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by wting 14y ago
The file system is the original "database". I solved an interview question recently using a few Linux utilities, pipes, and flat files. It was a bash one liner that impressed the interviewer, but then he asked me to solve it the "real" way.
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I usually have 1-2 windows of documentation on one screen and 2-4 terminals open on another.[0] This allows me to prototype, compile, test, build, look up info with minimal window switching. The biggest advantage is never having to hunt for
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25 minutes is too short, but I've found that a 90 / 15 minute cycle works for me. I highly recommend this Pomodoro extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-pomodoro/cg... You set the minutes per cycle and what sites to
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With today's tools it's not that difficult to sync your shell environment. Keep your config files in a private git repo and add a few lines to your .bashrc that does the following in the background: - git (pull|rebase|reset --hard) from
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by wting 14y ago
3D desktops are not at the responsiveness level of Windows or OS X despite improvements over the years. As a result, there is still a significant amount of Linux users using 2D desktops. For example, I'm using Gnome 3 fallback (i.e. classic
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This starts going down the rabbit hole, but you can misrepresent yourself as shooting for <small newspaper / blog / group> and say there were communication problems. Other times there are multiple entrances and if security doesn't c
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by wting 14y ago
I do this all the time with my camera stuff. I'm an amateur photographer (did weddings part-time), but bring my camera bag everywhere. I'll walk up to a security guard and ask him for directions to the press area, making sure that my camera
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by wting 14y ago
Yes, if you want to get pedantic about it languages are separate from implementation. For example there's CPython, Cython, PyPy, Jython, IronPython. However, reality is that most languages' ecosystems and performances are tightly connected
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"Fast" and "close" are subjective terms. That's a 50% increase for a few thousand function calls. PyPy uses JIT to improve Python run time speeds but it's still magnitudes slower than statically typed languages. I've upped n to 40 and rerun
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No citation needed as long as you understand both languages' runtime stack. Python is an interpreted language that runs on top of a virtual machine (usually CPython). Types are determined at run time. .py -> .pyo* (bytecode) ->
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That's one of the reasons Rust appealed to me more than Go. Go has a global mark and sweep GC. OTOH Rust has a thread local, optional GC.
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A balanced approach is use trial work as a level 2 filter and pay the applicant contract rates for a day / week. If the person turns out to be a no hire, you managed to avoid an expensive false positive.
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I think trying to convert vim users is pretty futile. /r/vim/ brought up a lot of issues with Sublime's vintage mode: http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/17i5ps/from_a_vim_persp...
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I'll definitely check this out, thanks lxdvs! I've been doing some research into Android apps and agree that the jumping through all the hoops with dex2jar, jd-gui (which fails to work for me on Linux), etc manually has been a pain. Another
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I find intra-organization chat rooms useful. Developers on their down time can answer questions while busy devs can minimize the window and focus.
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This may seem absurd, but I actually do use two sets of headphones for maximum noise protection. Why go through all this trouble? Sometimes you're forced to work in a noisy environment and there's no way around it. As a bonus, it's great fo
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by wting 14y ago
- optional gc - thread local gc vs Go's global gc - memory protection: Go has shareable mutable state - better functional programming support
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Some of us who travel between continents don't have that luxury. TSA already monitors Amtrack: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/opinion/don-phillips-tsa-vipr-... Due to the broad description of the organization's purpose, it gives them overr
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by wting 14y ago
No, the models are already built. However they need someone to comb through a company's financial records and plug the appropriate numbers into an Excel spreadsheet. It's a glorified data entry position, but interns will gain knowledge and
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Interest in software consulting has not gone down 80% overall, it has gone down 80% relative to total search volume over time. Here's the same graph with "linux" and "news" added: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=software%20consultin
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If the world standardized on English, it would help improve global efficiency and communication. As it is, English is the lingua franca of business and software. However a large part of culture is language, and countries are always trying t
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by wting 14y ago
Can the iPad Mini make phone calls? Can it fit in my pocket? The Mini's surface is 23 in^2 larger.
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Svbtle uses Freight Sans for the headings and Proxima Nova for body. In contrast, OP's blog uses sans-serif for everything which is why most users probably see it with Arial or Helvetica. Proxima Sans is a great font, but not free. The most
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With aptitude you would use the description flag (~d) like so: $ aptitude search '~dautojump' p autojump - shell extension to jump to frequently used directories p
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As a side note, aptitude is a superior package management tool to apt-get. The syntax is the same, but aptitude has 3 main advantages: 1) Keeps track of system state. Tracks packages installed as dependencies, and remove them when necessary
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Science sets out to answer the "why's" of the world. Why is there lightning? Why does a fungus grow a certain way? ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.ht... ) Sometimes answering these seemingly innocuous questions l
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Proxima Nova Soft. In the future check out this extension as it allows you to hover over elements to quickly find the font: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgc...
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I'm biased in favor or Arch Linux. It's fairly similar in spirit with Gentoo, but offers binaries rather than forcing users to build everything from scratch. AUR packages usually require compiling from source code though.
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Thinkpad fans are probably the only other group that likes a product line based on hardware. They may be smaller and/or less vocal group, but they're out there.
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I think you mean control of your data, rather than open protocols. For example, you can still access your Gmail via IMAP. It would be great if users could have a decentralized store of the private data, and merely gave websites or applicati

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