp | |
Batch FIle: source.dosbatch | |
C#: source.cs | |
C++: source.c++ | |
Clojure: source.clojure | |
CoffeeScript: source.coffee |
# you can make a text file of request times (in ms, one number per line) and import it here, or you can use a probability distribution to simulate request times (see below where setting req_durations_in_ms) | |
# rq = read.table("~/Downloads/request_times.txt", header=FALSE)$V1 | |
# argument notes: | |
# parallel_router_count is only relevant if router_mode is set to "intelligent" | |
# choice_of_two, power_of_two, and unicorn_workers_per_dyno are only relevant if router_mode is set to "naive" | |
# you can only select one of choice_of_two, power_of_two, and unicorn_workers_per_dyno | |
run_simulation = function(router_mode = "naive", | |
reqs_per_minute = 9000, |
I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.