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What do you think of GitX? | ddd: XCode integration! |
Good looking news/social media sites? | dshah: I like http://mixx.com |
HN on the iPhone? | aaadddeeeaaa: http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/Combine the "readable" feed + Google Reader = iPhone HN |
What do you think of GitX? | pilif: I'm using GitX daily, though only for looking at the history.I would love to see blame support though. |
What are your productivity hacks? | mdemare: 1. Turn off sound/visual notifications for email.
2. End long running compilations/tests scripts with 'say "compilation done"' as a cue to stop browsing the web. |
What are your productivity hacks? | msie: While playing Daft Punk's 'Veridis Quo':
1. Read about Lisp.
2. Open XCode.
3. Code in Objective-C.
:P |
What are your productivity hacks? | iterationx: control your thoughts. no daydreaming.turn off the music. |
What are your productivity hacks? | Mongoose: 1. Remove Facebook from my bookmarks toolbar
2. Restrict myself to one time-leeching website (HN, Stack Overflow, Google Reader) open at any given time
3. Keep IM, IRC, and Twitter in a separate space so that I have control of when I see updates. |
What are your productivity hacks? | jamesbritt: I've been gradually building an app to help me do a form of time-boxing. Plus have about 5 different ways to set reminders for myself.One thing I got from the the Getting Things Done universe is that having a reliable way to offload notes, thoughts, plans, etc. is essentially, because it means you can safe... |
What are your productivity hacks? | Randai: A proper amount of sleep, say 8 hours is usually creamy for myself, your mileage may vary.
For myself at least, I find that if I don't get proper sleep that the performance lost over the awake time just isn't worth skimping on sleep. That and I feel like shit. |
HN on the iPhone? | alaskamiller: We're working on something cool with Hacker News, iPhones, and SearchYC.com that we're going to launch real soon. |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | iterationx: I think you would enjoy the book "Megatrends"
http://www.amazon.com/Megatrends-Ten-Directions-Transforming... |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | whimsy: I'm using rt right now. I like using its interface, but there are others on my team who never log in through the web; they update tickets solely via e-mail.It would be nice if they were able to change metadata of the ticket (new, open, resolved, etc) via e-mail. |
Graduate early? | PieSquared: Well, to everyone, thanks for all the responses. I really appreciate.What I've decided is that I'm going to take the safest road I can. I have the option to apply to colleges, then wait for a response, and afterwards decide whether or not I want to graduate (or drop out). If I am satisfied with colleges' re... |
Has Apple stopped approving apps? | cesare: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/apple-holding-rock-and-ro... |
Has Apple stopped approving apps? | MichaelApproved: You can see the pause in the apps over the past few days
http://www.yappler.com/Apple-iPhone-App-Store-Stats/Apple has also changed some of how items link to each other under the hood. |
What are your productivity hacks? | yanowitz: Modified GTD.1. Instead of a weekly review, I assign every task a date -- that's the date I want to next think about it (either to do it, decide it's no longer important or to set a next time I want to think about it).2. Every morning, without fail, process my inbox (Todo and email), assign dates to things,... |
What are your productivity hacks? | 4buot: 1. Work on problems I care about. |
What do you think of GitX? | olifante: I love GitX and use the commit view all the time. The visual diff makes it so simple to see what you have changed.I don't bother teaching coworkers that much about command-line git now, I just point them to GitX, which suffises for 90% of their interactions with git.One simple thing I'd like to have is the ab... |
What do you think of GitX? | esad: I know this fits probably better into separate tool, but one thing I still miss about TortoiseSVN are the statistics.Although these were very basic, still it was fun to see from time to time how long the project has been going on, how many commits per day you had and other information porn.Anyway, GitX is a wonde... |
Review my web app, thatPoll.com | JacobAldridge: Good concept, and very simple to use (which I believe is more important than web design, at least in the early stages).Not having a website, I can't test the usability. I imagine you might encounter some resistance to inserting the look & feel of your polls onto the look & feel of their site, but you're ... |
Review my web app, thatPoll.com | maxstoller: http://www.thatpoll.com |
What do you think of GitX? | thelibrarian: I agree with everyone else here - GitX is very niceThe features I'd like to see (in descending order of importance):- Remote repository interaction - push/pull etc. (this is the only thing stopping me from using GitX full time).- Merging- Cherry-picking- Interactive rebase |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | herval: augmented reality on contact lenses (or anything as intimate as them) - no more clunky cellphones with screens: everything right there in front of your eyes (and the voices inside your head). Introducing the iYou.edit: that's my take for something for the NEXT 5-10 years - re-reading the question, it makes me w... |
What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years? | herval: Funny to notice that the Internet is already "an extremely important business" - but it's still NOT profitable for the vast majority of people (quite the contrary, if you analyze how many businesses/industries are getting dismantled as technology spreads its wings and everything goes digital)... |
How do you wake up? | brandnewly: Go to bed and wake up at the same time every night/day. Also, avoid using 'snooze' and taking naps. If you're not used to it, then you really have to be determined at first, but there's definitely a noticeable difference after a week or two. If you're consistent, your alarm will become obsolete. |
How do you wake up? | badtoken: I've learned (and adapted) to the fact that I just can't get any reasonable work done in the first 3 hours or so of the day. I can ingest massive amounts of caffeine, go run a marathon, or whatever, but my brain just needs a few hours to get up to speed. |
How do you wake up? | focalpoint: Coffee and a grapefruit. |
How do you wake up? | dimarco: snooze my iphone about 3 times, zombie walk to the fridge for some orange juice and then a shower. it's not recommended. |
How do you wake up? | neuromanta: Try to get used to waking up always the same time. Every time I wake up early in the morning, I kiss my girlfriend, then get up, and after the bathroom I do some workout. Nothing serius, just to make myself fresher. And then, for about an hour, I work on my private project(s), until my girlfriend gots up to... |
How do you wake up? | thedevelopment: First alarm: iPod plugged into a stereo playing something pleasant. (7.20am)Second alarm: iPhone alarm 40 minutes later. I now mega-loathe the "Harp" alarm tone. (8.00am)Third alarm: Girlfriend kicking me out of bed between 5-10 minutes later. (~8.10am)Works like a charm every time. |
How do you wake up? | FreeRadical: Live at home and my Mum wakes me up. |
How do you wake up? | jacobroufa: If it's a good day and I'm paying attention to my body, I just get up whenever my I first wake up, usually before my alarm goes off. Sometimes I think it is the cats that wake me, other times I think I wake the cats... I can never tell. If it's a bad day I don't get up right away and then proceed to sleep t... |
HN on the iPhone? | alanthonyc: I put the phone in landscape mode and just read away. I haven't noticed any major usability issues, aside from when entering comments. |
How do you wake up? | cakesy: I haven't used an alarm in about 10 years, and always manage to wake up at the correct time, even if it is 5am. My girlfriend is always amazed. I get up, have a shower, then go straight to work. I can be out of the house in 10 minutes. I find my housemates strange, the ones who fool around in the mornings havin... |
Review my web app, thatPoll.com | AndrewDucker: Nice design.Sadly, not usable on Livejournal, because that doesn't allow iframes (for security reasons). |
How do you wake up? | michaelfairley: Two alarms: One within arms reach, and another that I have to get up for, set 1 minute later than the close one. Always make sure you have an alarm out of arms reach from your bed. |
How do you wake up? | taitems: Sidenote: Mega annoyance. Why does the iPhone not wake for an alarm. I think pretty much every other phone in existance has nailed this? |
How do you wake up? | rmanocha: Set a recurring alarm on my phone, snooze it a couple of times, head to the restroom, freshen up a bit and go play squash for an hour. Come back, take a shower, have breakfast and then get to work. |
How do you wake up? | grizzydot: I've noticed I don't need an alarm to wake up. If I keep my blinds open, the sunlight along w/ any ambient noise always wakes me up after about 7-8 hours of sleep. |
How do you wake up? | andyjenn: I have a small 3 year-old walk into my bedroom ~6am every day and jump up and down on the end of the bed saying, I want to have breakfast/watch Bob the Builder/brush the baby's teeth..Funnily enough, this perfect alarm-clock never fails to wake me up! |
How do you wake up? | gwern: How do I wake up?I realize the inherent nonexistence of all entities and how they are all impermanent, and thus that all striving is striving for temporary results; the only true achievement is to dissolve one's karma and be liberated from the Wheel of Rebirth, never again to be born & suffer.Then I have some te... |
What are your productivity hacks? | mahmud: 1) ifconfig wlan0 down2) No matter what, I always sit down at my desk at 10AM and fire up Emacs first. Even if I don't know what I am doing, as soon as the project builds and I scan the first few lines of code, yesterday's hacking session comes back to me and I resume work. |
Has Apple stopped approving apps? | hboon: I noticed it sometimes comes out in bursts (which is terrible if you want to get on the most recently updated chart). No idea why. |
How do you wake up? | bendtheblock: I have one of those alarm clocks that lights up the whole room over a 30 minute period - that makes it easier to get up in Winter. It also plays the radio gradually louder. I also have my iPhone alarm set on my desk "just in case..." |
How do you wake up? | Jem: Alarm goes off at 7:22 (for some reason the snooze uses 8 min intervals - so if I'm tired I'll have 1 snooze until 7:30 otherwise I'm straight up). Pee, puke (morning sickness), shower, get dressed, breakfast.I don't have any problems getting out of bed. |
How do you wake up? | oomkiller: I become conscious sometime in the afternoon, take a quick look at my phone for any missed calls/e-mails/text messages etc, and if they need immediate attention, I pop open my macbook pro and go to work. If there are no critical issues, I usually jump in the shower and "meditate" for 30 minutes to an hour. ... |
How do you wake up? | rsaarelm: At 6 AM, after 8.5 hours of sleep and after a sunrise alarm clock has been getting brighter for about half an hour. Then I make breakfast and coffee and try to have an uninterrupted 2 hours of working on personal projects before going to work. |
How do you wake up? | movix: Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again. |
Best Unix Tricks? | jacquesm: It's a great kill-ur unix tip but you should never fall for it: :(){ :|:& };
Oh, the temptation... if you're thinking of cutting & pasting that into the shell of your machine google for 'bash fork bomb' first, I've left off the final ':' to set it off.Anyway, on a more serious note, after an installation ... |
Best Unix Tricks? | aseeon: http://www.commandlinefu.com |
How do you wake up? | jambalaya: My alarm goes off at 7:55 pm. Work starts at 8 pm so there isn't much time for messing around. This is by design. I work support and sign in, start work-related tasks etc. |
Best Unix Tricks? | nudded: !!:s/sl/ls
executes last command but replaces first occurence of sl with ls. (can also be written as ^sl^ls) !!:gs/sl/ls
same as above, but now global replace |
Best Unix Tricks? | bohr99: ctrl + rStarts a search through your history file. |
Best Unix Tricks? | tfh: set -o vi # vi like behaviour of the command line.
Use "/" to search through the history, "y" to copy, "p" to paste etc.. cat > somefile.txt <<EOF # quickly creates a text file
Type EOF in a new line to finish. |
Best Unix Tricks? | papaf: This is more a general hint than a single tip. Years ago I tried to improve my Unix skills by doing everything at home from the command line -- burning CDs, playing music, copying trees etc. I learnt a lot but this exercise was much less convenient and more mentally demanding than using a gui. Recently I have be... |
How do you wake up? | alanl: My radio alarm clock goes off at about 8:30am. The radio slowly soothes me awake, so that I gradually wake over the next 30 mins or so Using this method puts me in a better mood more consistently than when I used to get up immediately and/or earlier.
I would love to get up early and work on some personal proje... |
Best Unix Tricks? | jrockway: My tip: pushd without an arg pushes the current directory onto the stack, and then switches to what popd would have. Hence, repeated invocations of pushd let you cycle between two directories without thinking.$CDPATH is also amusing: $ mkdir /foo/bar/baz
$ cd baz
bash: cd: baz: no such file or directory... |
Best Unix Tricks? | subbu: cd - (Go back to previous working directory)sudo !! (Run the last command as root):w !sudo tee % (Save a readonly file in VIM)> tmp.file (Empty a file)cmd !$ (Run cmd with previous commands arguments)They are just some of my favorites. |
How do you wake up? | phn1x: I find when I wake up at the same time each day I do a lot better. Weekends completely throw me off cause I can usually sleep in until 7, sometimes at the latest 8.I have a few methods of waking up.1. Cell phone alarm set to 5 a.m, this is hit or miss. Sometimes I actually wake up a minute before the alarm even ... |
Best Unix Tricks? | spahl: I love the '-exec' flag for find |
Best Unix Tricks? | ZeroGravitas: > make me a sandwich
what? make it yourself
> sudo !!
okay |
How do you wake up? | hova: mpd + cron + some hard rock... i'm a heavy sleeper :D |
Best Unix Tricks? | JoelMcCracken: screen is infinitely useful. |
How do you wake up? | zoba: Usually about 5 minutes before my real alarm goes off... |
Best Unix Tricks? | acg: On OS X pbcopy and pbpaste are useful for working with clipboard data. Copy data from a web-page or whatever, manipulate it on the command-line to get what you want. Putting reasonably large files in the clipboard can be useful too.For example: curl http://news.bbc.co.uk/ | pbcopy # copies a web-page to clipboar... |
Best Unix Tricks? | mfukar: man man |
How do you wake up? | carterschonwald: Lots of sunlight in the face, then about 20 minutes later an alarm to unwrap the last bits of stupor |
How do you wake up? | yef: Sleep in a room with a window facing east, get up when the alarm goes off, drink a cold glass of water, take some deep breaths, hop on the computer and drink a cup of coffee, then go for a run. By the time I'm back from my run, I'm "very awake". |
What are your productivity hacks? | sireat: 1. I check e-mail once a day(could probably move to a weekly schedule although I don't think I could ever attain Knuth like batching prowess).2. I turn off cell phone when working on something important. |
Best Unix Tricks? | silentbicycle: Read man pages and "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. It's old, but conveys the design principles behind Unix, particularly how to write little tools that work well with all the others. "The Art of Unix Programming" is also good, despite Eric S. Raymond's getting on a soapbox all t... |
Best Unix Tricks? | rp2: xargs -d '\n'
as in find * -type f | egrep -i '\.(gif|jpg|png)$' | xargs -d '\n' identify
I used to use find -print0 | xargs -0 but sometimes you want to insert filters in between or the file names aren't from find. |
Best Unix Tricks? | smithjchris: echo "for(;;){fork();}">f.c&&cc f.c&&./a.out |
Best Unix Tricks? | ianbishop: Pipes, grep and such come in handy in many applications.For example:ps -e | grep processnamewill grab the pid of any process so that you can subsequently kill it.sudo !! (run last command as sudo) is great too when you forget to type sudo on a regular basis like me. |
Best Unix Tricks? | fogus: I use this to synch a directory with another: tar cf - * | (cd <dest-dir> ; tar xf - ) |
How do you wake up? | wglb: Haven't used an alarm for i don't know how long. Wake up at desired time, although often wake up earlier and try to sleep a little more.Then walk to the next room and log on. |
Best Unix Tricks? | sant0sk1: I wrote a bash function yesterday which allows you to cd ...
to move up two directories instead of having to cd ../..
Want to move up 4 directories? cd .....
Pretty useful, imo. Check it outhttp://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/cd-up-up-up/ |
What do you want/need from a bug tracking system? | moe: A crossbreed between MantisBT (search/filtering power, subtickets/ticket-trees, "direct feel"), redmine (Interface cleanlyness, Gantt-Charts, SCM integration) and perhaps PivotalTracker (Ease of use, the "velocity" idea).I could write a book about what rocks and sucks for each, but the take-home is that neither do... |
How do you wake up? | Flemlord: I leave my curtains open and wake up around 6:30 when the sun starts shining. No alarm clock. Then I work out for 30 minutes, eat a light breakfast, and walk downstairs to work. |
Best Unix Tricks? | juvenn: keep hacking on what not work, and diving into detail. I began my Linux life exactly one year ago, when I bought myself the 1st laptop. It's rewarding and joyfull |
Best Unix Tricks? | philh: nc lets you talk directly to a remote host, and strace allows you to eavesdrop on an arbitrary process' communication with a remote host (or with anything, really).Actually, I rather hope there's something better than strace for the latter. But it works. |
Best Unix Tricks? | uggedal: My most useful zsh functions: # a visual recursive list of all files and directories
function tree()
{
find . | sed -e 's/[^\/]*\//|--/g' -e 's/-- |/ |/g' | $PAGER
}
# recursive text search (ack is also nifty)
function f()
{
find . -name '*' | xargs grep -l $1
}
# recursive search... |
How do you wake up? | sp4rki: I take a bath ALWAYS around 11pm to 1 am on weekdays and wake up at 5:30am... Kiss my girlfriend goodbye, get dressed and head to the office. Her iphone and my blackberry both have alarms at 5:30ish. The reason I take a bath always before sleeping is because although I wake up at that time, I am really just asl... |
Best Unix Tricks? | gcv: 1. Check out z: http://github.com/rupa/z. It's a pretty nice productivity booster for flipping between different directories. It's quite easy to port to zsh, also.2. Learn to use the editor modes on your shell. If you use Emacs mode in zsh, for example, things like transient-mark mode work with all the standard Em... |
Review my web app, thatPoll.com | NoBSWebDesign: That looks like an excellent idea and very well executed. I really liked that it literally only took 1 click to vote (as opposed to usual where you have to click the radio input, and then click a submit button).I have two suggestions for it:1. Make it an embeddable javascript widget instead of an iframe.... |
Best Unix Tricks? | jdoliner: grep -l textregex fileregexprint the names of all the files satisfying fileregex with text satisfying textregex. Nice if you need to find out where a function is defined. |
How do you wake up? | spyrosk: If I have an obligation in the morning my girlfriend wakes me up, since she is the one who hears my alarm. I am a really heavy sleeper and usually require something around 200 dB to wake me up. I used to have my speakers do the job but the risk of breaking up one morning grew daily so I stopped.. Plus, I think... |
How do you wake up? | _x0t: I set several alarms (alternating cell phone and clock): 0645, 0650, 0655, 0700, 0715, 0730, 0750. All of which I'm nearly immune to now. I've started setting my phone alarm as my actual ringer so I can trick myself into thinking someone is calling me.If my wife wakes up before me, she usually kicks me out of b... |
How do you wake up? | justinchen: iPhone alarm set for 6:30am.Usually try to get some fresh air, eat some breakfast, go through RSS reader, then get to work. |
Best Unix Tricks? | decklin: C-x C-e to open up the current command in $EDITOR. For previous commands, fc N M where N and M are numbers or search strings (opens the range of commands in your editor). |
Best Unix Tricks? | jefffoster: GNU Global integrates well with the shell and allows you to do such neat stuff as "less -t func" to see the definition of func. |
Best Unix Tricks? | lallysingh: Named bookmarks and a jump-to function: function bookmark () {
echo -n "Name of bookmark (no spaces): "
read BKNAME
if [ -e ~/.bkmarks/$BKNAME ]
then
echo -n "Overwrite? "
read CONFIRM
if [ "x$CONFIRM" != "xyes" ] && [ "x$CONFIRM" != "xy" ]
then
return 0;
... |
Best Unix Tricks? | arghnoname: A lot of the tricks here are using the shell builtins. Pretty much all the nifty stuff you can do with that are in your shell man page. If you are using bash, try typing man bash. Read it. There is also stuff in there about scripting bash. This is worth knowing, because short one liners are very nice for mo... |
Best Unix Tricks? | dryicerx: Using the .ssh configuration file to save host specific options (~/.ssh/config). Never again long ssh commands to connect to your frequently connecting list. Host home home.example.com
HostName home.example.com
Port 12345
User dryicerx
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/somekey.pem
LocalForw... |
Best Unix Tricks? | jimmybot: It's not a bash tip, but if you want something that generally makes command line navigation easier without the need for heavy amounts of customization or memorization, you might consider using the Friendly interactive shell (Fish shell).Smart history-based autocompletion, advanced tab completion, optional cd,... |
Best Unix Tricks? | skwiddor: import kremvax /net /net
Plan9 doesn't need nat |
Best Unix Tricks? | aarongough: One of the little things that it took me a while to find out about: echo '2^16' | bc
65536
'bc' is a complete calculator language interpreter that also functions quite nicely as a simple calculator. If you need to do any heavy lifting check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_programming_language |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | jbenz: Greetings. I was the interactive designer (among other jobs) for Customized Graphics. We're trying to be the Cafe Press or Zazzle for custom vinyl products, including Giant Wall Graphics, Bumper Stickers, and Banners.I work for a small company called eRetailing in Columbus, Ohio. Customized Graphics is a treme... |
Best Unix Tricks? | vijaydev: To copy/move/rename files with suffixes quickly: cp /home/foo/abc.cpp{,-old}
equivalent to cp /home/foo/abc.cpp /home/foo/abc.cpp-old |
How do you wake up? | Mankhool: The cat needs an insulin injection every morning before she is allowed to have breakfast. She crawls up onto my chest and paws me in the face until I wake up (no joke). When she first started doing this - years ago - I would keep my eyes shut and pretend I was asleep, but to no avail. The moment she knows tha... |
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