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Rails RSpec Checklist

• Ensure turbolinks is disabled for good measure

  • comment out gem
  • remove from javascript asset pipeline
  • remove from application layout

• Add the following gems to Gemfile in a development, test group

  • hirb

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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name: Detox

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
    paths:
      - 'customer/**'
      - 'shared/**'

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{
	// Place your snippets for elixir here. Each snippet is defined under a snippet name and has a prefix, body and 
	// description. The prefix is what is used to trigger the snippet and the body will be expanded and inserted. Possible variables are:
	// $1, $2 for tab stops, $0 for the final cursor position, and ${1:label}, ${2:another} for placeholders. Placeholders with the 
	// same ids are connected.
	// Example:
	// "Print to console": {
	// 	"prefix": "log",
	// 	"body": [
	// 		"console.log('$1');",

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const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// Application
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
    for (var key in require.cache) {
      delete require.cache[key];
    }      
  }

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#!/bin/bash
#
# An example hook script to make use of push options.
# The example simply echoes all push options that start with 'echoback='
# and rejects all pushes when the "reject" push option is used.
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "pre-receive".

# check if back merges are happening from important branches
echo "checking for bad branch names" 

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import Foundation

public func profiling<R>(label: String, @noescape _ block: () -> R) -> R { 
    NSLog("*** %@...", label) 
    let start = NSDate() 
    defer { 
        let end = NSDate() 
        NSLog("*** %@ took %5.3g seconds", label, end.timeIntervalSinceDate(start)) 
    } 
    return block()