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by alinajaf 15y ago
(Sort of) in the same vein, I've recently started using xmonad as my window manager and so far it's a lot more comfortable than the Ubuntu default. You may need to learn a teeny but of Haskell to get up and running, but so far I've been OK
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by alinajaf 15y ago
:help CommandT ... *:CommandTBuffer* |:CommandTBuffer|Brings up the Command-T buffer window. This works exactly like the standard file window, except that the selection is lim
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by alinajaf 15y ago
You realize that commandT also comes with a 'commandB' command that allows you to navigate open buffers?
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Agreed. I would add that, given you've found other ways to validate your idea, nothing inspires you quite as much to deliver as the opportunity to prove a naysayer wrong :P
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Nice article, your about page link in the footer appears to be a 404 though.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
That made my day, apparently I write like William Gibson!
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I implemented the flydown on my little side projects blog in about an hour after reading your other comment about it, it's doing really well. Keep up the good work!
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by alinajaf 15y ago
> The thing to look out for is your old password in password reset emails, not welcome emails. What's the use of encrypting your passwords when you're broadcasting them to every mail server between your and your customer?
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I like the way Carl Sagan described how organisms store information in Cosmos. We store all of our vital information in our DNA (i.e. how to metabolize proteins etc). What we couldn't fit in there we stored in our brains, passed on through
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Ooooh, you're about two months too late for me! If I hadn't discovered taskwarrior a few months back I would be all over this, though I must admit having all my tasks in git is nice.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Sounds like a tough position to be in. I'm not sure that outright ignoring your major competitor is such a great idea. You could perhaps use them to differentiate yourself in the eyes of your customers? For example I'm currently working on
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Re: comments about much bigger players, as a developer at a compay (moo.com) whos revenue is a _rounding error_ on our competitors balance sheets, I can say from experience that you don't need to be bigger to provide an awesome product, ama
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I used to scoff at the idea of the super-developer who is orders of magnitude more productive than anyone else. Mostly it was me protecting my own self-esteem. Then I met one and actually had to re-assess my ability as a developer, not just
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Perhaps you mean anecdote?
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by alinajaf 15y ago
By the way, an easy solution to this is to go to sleep early and pop some 'executive function' off your stack for your own projects in the morning.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
As an aside, at the few companies I've worked at, much to the chagrin of other departments, tech has consistently been the highest paid part of the company, at least at my (lower end) of the hierarchy.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
You mean the one available for free here: http://progit.org/ ?
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Couldn't this be done with a simple map function? Not sure the exact javascript but in ruby it would be as simple as: favourite_drinks = authors.map { |a| a[:favourite_drink] } Internally I'd imagine the language will have to loop th
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Then you have a great big log full of passwords, pretty much negating any security benefit of hashing them in the first place.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
We're a PHP shop and we have version control. All but one of the companies I worked at used _some_ sort of version control, so it just doesn't make any sense that deploying an old release should be so tough.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> I would hope you will have some respect for other peoples' beliefs in the future. Some beliefs don't deserve respect.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Hate to pick nits, but you mean living animals. Plants are alive too.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Perhaps I don't participate in the mailing lists and message boards where these battles were fought, but the only python/ruby users I've met in real life have always been pretty neutral towards the other language, at least acknowledging tha
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by alinajaf 16y ago
If you're working on projects outside of your full-time job, do it BEFORE work. Go to sleep relatively early, wake up at 5 and put an hour towards your projects every day. You can work in the evenings as well, but you've done your work, so
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by alinajaf 16y ago
As someone who has been down this route, IMO taking the lead, being good-humoured and having sex with a shitload of women is _entirely_ mutually exclusive with not respecting them. It's exactly this kind of thinking that a) makes women feel
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I think every developer has elements of Steve/Chris in them. Sometimes you want to punch out a project and other times you're concentrating on tidying up the code and making it production ready. Unit testing has you alternating really quick
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Awesome idea dude. I'm going to buy my first car and was going to record all my repairs, inspections, MOTs etc in an excel spreadsheet. Might use your app instead. Good luck!
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by alinajaf 16y ago
PHP in general encourages a whole lot worse things than lazy development. If we've already agreed to overlook it's other shortcomings by saying "good developers matter, the programming language doesn't" then we can overlook this too.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
+1 on the Felix Dennis book, I read it whenever I'm feeling unmotivated. Its a great way to get your head out of the 9-5 mindset.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> Less Drama A male developer saying that would _so_ not get away with it :P

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