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Greasing the Skids: Building Remote Teams

In the wake of the virus that-must-not-be-named (which most people misname anyway), it seems like everyone and their cat has posted some sort of opinion or how-to on making remote work, work. This is a good thing! Working remotely, particularly full-time, is hard! I've done it for my entire career (aside from an odd 14 month office period in the middle that we shall not speak of), but more relevantly, for the past two years I've been responsible for building, managing, and enabling an entirely remote team, distributed across nine timezones. Remote teams don't just happen by installing Slack and telling everyone to work on their couch: they require a lot of effort to do correctly and efficiently. But, done right, it can be a massive multiplier on your team efficiency and flexibility.

Here's how we do it. I'm going to attempt to structure this post more towards management than engineering, and so I apologize in advance if I assume terminology or knowledge which

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lihaoyi Ammonite$ amm
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Welcome to the Ammonite Repl 0.8.0
(Scala 2.11.8 Java 1.8.0_112)
@ {
  val funnyFilter = ammonite.terminal.Filter.simple(" ")((b, c, m) =>
    if (FunnyFrontEnd.nextLine == Nil) (b.take(c) ++ " " ++ b.drop(c), c+1)
    else {
      val head :: tail = FunnyFrontEnd.nextLine
      FunnyFrontEnd.nextReader = new java.io.StringReader(head)

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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; Adds 'Open in Atom' to context menu (when you right click) in Windows Explorer.
;
; Based on https://github.com/Zren/atom-windows-context-menu. It didn't work
; https://github.com/Zren/atom-windows-context-menu/issues/1.
;
; Save this file to disk with a .reg extension. Replace C:\\Atom\\atom.exe with
; the path to the atom executable on your machine.

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Advanced Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

Copyright © 2017 Fantasyland Institute of Learning. All rights reserved.

1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

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CONFIG=~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc

# Prevent terminal window losing focus
# sudo apt-get install xdotool wmctrl
get_winid() {
  xwininfo -name "$(xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname)" | \
    grep 'Window id:' | \
    cut -d" " -f4
}

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#! /bin/sh

git fetch
git remote prune origin
git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250

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package controllers

import play.api._
import libs.ws.WS
import play.api.mvc._
import com.micronautics.paypal.{TransactionProcessor, PaypalTransactions}
import java.net.URLEncoder
import concurrent.{Await, ExecutionContext}
import concurrent.duration.Duration
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit