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by alinajaf 15y ago
I stuck with Ubuntu but switch to gnome + xmonad on fresh installs. If this ceases to be possible in future releases I may take a few days and get set up with arch linux, and then automate that with chef or something similar.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Try the Tron Legacy: Reconfigured soundtrack (mixes of the original). Same level of epic but better to program to IMO.
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In that particular case, I'd be inclined to send over the patch as a diff file, though I can see the point your making.
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> Which makes vim faster, but doesn't mean one needs to reach for a mouse; secondly, what touch typist isn't already watching what he's typing? Requiring visual feedback is hardly slow. Yes it is. You can go seven or eight keystrokes in
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I'm going to put my grumpy old man hat on for a second and say that if you don't understand how git works, then you shouldn't be using it. Go use svn or hg or something that has a simpler internal model, and good luck to you. For me, gits i
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by alinajaf 15y ago
The level of comfort using vim for a proficient user is very very high, so much so that it becomes difficult to switch out to other editors. I'm quite sure that textmate, sublime and emacs are perfectly good editors, but there's no way I co
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Stick this in your ~/.gitconfig [alias] lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %C(bold white)%s%Creset %Cgreen(%cr) %C(blue)@%an%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative Then use from the cli as `git lg
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I've tried a number of gui tools for git but I keep coming back to the command line. You can format your `git log` output to give you your network graph and `git add -[pi]` allow me to stage hunks of diffs much like a GUI tool might. I thin
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by alinajaf 15y ago
master on your local repo is a different reference to master at origin and master at other developers machines. By merging your master into origin/master instead of rebasing, you leave the history looking like multiple branches were merged
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I think doing work you don't like or that you find difficult is compatible with new tech you want to learn just for the heck of it. As an example I'm currently trying to deep-dive on Natural Language Processing. I'm a middling programmer bu
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> Enjoying the work is key Recently I've discovered that this mindset has been detrimental. Sometimes hard work is supposed to be hard. If you rely on passion or some sort of intrinsic motivation, then as soon as you come to a task you
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> I already find myself losing motivation and taking 2-3x longer to get anything done. > have had maybe 7 days off in 18 months For me the most depressing situation is not designating blocks of time as work or play exclusively. It m
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Could it be that they're just being up front about using closed-source software for development (e.g. an IDE they paid for).
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Very nice. All my mac-wielding colleageues at work have had access to nice gradient tools and as the sole ubuntu user I was missing something similar. Great work.
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I like trello specifically because I can create a list called 'Work in Progress (MAX 5 ITEMS)' and it will more or less do what you've described, without forcing process on you. Not sure how well this scales to big teams I'll admit.
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Ask HN: Become a freelancer/contractor or keep working on product in free time?
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I've been using vim for years and I've met textmate, emacs and sublime text editor users who are a hell of a lot faster than me at editing code. What keeps me in vim is that it's comfortable, not that it's fast. I imagine that the switch to
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by alinajaf 15y ago
> I've come to almost despise the hipsters Can you give me a concrete example of one of these hipsters? I'd like to know because I work at a company where we use rails and related tech exclusively, so we'd probably fit right into this c
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> I am genuinely curious what you gleamed from your reading that made you atheist On it's own it didn't, but there was enough in there that a) I didn't agree with, b) didn't engage me on a spiritual level and c) that was just downright
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Well hold up a second... quote from that link: _ In the case of the Ruby language, the 1.9.x branch is not affected by the predictable collision condition since this version includes a randomization of the hashing function._ So there is som
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Thanks for the offer. I would take you up on it but as you say (and I sort of expected) it's not going to be a simple project and I have a lot on my plate right now.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I think your point is that if you want a feature implemented in an OS project, you should implement it yourself. In practice, we're web developers, and it's much easier to just pick up google chrome than it is to get set up with developing
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All correct. I would also add that I (along with many other non-Arab muslims) had read the Koran at a very young age in Arabic phonetically without understanding what it means. As far as my parents (and our sunday school teachers) were conc
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Perfectly valid question with a simple answer. I wasn't born with the ability to read, so between the time I was born and the time I could read and comprehend a translation of the Koran, I was a muslim who hadn't read the Koran.
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This is on my todo list. "Maths and stuff" is a big gaping whole in my intellectual toolbox and I've been meaning to get it sorted out for a while. I'll probably pick something like this up, right after I'm done with "Speech and Language Pr
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As someone who's made the transtion from muslim -> atheist, I was disappointed, confused and terrified when I first read a translation of the Koran. I'm genuinely curious as to what you've learned from it that's of any use, apart from p
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I had a fantastic reading year, too much to choose from: "Cosmos" - Carl Sagan "Hyperion" + "Fall of Hyperion" - Dan Simmons "Red Mars" - Kim Stanley Robinson "The Prince" - Niccolo Machiavelli
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I tend to agree. If we're screwing up the atmospheric conditions on this planet as bad as we are _by accident_, there's no telling what we can do when we get to Mars and actually put our minds to it :P
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The original Iron Man no, of course not. But I think it was Jon Favreau (the guy who directed the new movies) that said he used Elon Musk as an influence for building the character in the movies: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/s
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Still, I don't think it's wrong to be inspired by and compare yourself to people with epic achievements. Newton had his three laws figured out by my age, Alexander had conquered most of the known world and Zuckerberg was a multi-billionaire

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