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I’m guessing most of you have seen the comic explaining how a programmer reads your résumé. No, I don’t do my résumé in LaTeX just to get the +12 bonus. There are a handful of reasons I think it is a good idea. It stands out My résumé isn’t written in 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman, which sets it apart from 75% of…
In the last 10 years many new text editors became available for Mac OS X. Since I have tried most of them I wanted to give an overview and a brief description about each one of them. This is for developers that are looking for decent editors on the mac to get their job done.
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 .
Take a company you have a problem with 1. Imagine you hate Ryanair. I do not btw they are just an example of a company this would work on. 2...
When we first started porting Chrome away from just Windows, we intended to use Scons to build Chrome on all our platforms. But early on in development I discovered that Scons, despite its admirable goals of correctness and ease of use, was quite slow — it could take 40 seconds from starting Scons before it decided to…
A year ago Paul Graham posted The Acceleration of Addictiveness , and I just re-read it thoroughly. It is a wonderful insightful post. I agree with the whole thing and if you haven't seen it yet go read it first.
Most startups run (or believe they must run) a hodge-podge of email-slash-communication tools like person email, CRM, ticketing, etc.. But everything gets easier if you just have one email address and one system.
sed book This is the world's best introduction to sed - the superman of UNIX stream editing. Originally I wrote this introduction for my second e-book, however later I decided to make it a part of the free e-book preview and republish it here as this article. Introduction to sed Mastering sed can be reduced to...
Testling now has moved to Testling-CI Don't use anything described below as it doesn't work anymore All questions about Testling-CI: feedback@browserling.com We have amazing news at Browserling. We just launched a new product called Testling! Testling is automated cross-browser JavaScript testing tool. You write the...
Well I picked up an iPad 2 and have finally come to the conclusion that my years of gadget yearning should have taught me long ago. It is all about the apps and experience.
You'd think it'd be easy to reboot a PC, wouldn't you? But then you'd also think that it'd be straightforward to convince people that at least making some effort to be nice to each other would be a mutually beneficial proposal, and look how well that's worked for us. Linux has a bunch of different…
Vim is quite powerful programmer's editor, but has a very steep learning curve and it takes time to configure it properly. In this tutorial...
A friend of mine asked me for some links/suggestions for learning Emacs . While, I was naturally excited that another soul was interested ...
So you've got a DVD stuck in the external USB SuperDrive that connects to the MacBook Air? And you've tried hitting the magic Eject button ...
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Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
