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"Today I read the statement, "It's hard to achieve agility with efficiency", and wondered, "is that a reasonable objective?" - Thoughts?" - @DocOnDev

I've given this a lot of thought in an unlikely context: home maintenance.

I have two young kids, so it's not realistic that I'll get an uninterrupted daylight hour on the weekend. Yet, there is a pile of stuff I want to get done. If I apply a slice and dice mentality, I can accomplish most things, but I'm always grossly inefficient. For instance, this weekend I wanted to hang lights. It's annoyingly inefficient to pack and unpack the ladder multiple times, yet I have to do it, because I can't be sure I'll be able to get back to it. Also I'd like to test-drive my lights (since my "normal" feedback loop might be days long). If I hang "the most valuable" section, I need a very long extension cord. To reach those lights, I'll also have to leave this cord in an obvious and "ugly" place.

So my observations are that that agile/incremental/verifiable work req

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"The jobs are here, we don't have the workers to fill them"

Review

• It was good, I'm glad I saw it. I'm not sure who the intended audience was, sometimes young women, sometimes corporate leaders?
• The first half of it didn't keep my attention, but it's a nice intro if you don't understand why this is important and the importance of women to the field.
• The second half was much more powerful to me, more current examples of women trying to fight "the man" and why it's hard.
• They touched lightly on solutions, but it was kinda disappointing. Fight stereotypes, create more role models.
• The only solution presented for a company: Spend lots of money, recruit out of bootcamps, grow talent, fight to retain.
• http://shescoding.org/ for more.

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module FunctionalQuery
  def initialize(collection)
    @collection = collection
  end

  def result
    @collection
  end

  def average_by_attr(attr)

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pbpaste | highlight --syntax=rb -O rtf high.rb | pbcopy

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require 'cucumber/rake/task'
 
def run_rake_task(name)
  begin
    Rake::Task[name].invoke
  rescue Exception => e
    return false
  end
  true
end

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hash_syms :yo, :foo

def hash_syms(*args)
  hash = {}
  args.each do |arg|
    hash[arg.to_sym] = self.send "#{arg}"
  end
  p hash
end

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#Page object way

(rdb:1) option_index = pay_type_element.options.find_index{ |e| e.text == 'Credit card' }
2


#Watir-webdriver ways
(rdb:1) option_index = pay_type_element.option(:value, "Credit card").index
*** DEPRECATION WARNING
*** You are calling a method named option at /Users/stevejackson/projects/cucumber-and-cheese/test_puppies/features/support/pages/checkout_page.rb:16:in `checkout'.