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by paulannesley 13y ago
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” — http:&#x2
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by paulannesley 13y ago
True in any context.
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by paulannesley 13y ago
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010 Stali: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110727064007/http://eleveni...
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by paulannesley 13y ago
I'm using, and highly recommend, apt-cacher-ng: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/
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by paulannesley 13y ago
You can specify what version you want. That doesn't necessarily imply that version will continue to be available. Ruby has the same problem with "yanked" versions of gems.
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by paulannesley 13y ago
Just one of thirteen articles in the “Software Illustrated series” on the authors "Best Of" page. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of The remaining twelve are on my reading list now.
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by paulannesley 13y ago
To answer the “what kind of printer does it require?” part of the question; Here's the Circuit Scribe pen being used in a pen plotter, in this case to draw an arduino-compatible circuit: http://www.instructables.com/id&
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by paulannesley 13y ago
Likewise; two or three times, always quick and happy to refund.
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by paulannesley 13y ago
dotenv reads a file into Ruby's ENV. envconfig reads Ruby's ENV and exposes it as a useful configuration object. envconfig-rails uses that to e.g. push the SMTP settings into ActionMailer. The key value, though, is that envconfig
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Envconfig: Environmentally friendly Ruby configuration(blog.broadstack.com)
18 points by paulannesley 13y ago|4 comments
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by paulannesley 13y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense to build the features of Less/Sass etc on top of a well-known parser/interpreter (JS), rather than inventing a new one from scratch. I already feel like I understand how AbsurdJS works better than I
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by paulannesley 13y ago
For highlighting that you're not in vi insert mode, try using an emoji (e.g. high voltage sign: Unicode: U+26A1, UTF-8: E2 9A A1) instead of [NORMAL]. It works in iTerm2 on Mac OS 10.8. Can't vouch for other OS/terminal combi
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by paulannesley 13y ago
“… his collaboration with large seed companies like Monsanto …” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_actions_and_cont...
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by paulannesley 13y ago
Worth adding, because it's not mentioned on the linked page: When I deleted my account in 2010, there was a one month cooling off period, during which any sign-in would cancel the deletion request. Perhaps that's sensible to catch
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by paulannesley 13y ago
Doing events at a cafe with a good barista and a coffee tab instead of a bar tab sounds awesome. As does the eradication of mediocre (or worse) food & drink, and useless bags of landfill.
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Pat's Guide to Running Events(freelancing-gods.com)
48 points by paulannesley 13y ago|14 comments
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Mac OS X: launchd is cool(paul.annesley.cc)
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by paulannesley 15y ago
More specifically; your terminal must be at least 120x40 characters. Larger than that is fine, smaller wont work.
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by paulannesley 15y ago
Are you running Ruby 1.9? For some reason it has crazy rendering problems in Ruby 1.8, which we haven't got around to debugging yet. If you're using iTerm2 and the window is sized large enough, it ought to work.