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Any way to get the dark/terminal theme on Basic HTML? I am not getting any theme option in Settings. I used to have the Terminal theme for years before the new GMail. Standard Gmai…

How do you progress beyond testing out "alert" on your console? I've tried this on both Firefox and Safari on Mac OS and I don't get anything beyond checking out the console. ???

Linus Torvalds used/uses micro-emacs. (off topic, he used/uses Pine/alpine for email).

I have been using gishpuppy for several years. It actually works. It's a free service, you create an email for any website that asks for one. There are addons/extension for firefox…

Try `rename` http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename If on OSX: brew install rename

Tried it out. I keep `scp`ing a file, or editing it using `vim scp`, but on browsing or publishing, I get an "Article does not exist".

Could you please explain why this is the greatest? Or how it compares to the other youtube downloaders? Does it allow selection of resolution ? Does it allow downloading only audio…

I moved from OMZ to Prezto for this reason (its a fork of oh my). But prezto is slow too. The only recourse I think is to go back to a clean zsh and build your own .zshrc. There ar…

Your line about only one mirror. The other mirror is optional. I bought a Maruti about fifteen years back when i returned from the US. Was shocked that there was no second mirror. …

I use vifm off and on for moving files from one dir to another. (IIRC there were some issues with the latest version on OSX, perhaps sourceforge does not have the latest, and brew …

1. Yes, I meditate. As of now I don't do sitting eyes-closed meditations regularly (I should). I keep up the state of not-attaching to thought, of remaining in "presence" (also cal…

What would happen if we encountered very advanced beings from another world ? How would we determine whether they were robots or really living/conscious. They would talk, they migh…

`z` is good. `autojmp` is similar. Also try `cetus` ( `gem install cetus`) and `zfm` (written in zsh, https://github.com/rkumar/zfm ).

We all have many horror stories but still I hesitate to change. All these ISP's are cheats who make glowing promises but don't deliver. I remember how I was being charged daily for…

I use a command line program bugzyrb for personal projects. https://github.com/rkumar/bugzyrb You could also try taskwarrior.

Nice article about perl and its history, and Rakudo, but still doesn't explain why author loves perl.

So when I create a new branch, do stuff and want to merge back to master, I should rebase instead ? (assuming nothing else was done such as pushing elsewhere etc).

Vim in the terminal (along with tmux). Been using vim since about 1980. Favorite language currently is ruby, earlier it was C.

kat.ph has a guy called Gandalf, german composer, instrumental easy listening, really good for coding with.

I have it slightly worse than the OP. I don't drink, smoke or eat non-vegetarian food. Which basically means no partying and almost no socializing beyond saying hello. Which also m…

Looks interesting. - How about programs that are using other gems. What is the coverage of the standard libraries? - Does it over enough to write command line programs using fileut…

The page says: > NOTE: This project is experimental in nature. Any representations regarding authentication or authority should be taken with a grain of salt. This project has no a…

This is precisely what I came in to post. I've heard people in India talking of cleaning their toilets with Coke better than pesticides -- don't know about cost since I don't drink…

vifm is good. If you like vim movements, you can try zfm (its written in shell - https://github.com/rkumar/zfm ), and if you like the default hint mode, try 'cetus' -- on the same …

I found ranger slow. I use cetus (its fast and you can select files with a hotkey ( https://github.com/rkumar/cetus ). There's also a shell version which has a lot more functionali…