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Using unix as your IDE
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 247 posts.
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The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers, but has an enormous flaw: it needs to allow developers to charge existing...
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New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers. Many of us now...
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Please turn on two-factor authentication
You should read Mat Honan’s heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple’s security practices, but I would stil…
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Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
What snippets are and why the best Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Zynga, and Square use them to drive transparency and productivity.
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"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
Xen virtual private server hosting for the technically adept. Since 2005. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD virtual machines
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Your Bash Prompt Needs This
Have you ever had this happen to you? You start a program and then interrupt it with Ctrl-C, and Bash prints its prompt after the ^C you have typed:
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Audacity 2.0 Released
Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public…
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How rel=nofollow Works
Links shared on Twitter aren't surfacing in Google's Search Plus Your World because Twitter wants it that way.
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How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
If you’ve moved to Vim from an editor like Notepad++ or TextMate, you’ll be used to working with the idea of tabs in a text editor in a certain way. Specifically, a tab represents an open file; while the tab’s there, you’ve got an open file, as soon as you close it, it goes away. This one-to-one correspondence is…
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A fresh new Dropbox on the web
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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“iCloud Backup”
Last year, I bought my 87-year-old grandfather an iPad 2 to replace the who-knows-what PC that was frustrating him constantly. He only used the PC for email and playing music, so it was a no-brainer.
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Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.
My Story of When Google Voice Lost My Number Google Voice lost my number August 12th, 2012, at around 5pm central time. I was able to log into Google Voice and check my messages at around 1pm that …
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Ruby Trick Shots
This domain is for sale! Fast and easy shopping. Trusted and secure since 2005.
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Firefox debuts new developer toolbar
Firefox makes developing for the Web faster and easier with a unique Developer Command Line. The new tool provides easy keyboard control over Firefox Devel