fugue88

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by fugue88 18y ago
There goes the neighborhood!
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by fugue88 18y ago
I'm hosting some projects on my own box. It's a mix of svn and bzr repositories fronted by Trac. Trac is awesome, but it doesn't really understand bzr branches and such, so linking to code from inside Trac is a little weird. If you'll be
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by fugue88 18y ago
P.S. The entire thing's version controlled so I can view and edit from any of my systems. I also collect ideas on paper, and later enter them into this system.
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by fugue88 18y ago
I use Org Mode for emacs. Each project idea gets its own org file in an all-project-ideas directory. Each file is added to an Org Mode meta-file that specifies the location of the org files. I go through my ideas directory about once a we
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by fugue88 18y ago
The default qmail install will accept and queue incoming messages for accounts that don't exist on the system, and bounce them later (usually to an unrelated, innocent address) if the account isn't created. Did you do anything in your insta
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by fugue88 18y ago
"... I was trying to challenge the general perceptions of when you can start a start-up." I prefer to think in terms of "personal industry" rather than "startup." Personal industry used to be the normal case, with people building their own
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by fugue88 18y ago
The US version might be "you reap what you sow," which I like because crops produce more than what they were planted with. Pick a venture that lets you get out more than you put in, eh?
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by fugue88 19y ago
What about this? Put every document in a directory called 'All' or something. Want to tag foo.txt as vacation? 'mkdir vacation && ln All/foo.txt vacation/'
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by fugue88 19y ago
Maybe a lot of those programmers don't even realize how stressed out they are---they've probably been acclimated to it over a long enough period of time to not really notice.
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by fugue88 19y ago
I think that depends on the company. I'd say, especially in the software industry, that if a company rejects you simply because you don't have a traditional resume, then they probably aren't looking for exceptional people.
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by fugue88 19y ago
tar's specialty was writing archives directly to tape (Tape ARchive) and minimizing tape-seeks as much as possible. Yeah, it's a pretty old program.
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by fugue88 19y ago
English is my favorite novel language, but I didn't have much time for reading fiction in school. ;)
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by fugue88 19y ago
I have noticed that learning math from lectures (and similar means) versus learning math by reading a math book are very different skills. Learning from lectures may be very good to get a handle on the basics. You may learn the facts faste