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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 145 posts.
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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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Cranking
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Vim is hard, I just want to click around
Jeff Kreeftmeijer's Vim configuration
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How to send and reply to email
Many of the tips below are already widely followed in academia, where debate and discussion over email have been taking place for decades.
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Using git to manage a website
How to update a web site automatically with git push, Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
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Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user's first impressions
For a while now, I've been using my home machine with MAMP to develop a research prototype. But last week, I got my hands on a PC to use as a web server. Before I could get started on it though, I needed an operating system to install — ideally one that would get the
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An lsof Primer
Key Options Getting Information About the Network User Information Commands and Processes Files and Directories Advanced lsof is the sysadmin/security über-tool
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Designing command-line interfaces
There are few articles on the design of command-line interfaces (CLIs), even if plenty of articles on designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) exist. This article is an attempt at presenting some of the most important guidelines for CLI design.
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Git can't be made consistent
This post complains about Git lacking eventual consistency. I have a little secret for you: Git can't be made to have eventual consistency. Everybody seems to think the problem is a technical one, of complexity vs. simplicity of implementation. They're wrong. The problem is semantics. Git follows…
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The Rands Test
It's hard to pick a single best work by Joel Spolsky, but if I was forced to, I'd pick The Joel Test. It's his own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate th
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Git is Inconsistent
Zooko provides a nice example of the problems with most distributed version control systems merge algorithms. He gives an example of a merge situation that most version control systems, including git, get wrong, but that darcs, Codeville, SCCS, and perhaps BitKeeper get correct.
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Power user replacements for OS X default apps
I've noticed that the longer I use OS X the more replacements I'm finding for Apple's built-in applications. Apple focuses heavily on design...
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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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Sane RSS usage
The first time I went without RSS in August, I simply went around to three or so of what I consider to be the best sites to get the latest news from. I combined that with my usual e-mail communications … and my regular scans of Twitter in order to figure out what was going on during the day. It was stress-free, and I…
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A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows
This post is based on a talk I gave at the 18th Cocoaheads Meetup Vienna (CHW018) on Feb 17th, 2011. It is an annotated tour of my Git config, Git related scripts and commands, and various other tips and tricks I picked up over the years. You can find most of these things in my dotfiles repo, as well with a lot of…
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"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."
I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems. What do I mean by that? Well, think about version control systems before the cryptographic-DAG systems, and especially Git, came along. Everyone (everyone you'd want to work with, at least) agreed that a version control system was…
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