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#!/bin/bash
remver=`wget -O - https://atom.io/releases 2>/dev/null | grep "<h2>v" | cut -f 2 -d "v" | cut -f 1 -d " " | head -n 1 | tr -d " \n";`;
locver=`/usr/bin/atom --version | tr -d " \n"`;
if [ "$remver" != "$locver" ];
then
	echo "outdated $locver -> $remver";
	echo "Need sudo.";
	sudo echo "Thank you.";
	if [ -f /tmp/atom.deb ];
	then

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Using the selenium server at http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub

Feature: Login
    As a user
    I want to be able to log in to the app
    So I can access its delicious juices


  Scenario: Test it works                   # test/features/login.feature:6
    Given I am on the start page            # test/features/login.feature:7

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Add these lines to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf:

vm.swappiness=5
vm.min_free_kbytes=122880
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=500

Run these commands as root:

sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=5;

sudo sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes=122880

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# upgrade system, so you can add to ignore all updates later
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# remove your php, apache, etc
sudo apt-get purge apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 # add here your server packages

# change repositories to raring  (with backup)
sudo sed -i.bak "s/saucy/raring/g" /etc/apt/sources.list

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A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

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Workstations

• Desk
• Chair
• Display
• Power
• Stationery
• Lighting

Personality

• Benefits

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PHP

null == 0;
0 == "0x0";
null != "0x0";

Why?

JS

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/**
 * @Route("/user");
 */
class Users
{
    /**
     * @Route("/{user_slug}")
     * @ParamConverter("user", options={"mapping": {"user_slug": "slug"}})
     * @Template
     * @Secure("ROLE_ADMIN")

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<?php
// src/Acme/SubscriptionBundle/Entity/Transaction.php 

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

class Transaction
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Luhn(message = "Please check your credit card number.")

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#!/bin/bash
apt-get -y -qq install google-chrome-stable netbeans compizconfig-settings-manager ntp
./server_packages.sh