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by raamdev 12y ago
It wasn't stated which language was learned before the Internet, only that (s)he learned how to code before the Internet.
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by raamdev 12y ago
I was hoping to learn why blue was chosen as the background color for that screen. This article doesn't mention that. Does anyone know why blue was used?
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by raamdev 12y ago
Another sample size of 1 (so I guess that makes us a sample size of 2): I had eczema from 6 months old until 18 years old, and asthma from 13 years old to 18 years old. The asthma was bad enough that walking up a flight of stairs winded me.
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by raamdev 12y ago
I grew up sleeping on the floor, and I was home schooled (through high school). As a kid, I had a premade story ready-to-go if a stranger asked why I wasn't in school: "I have a dentist appointment today." I'll be home s
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by raamdev 12y ago
I have a baby girl turning 1 in a few weeks and my wife and I opted to only use glass bottles for her. More scary, however, is all the stuff they put in everything else. For example, the fire retardant chemicals they use in manufacturing th
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by raamdev 12y ago
I work on open source software with two other developers and our business makes enough to pay for three full-time salaries (they're low-end software developer salaries, but we all live comfortably in the USA and Mexico). We sell two Wo
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by raamdev 12y ago
1. Yes, I admit, I don't know everything. My old self admittedly knows less than my present self (the post was written 4 years ago), who most likely, I hope, knows less than my future self. I posted the link in the hope that others may
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by raamdev 12y ago
I ran into that IE bug a few years ago while working on some PHP code. For those curious what that bug might look like, I did a quick writeup of my findings [1] and posted the solution that I used to work around IE's bad behavior. [1]
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by raamdev 12y ago
> If you struggle with typing, the first thing you're likely to do is reach for the mouse for anything other than text entry. Which means you reeaach over to the mouse, then mooooove the mouse, click, and...what was it you were doin
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by raamdev 12y ago
This speaks to how useful email is as a communications medium on the Internet and it's likely one reason why, despite all the new modes of communication, it's still a widely used standard: people from different cultures all around
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by raamdev 12y ago
No. The date matters. A lot. When I open a paper book or a blog post, the first thing I want to know is, "When was this published?" That immediately gives me context as to the state of the world when this was written. This is a
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by raamdev 12y ago
It's about recognizing differences in appearance based on association with others of the same species. If I've never looked in a mirror but I know what my mothers face looks like, I don't need to have ever seen my own face to
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by raamdev 12y ago
I work in web browsers a lot and the greatest thing I've ever done for productivity is use the Vimium extension in Chrome, which allows me to easily navigate the web using my keyboard. Pressing "f" instantly tags each link on
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by raamdev 12y ago
I just use Cmd+H to hide windows instead of minimizing, since hiding effectively does exactly what I want (get the window out of my sight, but leave the app running) and then I can easily Cmd+Tab back to it. I only recently found a good use
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by raamdev 12y ago
Check out iTerm2. Full-screen iTerm2 doesn't switch to a different desktop and tabbing to another app is instantaneous.
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by raamdev 12y ago
Being able to save and restore the window arrangement is also awesome. I keep iTerm2 in full-screen mode and I have it split into 4 terminals. If I need to restart iTerm2, I simply choose Window -> Restore Window Arrangement and my split
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by raamdev 12y ago
Case-insensitive auto-completion: brilliant! To set this up, add `set completion-ignore-case on` to your `~/.inputrc` file (create it if it doesn't exist).
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by raamdev 12y ago
No, case-insensitive auto-completion doesn't work by default on OS X. For example, `cd /appli <tab>` does nothing by default (it's not finding `/Applications/`) even though my disk is formatted case-insensitiv
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by raamdev 12y ago
> When I arrived, the fire alarms were on. And I explained that to the dispatcher.
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by raamdev 12y ago
> The same way that the fire department has to respond to every single fire alarm, I discovered this isn't true, at least not in Lowell, MA (a bit north of Boston, MA). A few years ago I bought a 3-family rental property. There was
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by raamdev 12y ago
I can't seem to find an RSS feed for these... that would be really helpful. This seems like a great way to consume large volumes of things that one might not otherwise ever get to... 10 minutes a week for 20 years seems a lot more doab
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by raamdev 12y ago
http://dev.sh has a nice auto-setup script for this.
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by raamdev 12y ago
https://github.com/facebook/phabricator
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by raamdev 12y ago
I'm at the HN and "8 tabs later" stage. Thanks for the reminder. Back to work!
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by raamdev 12y ago
I'm not sure why it never occurred to me to get an inexpensive pair of earmuffs designed specifically for blocking out sound ($20), as opposed to a really expensive pair of reference-class headphones ($200+). Most of the time I just wa
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by raamdev 12y ago
It looks like visits to the linked URL are blocked when the referrer isn't an MIT page. If you visit the authors' home page you can view the original article: https://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/author&
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by raamdev 12y ago
I started working as a tech consultant in my teens (not just building PCs for friends but actually developing relationships with local small businesses, translating tech-speak for them and advising them on the best course of action for thin
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by raamdev 13y ago
I never considered that perspective, that the difficulty (and dare I say, ugliness) of the language might've discouraged me early on. A prior job in Cambridge, MA paid for me to take any course I wanted at Harvard Extension School (a b
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by raamdev 13y ago
I always suggest starting with Why: Me: "Why do you want to learn to code?" Them: "Because I want to build X, or I want to modify Y, or I'd like to learn how to do Z but it seems like I need to know how to code first.&qu
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by raamdev 13y ago
I can vouch for Vibram FF, or even better, straight-barefoot. I was always told that I had "weak ankles" by doctors as a teenager and I was never able to run more than 3-4 miles regularly without developing extreme shin splints an

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