decklin

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by decklin 17y ago
You'd think The Economist would bother to actually check instead of saying "let's hope the people who make the rules at the TSA don't read this particular xkcd comic." Here is the TSA's response: http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2009/10/response-to
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by decklin 17y ago
Bleah. This calls for some deconstruction: http://blog.rupamsunyata.org/2009/10/23/score-5-privileged.x...
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by decklin 17y ago
Same here. On a keyboard, I touch type with ten fingers, and on my phone, I use two, which is pretty much how I stumbled along with QWERTY before I decided to learn Dvorak, so it really doesn't bother me at all.
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by decklin 17y ago
try "altscreen on". (see also the -a option, and http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Window-T... ).
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by decklin 17y ago
Sup ( http://sup.rubyforge.org/ ).
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by decklin 17y ago
What in the world does this person's experience however many years ago compiling Gentoo have to do with "linux on the desktop"?
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by decklin 17y ago
M-. also takes a numeric argument (M-number or ESC number) to yank the nth word instead of the last.
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by decklin 17y ago
C-x C-e to open up the current command in $EDITOR. For previous commands, fc N M where N and M are numbers or search strings (opens the range of commands in your editor).
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by decklin 17y ago
I'm quite happy with them. Since I signed up in 2008, they've increased the base storage once: http://blog.linode.com/2009/04/23/33-additional-disk-space/
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by decklin 17y ago
I was with him until he blamed the Macintosh. If "basic computer skills" are things like saving a file in a particular path, what is bad about an interface that makes that abstract concept more accessible to most people? (But I guess I'm th
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by decklin 17y ago
Personally, I'd argue you do want to keep track of whether you are in a repo or not, since including that pipeline in your PS1 always forks three processes on every prompt. And if you're going to do that in your shell, it's good to have s
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by decklin 17y ago
It's better to use a plumbing command for this sort of thing; git-completion.bash ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=contrib/comple... ) has a thorough example. (The actual command called is 'git symbolic-ref HEAD'.)