Dobbs

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by Dobbs 15y ago
Documentation, examples, and help. There are plenty of reasons to google for a project that wouldn't involve using NPM.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Because the only time you try to find a project is on search.npmjs.org? This is the same problem as "Go". The community has to develop a different term for googling the project than the project's name.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Graphite was the biggest changes I had to adjust to when I moved to my current job and will be the biggest thing I push on all future jobs. We have stupid bash scripts that run on cron every minute. The scripts collect all sorts of system d
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by Dobbs 15y ago
The implication that software engineers aren't "creative" people. Many believe that software engineering is closer to art then it is to engineering.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
A commit is just that a commitment to buy "x" amount of bandwidth. If you have a commit for 500Mbps at $1 a Mbps on the 95th then you will pay at least $500 a month regardless of how little you use. If you end up using 1Gbps then you will p
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by Dobbs 15y ago
I have caps setup as a third ctrl key. So at least for me Ctrl-[ is super easy to hit, as is every other ctrl based modifier. I greatly prefer this setup. I never used Caps before and now I have a useful key in a useful position.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
I don't use SNMP neither do any other operations people I know. Its interface is complicated, hard to navigate and a pain to manage. It's still used for network monitoring since that is what routers and switches talk but most people use som
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by Dobbs 15y ago
It actually doesn't use all of the major GNU tools it uses very few of them. GCC and the build chain is about all I can think of off the top of my head. Most of the userland is from FreeBSD. And GCC and the build chain are quickly being rep
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by Dobbs 15y ago
I think Forbes has a much better visualization with more meaningful numbers: http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html
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by Dobbs 15y ago
I'm very confused how everyone thinks this looks good? I can only speak for myself but I find the font hard to read. The background color is very distracting (and frankly ugly). When using code highlighting the foreground colors clash horri
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by Dobbs 15y ago
First is Posix, the second is bash. The first is more portable.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Btw: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-vid...
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84% of the investment gains from hedge fund went to the managers(plus.google.com)
176 points by Dobbs 15y ago|87 comments
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Vim has this problem also.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
QWERTY with caps as control. Ctrl+[ is considered escape on older keyboards so vi style software includes emulation/acceptance of this behaviour. Lets you hit escape easily, one finger on each hand, while still having easy access to other c
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by Dobbs 15y ago
seq -w 19 | xargs -I{} -P4 -n1 wget " http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip
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by Dobbs 15y ago
On Firefox you can press: 'View' -> 'Page Style' -> 'No Style'.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
You might want to edit and remove your phone number.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
I have no idea where I get it from I'm half American, half British. Looking it up on Wikipedia says that the standard is ay-ch while the non-standard is haitch (which is a better way of spelling what I meant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Silly American, 'H' is pronounced hu-ay-ch not ay-ch. In all seriousness how it is pronounced can and does change depending upon where you come from.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
whois or ping are not a good way to find the ip of a hostname. Use either a dns library or dig.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Ubuntu/Debian have a very nasty habit of breaking the "principle of least astonishment". Things like why isn't my '/etc/cron.daily/blah.sh' script not running? I'll give you a hint its the period. Good luck realizing that if you come from a
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Have you tried witch? I have it bound to alt+tab. Super customizable, I have things like ignore all minimized applications, only windows in this space and ignore any window from adium. Lets me easily switch between terminals, vim windows an
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by Dobbs 15y ago
A much better reason is that you can't easily put things in the public domain and many countries don't recognize the public domain.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
On foreign machines I'm rarely doing anything complicated enough where not having my .vimrc is noticeable. If I'm going to be spending a lot of time working on something, then it isn't a problem to either use my local machine or sshfs the r
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Just realized wolfram alpha works really well for doing complicated data conversions, particularly data transfer rates. 100 Terabytes a month in megabits a second.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Their proof is an unoptimized video vs an optimized video. Their product is a standard recommended video optimization. The people behind RayStream are either lying and/or don't understand what they are talking about.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Bill pay, direct deposit, automatic savings withdrawal, subscription services, saved billing info (iTunes, Amazon) to name a few.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
It is not in the url bar but you can right click on the toolbar select customize and then drag a rss button back onto the toolbar.
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by Dobbs 15y ago
Data centers are huge, hot, and expensive. Both how hot an area is and how prone to natural disasters it is drastically affect the price of the data center. The parent post asks good questions. Why are the data centers in Tokyo rather than

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