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cp: -r or -R?
A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving this little bit of trivia from digital nirvana.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Visual Studio 2010 released
Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any developer, on any platform & language. Develop with our code editor or IDE anywhere for free.
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Panic Status Board is being discontinued
Status Board was something we’d always wanted. Originally a very nice web page designed to brighten up our office and act as our virtual water-cooler for company stats — as seen in this famous blog post — it evolved into a feature-packed, beautiful iOS app. We made it very easy to make beautiful boards, it worked…
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Version 11 of Mathematica
Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11 released Aug 8, 2016. 3D printing, machine learning & neural networks, audio. Available for desktop, cloud.
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Note-taking isn't rocket science
I swear some people out there be building their note-taking system like NASA engineers building the next rocket to send us to the next habitable Earth. No...
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Podman in Linux
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
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Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
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Make: Theory and Practice
make is a widely used and valuable development tool. It's a "build" tool: it builds programs and documentation according to a "recipe". It could really be used for anything where someone edits some files, and then runs a series of processing steps to generate some other form from the edited files. For the most part…
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Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
Learn about the considerations and interop commands available when working across Windows and Linux file systems with WSL.
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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
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Automate Everything - the hacker way
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...
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Speed Up Git Pull
Note: Results may vary, depending on distance from your Git servers. In my completely unscientific benchmarks using time, after the following steps, …
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When Does Work Actually Get Done?
Work gets done at 11AM on a Monday in October. At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.
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I Will File Bugs for You (2014)
This post prompted by Aaron Klotz’s Diffusion of Responsibility and Sumana Harihareswara’s Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source .
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Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
After watching this year’s EmacsConf and seeing Guile Emacs being resurrected I thought to myself - why limit ourselves to Guile? Sure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design. Other languages exist for Guile VM, such as Emacs Lisp, and Guile manual lists the following…
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Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer
Why just print forms and airline tickets from an inkjet printer when you can print electronics! All you need to do is to replace the…
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Documenting software architecture with arc42
arc42 is a template for architecture communication and documentation. It is a proven, practical and highly pragmatic approach and takes the pain out of documentation.
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
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Exploring Databases Visually
Things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images: generate contextual entity-relationship diagrams and navigate your data model from the inside!
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Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints
So far everything we’ve done with breakpoints involved us creating a breakpoint file and using this to automate part of a track. Now we’ll take a look at how we can take an existing track and extract some breakpoints from this. For this post, we’ll take a look at extracting the amplitudes from the .wave files, as this…
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Generate new repositories with repository templates
Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub.
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Setting Go variables from the outside
CloudFlare's DNS server, RRDNS, is written in Go and the DNS team used to generate a file called version.go in our Makefile. version.go looked something like this.
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