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No need for `xargs` in this case, `find` has been able to take care of this for quite some time now, using `+` instead of `;`: find . -type f -exec perl -p -i -e 's#foo#bar#g' {} +…

It doesn't correspond to how _you_ say dates; I would write 11/03 for the date, and say "the eleventh of March", so it's internally consistent. Not trying to argue one way or the o…

I have a similar problem due to the whole "gmail.com" vs. "googlemail.com" thing that came about in Europe in the earlier days of Gmail. When I got my gmail account, Google gave me…

Only for some banks, e.g. Barclays. HSBC's version[1] does not require a card to use. [1]: https://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/contact-and-support/security-cent...

Do be aware though that this only works if HISTCONTROL is set to 'ignorespace' or 'ignoreboth' (for bash anyway). For zsh, you need to have HIST_IGNORE_SPACE set.

Looks good, I had previously used Dropbox for personal repositories, but now I might try using them for shared ones. It seems from a quick read of the design document [1] that the …

It's not exactly hard to do by hand: git add ... git commit --fixup $SHA git stash git rebase -i --autosquash $SHA~ git stash pop

I was really thrown by the ligatures in some of the command snippets (diff and lostfiles). Why do things manually have to be marked as dependencies? Is that because they were manuall…

This has reminded me of my old MP3 player, I think it was made by Archos, that had two shuffle modes: "shuffle" & "random". The "random" mode would happily play songs from the play…

Not for long, unfortunately[1]: On April 30, 2014, we announced the deprecation of the XMPP Chat API as part of the release of Platform API v2.0. The service and API this document …

You can just pull from someone's local copy, a git checkout is just like a remote (bare) repository that happens to have a tree.

A version control system with the feature set git has is necessarily complicated, this is not a bad thing. Forcing the complexity on the user is a bad thing, but git does not do th…

> If you spot a USB flash drive cemented into a wall or kerb, you may have stumbled across a Dead Drop, part of a global art project borrowing tricks from the world of espionage Or…

So this seems like an automatic version of flattr[1], except you get the perk of no adverts in return. What I wonder though is: what happens if I visit a site that I don't want to …

> The so-called “ow zone” is a zone that is hard to reach with your thumb, like corners of the screen. The image that goes along with this point demonstrates the areas that are har…

The site reports that it charges wirelessly, but the video lists the battery as optional - does this mean that on the non-battery version if I move my Mouse Box off the mat it'll s…

I have 127MB of Location History, trying to use this takes out my browser. It's a shame really, I bet that much data would make for some good visuals.

They missed a trick calling it 'funcgo' instead of 'gofunc'; just think of the tag line: gofunc yourself

You can create a new branch containing the pull request fairly easily.[1] It's just: git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCHNAME git checkout BRANCHNAME Edit: I see that MaikuMori[2] …

I've had some good experience with iodine in the past, it's been useful at airports and on trains to bypass captive portals. It's extremely variable in performance, and can sometim…

Sent! Sorry for the delay. I'm all out of invites now.

Thank you yarinb! Invite received. I now have two invites, who wants them? Edit: Sent one to lbr, I now have one left.

I may have to steal that alias, good tip. Ctrl-a/Ctrl-e are equivalent to Home/End (unless you're inside a screen session, which was a terrible choice of binding on their part).

!! is not at all pointless, "sudo !!" is much easier that Up, Ctrl-a, "sudo ".