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A while ago I did some rage tweeting about job ads. Here is a list of helpful things people sent me to read then and since:

On good hiring generally

(diverse hiring generally) https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/25-tips-for-diverse-hiring
(hiring and retaining women) http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/HOWTO_recruit_and_retain_women_in_tech_workplaces
(Buzzfeed's approach to building a diverse team) http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/what-were-doing-to-keep-building-a-diverse-editorial-operati#3jjmnvr

On programming tests

https://twitter.com/alicebartlett/status/528300863333605376

Bitcoin Full Node on AWS Free Tier

Provisioning

Launch one T2 micro instance, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMI.
Open SSH and Bitcoin Protocol TCP ports: 22, 8333.
Attach 40GB EBS (General-Purpose SSD) volume for blockchain storage to /dev/sdf.

The pricing should be ~3$ for the first year (assuming 30GB upload per month). See here for more details.

Deploy Rails 4 app with Dokku on DigitalOcean

Install dokku

First create a Ubuntu 13.04 x64 droplet on DigitalOcean Control Panel

Then ssh with root account, run this in termianl:

$ wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/progrium/dokku/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

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	// assertions/compareScreenshot.js
	var resemble = require('resemble'),
	fs = require('fs');

	exports.assertion = function(filename, expected) {
	var screenshotPath = 'test/screenshots/',
	baselinePath = screenshotPath + 'baseline/' + filename,
	resultPath = screenshotPath + 'results/' + filename,
	diffPath = screenshotPath + 'diffs/' + filename;

	$base-font-size: 16px;
	$base-line-height: 1.5;

	// this value may vary for each font
	// unitless value relative to 1em
	$cap-height: 0.68;


	@mixin baseline($font-size, $scale: 2) {

	secret = "xxx"
	data = "http://someurl?someparams"
	hmac = OpenSSL::HMAC.digest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('sha1'), secret.encode("ASCII"), data.encode("ASCII"))
	signature = Base64.encode64(hmac).chomp

	# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com.
	# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
	#
	# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email [email protected].
	# Comments on gists don't notify the author.
	#
	# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
	# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.

	server {

	Rails as it has never been before :)

	Rails 3 AntiPatterns, Useful snippets and Recommended Refactoring.

	Note: Some of them are collected from different online resources/posts/blogs with some tweaks.