oscarduignan

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by oscarduignan 12y ago
There are a lot more bees in a hive than in a pod of whales or dolphins, we're talking potentially many tens of thousands of bees per hive. I think that's the qualifier here, scale of numbers
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
It really depends on what type of programming you and your friend are talking about, it may be worth clarifying this with him. Though from personal experience I would say with most jobs (and especially those relating to web development), la
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Leaving microsoft to change the world - http://www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com/ Born to Run - http://borntorun.org/
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
A little while back I got an email from someone using this feature to send out his résumé! Quite an ingenious use I thought, find all X developers near Y and send them a friendly form email customised using other details available from thei
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
> - We keep a local settings file for each environment, and those /are/ versioned. We have a /settings_local directory which contains each of the variants (localdev/dev/staging/df/live). The appropriate one is sym linked to /settings_lo
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
> -Set up a local configuration file (not managed by version control) and a base configuration file with all the settings that are immutable. Import the local config file within settings.py so as to avoid local setting conflicts. Have y
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Something like the vim command-t plugin ( https://wincent.com/products/command-t/ ) can make filenavigation very fast. That, the already mentioned C-j, C-k, C-h, C-l bindings, nerdtree, and bufexplorer ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.ph
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
If you've not got much experience within an industry, it's really easy to overestimate the average skill level of others in that industry. It sounds like your problem isn't your lack of qualifications or your lack of connections; but the fa
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Chris Eppstein (develops compass) does a great job breaking down the why (for tools like sass in general) here => http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-styleshe...
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Have you written up any notes about your conventions/system in org-mode? I'd be really interested to read more from you about this, as I'm using org-mode as well, and it's really helpful reading about how other people are putting it to work
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
I didn't stick around after reading the title when the youtube page loaded, however I'm pretty sure it was Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up.
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
What an awesome RSS feed icon they have, if you haven't already, try hovering over it a few times (and then a few more.)
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
http://orgmode.org/ is a brilliant tool for this kind of thing. And you don't need to know emacs to get started. If you're unfamiliar with emacs then getting it setup does require some persistent effort, however once your over that hill,
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Just after Christmas I started taking Salsa Dancing lessons, and have since expanded into Tango, Cha-Cha, and Merengue. Hell of a lot of fun, and I've met some interesting people as a result. That and the usual; cooking, reading (fantasy an
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by oscarduignan 16y ago
Yes, here's my poor-man's standing workspace: http://imgur.com/LGArE.jpg I've found it works really well, it affords me lots more storage space, and (after the first week of working with it) has eliminated my lower back pain. I recommend
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by oscarduignan 17y ago
Haven't read the article, I just like the picture... http://plpatterns.com/post/307982918/its-hard-to-change-a-li...
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by oscarduignan 17y ago
Apparently there is an auto responder set up, to notify you if have found the correct address.
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by oscarduignan 17y ago
Got a confirmation, but it said that I missed something, and so it continues!