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Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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My failed bootstrapped startup: a retrospective.
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Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
I spoke at TXJS , a really excellent regional JS conference, in June. Thanks to @SlexAxton , rmurphey , and everyone else involved. My talk was concerned with the good, bad, and ugly of Ecma TC39 (and I mean those words in the best possible way!), mixing philosophy with historical events from the last 14 years.
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The New Apple Advantage
On the dearth of Apple-caliber products from companies other than Apple.
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Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
Let me preface this post by saying that no programmer should feel compelled to read any of these papers. I list them because I think that they provide a breadth of information that is generally useful and interesting from a computer science perspective. What you do with that information is your prerogative, including…
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Searching for "semicolon injection" bugs in embedded Linux devices
Introduction I recently bought a D-Link DCS-2121 surveillance camera. This is good stuff: Megapixel camera + microphone + speaker WiFi,...
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Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)
Today is a bittersweet day. I am closing one chapter of my life and opening a brand new one.
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The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
The negotiation tactics private equity firms use against founders - and how to spot them before you sign.
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know
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Hacking Christmas lights
I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35 .
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Git Is Simpler Than You Think
Git Is Simpler Than You Think It was about one year ago that we switched to Git. Previously, we used Subversion, through the Mac app Versions, which (rightly) holds an Apple Design Award. I made the...
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Krugman on BitCoin
Digital, but still a barbarous relic.
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Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever (in JavaScript)
Update: We’ve won Node Knockout in the “Completeness” category ! Congrats to the team!
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Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search
This is the final article in my three-part look at symmetry reduction algorithms for speeding up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps. Recapping the story so far: Part one introduces the notion of…
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Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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How to process a million songs in 20 minutes
X X The recently released Million Song Dataset (MSD), a collaborative project between The Echo Nest and Columbia’s LabROSA is a fantastic resource for music researchers. It contains detailed…
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Writing Vim Plugins
A while ago I wrote a post about switching back to Vim . Since then I've written two plugins for Vim, one of which has been officially "released".
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GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy
Now that GoDaddy is a near monopoly (larger than the next 8 closest registrar competitors combined 1 ), and just got bought out on July 1, 2011 2 , they have decided they can defy the sacred. Customers be damned.