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   Messing up Conway's Life algorithm produces interesting results(github.com)

   1 points by sobering 14y ago|1 comments
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   by sobering 14y ago

   That's what I had planned. Thanks for creating an outline for me. ;)
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Thank you for the advice, you've definitely given me some stuff to thing about, and I'm glad to hear from somebody who's worked in a field similar to what I'd like to get into. As for the man pages, I'm starting off with 'man', then will mo
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Don't laugh. My ultimate goal in life is to write software for satellites, space probes or planetary rovers. I want my code in space. It's a pretty advantageous goal, but with hard work I can do it. There is a Canadian company that is curre
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Hah! 'electronic flower of information'. Awesome. p.s. I'm from Winnipeg, the city Winnie the Pooh is named after.
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Agreed. I've had the same demoralizing experience with books and manuals in the past. What I really hope to do after reading each manual page is use it throughout the day wherever I can. Someone else also suggested reading some StackExchang
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Thanks for the advice. I've already gone through K&R, but I just got the C Answer Book in the mail a couple months back and wanted to go through all the exercises again. I'll just have to really pace myself and not take in more informat
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   by sobering 14y ago

   The StackExchange idea is excellent. I'll get a sense of how the command should be used in real environments. I'll definitely check out 'apropos'. :)
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   by sobering 14y ago

   Just found this little snippet via a quick Google search: dir="/bin"; man $(ls $dir |sed -n "$(echo $(( $RANDOM % $(ls $dir |wc -l | awk "{ print $1; }" ) + 1 )) )p") I think I may write my own version as well. Just to gain a bit mor
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    by sobering 14y ago

    Best of luck to you! I think it's really important to actually apply new knowledge to your everyday workflow. It's far too easy to go and read a book, blog post, or article and then just let that information go to waste.
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    by sobering 14y ago

    So far the plan is to start with "man" and then go through the man pages of my most commonly used commands: cd, ls, grep, cat, sed, etc. After that, I may write a little shell script that simply opens one at random for me.
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    by sobering 14y ago

    I too, seem to struggle with the day to day tasks. I hope that by publicly announcing my goals, it will make it slightly easier. I also tried to break down my daily tasks into something that is actually manageable. I feel like many people,
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    2013 Resolutions: a man page a day makes the newb go away(sobering.ca)

    37 points by sobering 14y ago|46 comments
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    by sobering 14y ago

    Your Twitter response was completely stupid. As people above mentioned, there was no effort put into spelling (although it is Twitter, so I'll give some slack). But blasting the dude with like six hilariously "ridiculous" Tweets just made y
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    by sobering 15y ago

    I think this site is a perfect showcase of how damaging some libraries and frameworks can be when used by lazy designers or developers. Bootstrap is a great tool, and I've used it in my projects before. It's amazing how fast you can get som
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    by sobering 15y ago

    Might when it's out of beta, but I'm currently enjoying Chocolat: http://chocolatapp.com/