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I'm currently awaiting delivery of components to assemble an ErgoDox. The later variations show here display an encouraging similarity to a lot of the ErgoDox's features, although …

This is gorgeous.

If he liked Hitchhiker's Guide and Kurt Vonnegut, you should give him The Sirens of Titan .

https://github.com/harukizaemon/hamster is apparently quite good.

Ah yes, the day we sold our bus.

It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember a hilarious scene where Jack Bristow is talking to someone in an IM-like window; his choice of text is giant red Comic Sans and h…

Create commits using `add -p` up to the point that the current state of the work tree is fully committed. (You can `reset HEAD^` if you need to add some stuff that you do not want …

Well, it looks like the overwhelming majority of web programming is done in PHP/ASP, so I guess it's not the case so much for web developers. Although I'd be amazed if Go won over …

I think many (if not the majority of) programmers are still using strongly typed programming languages.

That FIFO temporary file is the file descriptor of the subprocess' stdout. You're accessing it through a pipe. It's most useful when you want to diff the result of multiple command…

If you are using a DSLR in burst mode it probably won't choose a variety of apertures and shutter speeds. It will determine what it believes to be a correct exposure for the scene …

I'm not too sure how useful the DoF preview feature is, in what common circumstance do you recommend I use it? Also, you shouldn't restrict yourself to the centre AF point; focus-a…

That's a pretty solid butchering of the design of daringfireball.net

The other point I made was that even if they were offering "green" VPSs it doesn't mean they're going to have a "green" and "non-green" power cables running in to the building and …

In all seriousness, that's retarded. If you honestly want to be "green" you can make changes to your personal behaviour (such as using CFLs, recycled packaging etc.) and not rely o…

Pen & paper for rapid prototyping, then start mocking up with actual code. This isn't 1999, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble than messing around with Photoshop layers. If you …