benrhughes

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by benrhughes 13y ago
Funnily enough, last week I released an Android app that does a similar (although not quite as cool) thing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hughesoft.... The main motivation was to be able to get
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by benrhughes 13y ago
Study Stoicism or Buddhism (if you don't like the religious aspect, it's easy enough to only focus on the philosophical - that's what I do). There's a surprising amount of overlap between the two. I always liked Buddhism
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by benrhughes 13y ago
Tmuxifier ( https://github.com/jimeh/tmuxifier ) is a great utility for scripting tmux layouts. Well worth checking out if you have complex layouts you want to be able to recreate.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
At work we have non-devs (mostly scientists) using our repos, and I didn't want to have to teach them git. Mercurial is much easier to pick up IME. With the right plugins enabled, there's not much I miss day to day compared with g
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by benrhughes 13y ago
The VsVim extension for Visual Studio is actually quite good too.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
Pretty and neat, although I echo the sentiments of others on the use of "expert". Especially when github is where I do side projects, not stuff I'm good enough to get paid to do.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
In the context of Epictetus' writing, "they" in fact do not hold power over you. That is in large part the entire point of Stoicism.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
The 300MB limit might have been removed from the copy, but it's still enforced: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5428533/Capture.PNG
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by benrhughes 13y ago
I do a similar thing. As Epictetus said: "When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right,
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Link seems to go nowhere, unfortunately
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Sure: http://paulsamways.com/projects/upublish
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by benrhughes 14y ago
That mirrors my experience with Amazon too. Although it was 3.5hrs of full-on whiteboard coding, I really enjoyed the process and felt like I learned a lot. 3 of the 4 interviewers were excellent.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Funnily enough, I just wrote something similar in node[1] and one of my mates has just written one in Go too. Great minds, or something :-) [1]: https://github.com/benrhughes/crashdown
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Because it's taken me less time to write my own thing, that does exactly what I want, than it usually takes me to configure and customise wordpress. Also, (and this is the main reason, really) it's just a lot of fun.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
This would have been perfect around a year ago. Once the writing was on the wall, I migrated 4 or 5 sites (kinda, mostly) to self hosted Wordpress. I would have happily shelled out $5/mth to go to posthaven, had it existed. Because WP bugs
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Thanks for fixing it :) The app itself is really nice. Seems to do exactly what I'd expect. Nice and simple. Good work.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Twitter signup fails on redirect with a "sorry that page doesn't exist". Url is https://api.twitter.com/oauth/mrklt.herokuapp.com/session?oa... ;
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by benrhughes 14y ago
FYI, for whatever reason, trying to sign up in FF for Android I constantly got an invalid email address error. Worked fine through desktop Chrome though.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
FWIW, with C#'s object initialisation syntax you can cut that down to once too. eg public class Foo { public string Bar { get; set;} } var foo = new Foo { Bar = "Hey there" };
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by benrhughes 14y ago
I think the author is being a little uncharitable to MS. While he's correct that the whole company isn't going OSS any time soon, there's a decent number of projects that are "fully" OSS (as in they take contribs) and even more where the so
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by benrhughes 14y ago
This is nice, but I'd like it to go a step further. I have my default branch set to 'dev' so that that's where pull requests go by default (otherwise I end up with pull requests going to 'master', and having to manually merge them). However
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by benrhughes 14y ago
> I've always felt there was something bordering on the "sacred" about memories. They're as personal a thing as you can have. Being able to rewind and see everything that ever happened to me would take something away from that for me.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
At my last place we used Trello from the day it came out (and had used fogbugz for years). At my current place we use jira + agile. I do prefer Trello for high level stuff, but I think jira does a good job of handling both high level and lo
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by benrhughes 14y ago
Excellent, looks great.
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by benrhughes 14y ago
I really, really like the interface. I'd love to use it for my blog, but I'd want a self hosting version. I've been burnt too many times by hosted/proprietary writing platforms. If you're not keen on self-hosting, I'd want: - the ability t
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by benrhughes 14y ago
A few months ago I quit Twitter after being a fairly heavy user (24k tweets in ~4yrs). I found one of my now-best IRL friends on Twitter, and a lot of other people I care/d about. But more and more, it seemed to create an emptiness in me. O
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by benrhughes 14y ago
1) Discourses (incl Enchiridion) by Epictetus, if you're interested in happiness and contentment. 1a) A Guide to the Good Life is an easier introduction to Stoic philosophy if you don't want to dive straight into Epictetus 2) The Black Swan
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MVC is only part of the picture(blog.benrhughes.com)
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by benrhughes 14y ago
MVC is great for managing the display layer, but it doesn't really cover how to manage your domain logic. IME, MVC scales best when the "model" is a logicless DTO created by a business layer. For small scale apps this is overkill, and you c
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by benrhughes 14y ago
This is understandable, but a bit sucky for me. Since day 1 I've hosted todotxt.net's installer files on github, and the project's landing page uses the downloads API to link to the latest version. Thankfully I changed the app to link to th

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