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by re_todd 15y ago
I started using Tomboy notes (and recently Gnote) to write short notes. They have a good, quick search built in to lookup old notes. They are easy to backup as well (copy .tomboy/ or .gnote/ subdirectory from home diretory).
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by re_todd 15y ago
... and they don't reduce our multi-core cpus to a crawl.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Good perspective, at first I was outraged, but then knowing the way government works, this could have easily been $10 million.
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by re_todd 15y ago
"!ssh" to run the most recent ssh command without having to type out the long list of arguments I use and the host name.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Agree with "find", especially finding files with recent changes, e.g. in last 5 minutes: find . -mmin -5 -print
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by re_todd 15y ago
Think of it as a 9.7, rounded up.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Maybe it could work if you split the password up. Email someone the first half of the password, then tell them to append the second half from the link.
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by re_todd 15y ago
I don't know why more people don't recommend community/junior colleges. You can cut the price of education almost in half if you start out 2 years at a JC.
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by re_todd 15y ago
I used it about 2 years before realizing it had regular expressions, which have made some of my queries so much easier. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-matching...
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by re_todd 15y ago
I'm kind of the same way, but it depends if there is someone singing in the music. I find vocals distracting when I need to concentrate. Also, listening to my favorite music is distracting. To concentrate when working on something diffic
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by re_todd 15y ago
Yeah, I think the title should have been "Signs that you are a mediocre programmer", which would have been less discouraging. I'm sure most good programmers have started out making many of these mistakes. At least it has a "Remedies" sect
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by re_todd 15y ago
Ruby on Rails Tutorial is awesome. Even though I went through most of the Agile book years ago, going through the Tutorial helped me: get up to speed with newer versions of Rails, learn the basics of git, and see how test-driven developmen
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by re_todd 15y ago
Yeah, I have to restart it at least once a day. In addition to "Clear Recent History", how about a "Clear Older History", where I can delete everything older than a month or a week? That would clean out probably more than 95% of the cruft
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by re_todd 15y ago
Agree 100%. I use the "past year" or "past month" at least once a day. No date ranges to fiddle with, no new page to have to go to to enter a date range .... just click the link and the results appear in a second. DDG would be awesome wi
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by re_todd 15y ago
Can't remember the source ... "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried."
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by re_todd 15y ago
Some of us choose smaller banks, like Washington Mutual, but then they get bought out by bigger banks, like Chase. Chase has not been as bad as Bank of America for me, so I've decided to stick with them. It's cool to have your ban
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by re_todd 15y ago
That's what I usually do. I normally use Firefox, but I use Chrome for Google logins and Opera for Facebook logins.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Yes, it is often the non-programming tricks that allow me to be a more productive programmer. Watching other programmers use a few powerful commands in vim, plus a cool flag for grep I didn't know about, plus how to efficiently organize th
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by re_todd 15y ago
Love the name "Howl", whoever came up with that should get a bonus.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Great book. It really helped me overcome git's learning curve.
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by re_todd 15y ago
But then us Ruby programmers would be called "Reefers".
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by re_todd 15y ago
Also, everyone knows someone who has strong feelings against AT&T, even regulators and legislators probably have at least one friend or family member who has been screwed over by them.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Seems like Google is becoming more risk averse focusing more on quarterly profits, which will make them more boring in the long run.
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by re_todd 15y ago
I've never bought Apple, but I've recommended them to non-tech friends and family that sought my advice. From now on, no more recommendations from me.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Great points. I thought that if I stayed in the library and studied as much as humanly possible that I would be very successful. Then I saw all the C students that went to lots of parties have way more job opportunities than me. And they
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by re_todd 15y ago
That is what I do, I have a 4 character personal salt, like "7Pd$", and put it in the middle of a lowercase word or phrase. Having a symbol, lowercase letter, uppercase number, and number will satisfy most password requirements. I use it
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by re_todd 15y ago
A closure is a function that can access variables that don't have to be passed in as parameters.