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by grn 12y ago
Many of my friends, technical and non-technical, do prefer tracking precisely for this reason. They find it more convenient that the search engine knows their preferences, location, etc.
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by grn 12y ago
You're right that it doesn't go into detail but it's short and provides high-level overview of the most important features. It's much easier to learn the basic of something from a book and then find the details in the ma
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by grn 12y ago
I can recommend Mastering SSH - it's a nice, short read. http://www.amazon.com/SSH-Mastery-OpenSSH-PuTTY-Tunnels-eboo...
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Click – Python library for command-line interfaces(click.pocoo.org)
370 points by grn 12y ago|102 comments
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by grn 12y ago
I'm using Kindle (+ Readability) + printouts. I really like books but they have two disadvantages: they are a little bit more expensive (but that's not the rule) and, what's more important, they occupy space on a shelf. I hav
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by grn 12y ago
That's very true and I think that it's related to the topic of Rich Hickey's talk Simple Made Easy [1]. Maybe what we need is to study the economics of software and come up with a system in which market outcome is promotion o
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by grn 13y ago
> A little difficult to do when part of what made the Mozilla Foundation what it is is supporting equality. Could you elaborate? I'm really not aware of the internals of the company.
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by grn 13y ago
Personally I don't know what to think when organizations mix their core business (e.g. making a web browser) and politics (e.g. support for free speech). I'd like to see politics and business as separate as possible. What do you t
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by grn 13y ago
See also http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2014/03/21/independent-decisio...
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by grn 13y ago
I must admit that I never saw that much value in ipython. Of course I understand that you can create a nice notebook with embedded plots, etc. but apart from that what does ipython give me? How does it compare to Vim + Jedi (autocompletion)
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by grn 13y ago
You can also download Virtual Box VMs with different versions of IE http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads . Indispensable when developing on Linux!
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by grn 13y ago
Why did they remove the menu at all? If removing it was such a bad idea then it would have come out in user research.
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by grn 13y ago
But you can still mark the buttons with colors so your users will make less mistakes. I think that the two issues are orthogonal.
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by grn 13y ago
I plan to learn Clojure this year. What online resources and books can you recommend for learning the language and the tooling?
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by grn 13y ago
A related blog post - http://socialtriggers.com/annoying-popups/
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by grn 13y ago
I know a PHP programmer who makes about 6.5k EUR / month as a contractor but that's my only data point. I'm considering moving to Berlin and working there as a contractor so I'd love to see some more data. Keep in mind t
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by grn 13y ago
What other development-related weekly newsletters can you recommend? Currently I'm subscribed to: Hacker NewLetter - http://www.hackernewsletter.com Status Code - http://statuscode.org/ Pycoders Weekly - h
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Codebrag - code reviews app(codebrag.com)
4 points by grn 13y ago|0 comments
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The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design by Michael Feathers(vimeo.com)
1 points by grn 13y ago|0 comments
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by grn 13y ago
Changelog: NEW Web Audio support (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/songs-of-diridum-pushing-the-web-audio-api-to-its-limits/) NEW The find bar is no longer shared between tabs CHANGED If away fro
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by grn 13y ago
Debian sid on my desktop, stable on my laptop. I'm thinking about switching to Arch though. When it comes to the software I use: - window manager - i3 - editor - vim - terminal emulator - urxvt - web browser - Firefox - e-mail client -
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by grn 13y ago
I learned about the index funds from a great book I'll Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi. Despite terrible title it's quite nice and recommends investing in index funds heavily. I live in Poland where, unfortunately, this segm
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by grn 13y ago
As far as I know the early ICs were much less reliable than circuits made from discrete components. It's the improvement made by private companies like Fairchild and others that made them practical. There's really a long path fr
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by grn 13y ago
From the comments I draw the conclusion that a solid, open source, GUI e-mail client would have great popularity. Are there such clients out there? I used Thunderbird under Linux but it feels cumbersome.
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by grn 13y ago
Good point! Interestingly I managed to work without it somehow. I just checked that C-g C-g works as cancel when those binding are present.
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by grn 13y ago
I can also recommend the 29A magazine and z0mbie's website - http://z0mbie.host.sk/ .
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by grn 13y ago
I prefer to use inputrc instead of aliases. Put the following into your .inputrc "\C-gs": "git status -sb " Then, for example, after pressing Ctrl-g, s "git status -sb " will appear in your prompt. Muc
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by grn 13y ago
I upgrade my hardware once in a few years. For the last 3 years I've been using Core 2 Duo E7200 + 1GB RAM + 500 GB HDD. Before that I'd been working on Pentium 200 MMX + 64 MB RAM + 20 GB HDD for around 8 years. Before that I had
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by grn 13y ago
Do Germans really associate that phrase mostly with Hitler? I find it quite surprising because despite not being German (nor German-speaking) I know that this phrase comes from the first verse of the Deutschlandlied.
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by grn 13y ago
I live in Poland, went to school here, and definitely cannot confirm the claims made in the article. Half of my education happened in the reform school system that the article mentions and almost everyone agrees that it's much worse th

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