graywh

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1. 631.▲
   by graywh 18y ago

   I've always wanted to get one of those big exercise balls to replace my general issue office chair, but a desk that I could stand at would be nice, too.
2. 632.▲
   by graywh 18y ago

   Not relevant to programming, but a nice diversion.
3. 633.▲
   by graywh 18y ago

   The quote on that post mentions pg as an Emacs users, but he's used vim for years.
4. 634.▲
   by graywh 18y ago

   I was expecting suggestions on what to EAT for breakfast.
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   Coding Horror: Programmers Don't Read Books -- But You Should(codinghorror.com)

   9 points by graywh 18y ago|13 comments
6. 636.▲
   by graywh 19y ago

   I think he took out "www." It's probably possible to do something similar with superfluous POST variables. Perhaps someone could improve the URL matching algorithm?
7. 637.▲
   by graywh 19y ago

   The rationale being that HN wants to reward the websites that hackers find useful or meaningful and not give free linking to spam?
8. 638.▲
   by graywh 19y ago

   And it's not like nobody's using it. The Pidgin developers are using it. Side note: http://www.monotone.ca lists Git/Cogito as an alternative, but not plain Git.
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   The Problem with Software Registration(codinghorror.com)

   3 points by graywh 19y ago|1 comments
10. 640.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Linus Torvalds actually said Git was probably a bad idea for doing the home directory thing, but that hasn't stopped people from trying. I'd be interested to hear more first-hand stories from other hackers doing the same thing.
11. 641.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    MoinMoin (python) is good.
12. 642.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Actually, that's a valid point. "Two-pizza team" could mean 2-5 people depending on how much pizza that really is and how hungry your teammates are.
13. 643.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    At least he gathered some new quotes and anecdotal evidence. I particularly like the "two-pizza" reference.
14. 644.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Guess I need to turn up the sarcasm sensors!
15. 645.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    What do you mean? There's the Pontiac car. And Mozilla temporarily used the name for the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox project but changed because the database was already using the name.
16. 646.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166559
17. 647.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    I'm not sure why, but we (people) generally sleep better in cool air and warm blankets. Having a cold pillow facilitates this. Another good reason to turn down the thermostat and/or use a fan at night!
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    by graywh 19y ago

    I've seen the same thing happen with a rails app a co-worker created and populated with data for a demo/tutorial. It got indexed by the university's web crawler overnight and was empty the next day.
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    by graywh 19y ago

    "If a programmer is hardwired to only use emacs or vi (for example) and could never consider using anything else, they may also fight any efforts to do unit testing or use version control or your build system." If a programmer insists on us
20. 650.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Best 'open' tip, use '-a' to specify the application, even without a file or location (e.g. 'open -a Firefox').
21. 651.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    I work at a research university/hospital and manage my own servers for my department. Each server runs Debian or Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL. I can't imagine not being able to admin my own servers. That's part of what being a hacker is all abou
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    by graywh 19y ago

    Since PuTTY only has 16 colors, I just forward X11 connections and use gvim.
23. 653.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    This has appeared in more than one place and this is definitely not the earliest reference, but the first result on Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=git+branch+bash+prompt
24. 654.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Too complex. Try this one instead. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163168
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    GIT branch in your bash prompt [](snippets.dzone.com)

    1 points by graywh 19y ago|1 comments
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    by graywh 19y ago

    Not so much a social network for programmers, but programmer collaboration. Also, GitHub doesn't have the project management tools SourceForge has for things like tickets.
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    by graywh 19y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158316
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    Cleanly Migrate Your Subversion Repository To a GIT Repository(simplisticcomplexity.com)

    7 points by graywh 19y ago|0 comments
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    by graywh 19y ago

    DHH already said all this. And PG noticed hackers moving to Mac 3 years ago.
30. 660.▲
    by graywh 19y ago

    Excellent use of App Engine. But it makes me wonder why Google hasn't done this on their own yet. Maybe because they're trying to re-create every possible web app so you don't need to login to anything but Google?