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by gtani 18y ago
one of the Oreilly tiger manuals gives stern warnings not to move or rename or delete the perl and python that tiger installed. I think that still goes for Leopard, as well as for the factory ruby
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by gtani 18y ago
I think the MB Air is a beautiful design, but have the same complaints/ deal killers as everybody else: not enough ports, non-swappable battery, CPU throttled down by heat (a biggie for me). http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/05/11/putting-an-e
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by gtani 18y ago
mentioned 3 exercises: wrist curls, spinning ball thing and i don't know what the 3rd is called (finger abductors?: expanding your curled fingers outward) in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743 http://www.fitter1.com/C
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by gtani 18y ago
a couple other things: look for a full complement Control, Alt, Option keys on the right side of keyboard. Very important for a lotta editors, emacs, textmate. off-topic, but i've never seen this discussed anywhere. TO dual head my toshib
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by gtani 18y ago
Random thoughts: the MacbookPro and thinkpads, besides everything said here, have the highest resale value, for sure. But i would definitely avoid the early MBPs, lots of heat issues, bulging batteries and keyboards. The recent ones, incl
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by gtani 18y ago
Well, if you become the type where it really bothers you if you have bugs in yoru code, your needs won't be basic for long. I'm of 2 minds on this. I love Textmate, and Gray's Pragmatic book is superb. It just flows from my brain. My onl
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by gtani 18y ago
i hadn't noticed Eric Raymond keeps updating "How to become a Hacker". No mention of the in-vogue ruby, haskell, erlang, scala, scheme, smalltalk, OCAML, etc, but good stuff. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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by gtani 19y ago
gc: excellent advice on the curls. other wrist strengtheners http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder50/6a4b/ (they need to check how many "Gifts Under $50" cost $59.99 and PowerWeb thing (you need one if you've hired Django or Rail
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by gtani 19y ago
i'm not that picky about keyboards, as long as it's not the white/clear plastic Apple PoS. i do like the matias mac models, besides the cheap wired Logitech and Kensingtons: http://matias.ca/products/index.php
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by gtani 19y ago
if you're a dev, artima.com, lambda-the-ultimate, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki . Find some delicious, magnolia, etc user whose interests align with yours. Build your own Google custom search engine.