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by j-kidd 15y ago
> Do you really think we give people desktop computers simply to make it impossible for them to work from home? Actually, I do. In my country, bosses are more than happy to pay more for laptops so that the workers can work anytime. I ha
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by j-kidd 15y ago
MSDN is crap. It is just complete for completeness sake. You get the syntax, remarks, examples, version information, platforms, comments, and related content, but you still can't find what you are looking for.
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by j-kidd 15y ago
This is where coffee comes in. It kicks your brain up a notch, such that when you are busy reading blog posts, listening to podcasts, and chatting with your pals, you still have some spare brain cells left to feel bored.
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by j-kidd 15y ago
This is why X allows you to copy text by highlighting it, and to paste text by middle clicking. The problem was solved a long time ago. Just grab the mouse and stop being a keyboard elitist.
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by j-kidd 15y ago
Better yet, from gentoo's /etc/inputrc: # map "page up" and "page down" to search history based on current cmdline "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward This way, you have up/down for history trav
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by j-kidd 15y ago
> A primary example of this is `ls -l` (the color option is different on different systems, but is almost always aliased on by default). A primary non-example is Ubuntu, where $PS1 is colorless, and `grep --color=auto` is not aliased to
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by j-kidd 15y ago
> He made a point that software is alive and unlike biological systems, doesn’t have an automatic way to kill off old ‘cells’. That's just crazy talk. Software doesn't grow old!
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by j-kidd 15y ago
Try http://hginit.com for a fantastic introduction to Mercurial for people familiar with SVN (or not). Git was designed to suit kernel development (as shown in the article). For us simple-minded mortals who like SVN, it is much easier to
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by j-kidd 15y ago
It matters little how bad the migration is, when you ain't gonna need it in 99.9% of cases. When you are big enough to need the migration, your company has enough resources to roll your own Hadoop distribution.
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> That means that it will do a full table scan of table a for each record in table b where postal_code = '97000'. The query plan would be either: NESTED LOOP TABLE B WHERE postal_code = '97000' TABLE A (index scans)
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by j-kidd 15y ago
I think SQLAlchemy is designed for people who are comfortable dealing with SQL directly, while other ORMs want their users to be oblivious about SQL. In Chinese, there are 3 stages of life: 1. Looking at a mountain, it's a mountain - this i
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by j-kidd 15y ago
I beg to differ. It is a good article, and it makes me want to buy and read Javascript: The Good Part. Other people have recommended me the book before, but they were just hipsters who just follow whatever technology that is regarded by oth
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by j-kidd 15y ago
This is Maemo 6, renamed to Meego Harmattan. The actual "Meego for Handset" can barely make/receive calls, and Elop was right in dumping it. Blame OPK for not sticking with Maemo.