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You know about AckMate, right? It's indispensable. (No find/replace, but on the upside, it's ridiculously fast.)

I'm loving the documentation: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/yaf-loader.clearlocalnamespace....

Sweet! I'll add that to the resources page.

Site author here. I welcome all feedback on the site! [There's more I'd love to write, but I found I was losing motivation to work on it in my Copious Spare Time(tm), so I thought …

I make daily use of GitX for visualizing the state of a repo, and it's got a pretty nice UI for building commits as well. (It's Mac-only, though.) Apparently there are several fork…

I've struggled with helping others learn git as well; you can see some of my thinking at ( http://think-like-a-git.heroku.com/#1 ) and ( http://confreaks.net/videos/612-cascadiarub…

For those who enjoyed this talk, Corey Donohoe gave an awesome presentation at Cascadia RubyConf that goes into more detail about what they use Hubot for, and also mentions deployi…

There seem to be enough of them to clog up I-5 on a daily basis.

"Your honor, did you see the way she was dressed? She was clearly asking for it." [Tags: sarcasm (if that weren't immediately obvious)]

I moved to Portland from California in 2001. I love it here, and can't imagine ever moving back. That being said, the big adjustment for me (and for many folks moving from further …

Also, this appears to suffer from what I like to call the "Razor-blade Singularity" fallacy: http://www.economist.com/node/5624861?story_id=5624861

Effort per interaction will only be zero when interactions require no cognitive overhead. In which case, why are we bothering with them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

There's also hackerbuddy.com, which exists to pair up wannabe hackers with wannabe mentors. Might not help you find someone local, though. For that, user groups are the way to go. …

The last such place I worked was in a relay service call center. It was right smack in the middle of your retail/food service to office/cubicle continuum. But yes, "organization" w…

I hadn't heard of "gem server" until you mentioned it.

How is it not HN material? This reminds me of the 2006 Malcolm Gladwell piece about "Million Dollar Murray" that showed up here last summer ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15…

Is there a correlation between "quality of work" and "hours [...] put in"?

If I had more upvotes, I'd give them to this statement. However, I'd be surprised if there weren't a nontrivial number of Rails developers who totally identify with that. The servi…

Never mind that demographic -- I'm a web developer, and I typed in the .com version when I tried to view the site on my iPhone. Doh! (And then the page load took 20+ seconds -- iPh…

With the exception that this is supposed to be, y'know, fun.

Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work in most input controls, and definitely work in the terminal.

That's an awfully bi chip on your shoulder. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) My gender and orientation is irrelevant to the argument, as are yours. I agree that scholarships for w…