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I hope that the author was taking liberties with technical details to make it read like a detective story. If that is how computer forensics really work, then the field is snake oi…

> Programming is an information technology, and being a technology facilitates greater efficiency. Which is not always a good thing. Sometimes the fact that a task is tedious or co…

I tried it several times, but IMO it is barely functional and ridiculous to configure. I know the developer does what they can, but Chrome seems to intentionally make it difficult …

I recently switched back to FF after a year or more using Chrome. I don't care all that much about performance, what drove me back to firefox was intolerable levels of ads.

> And it isn't hard to see the author's torment at being forced to do this to her father. That guilt, torment, and second guessing of yourself is one of the terrible things that re…

> Oh, and she refuses to take her medication because she’s convinced that they will ruin her liver. Until fairly recently doctors had no idea how to measure minimum effective doses…

Allow a shell variable to control output record and field separators. Default to space and newline if nothing is specified. ORS=: OFS=, ls -l # rw-r--r--:1:uname:gname:1025:Jun 1:s…

bash, ssh, screen, rsync, cron, gcc, perl/python/ruby, X, and excellent terminal emulation. Treat cygwin as just another unix variant and it will go pretty far. Windows native apps…

There was a short window about 10 years ago where OSX was the best unix workstation, no contest. But cygwin is really good these days, so good that the Apple premium cost and batsh…

I dislike advertising itself as much as the next engineer. I won't even attempt to defend that position with logic, it's a visceral preference. But I especially wouldn't want to wo…

> Google Wallet isn't doing too great. Why? No support. You NEED to be able to reach a human being to clear up problems with credit cards. I used google wallet to pay for a google …

> We need a structured approach to the serious acquisition of relevant skills, not tinkering Because if anything is proven to get kids enthused about learning, it's a structured ap…

The thing that is really awesome about the testing environment is that is makes it immediately obvious when a module on cpan has been abandoned. That makes it easy to use a cpan mo…

I was annoyed by the page turn buttons the first time I used them. But the button placement works really well for reading while lolling around, it's actually one of the ways in whi…

I figured that second one was mocking the papal bull laying out the rules for leap years. In your face, 16th century papacy!

I think we can safely say Apple has dropped their party manners and shown the knives. Unfortunately android is the only possible competitor I see, and the carriers have pretty much…

> "far too many people are confident in their ability to die gallantly" Ain't you heard? Dying is easy, comedy is hard. :D But overconfidence aside, I have a harder time gauging ac…

Men are the oppressor gender and therefore cannot be the victims of discrimination. Nice try, you dirty misogynist.

I often try the trendy languages and tools, just to see what the fuss is about. It's astonishing how fast these things seem to flame out and cycle. Like "people" magazine for techn…

You can treat it like an anthropological exercise, and try to really figure out the values, interests, and motivations of someone who bores you to tears. Just don't do it with a sn…

yy 100 p or map { print "hello, world\n" } (1..100); or a goto or maybe even disgusting abuse of try/catch Depending on how far I wanted to tweak the interviewer's nose. :D

A line oriented xargs could have been built in from day one. A pair of shell variables honored by commands that let you specify output wrappers or separators would have been nice t…

smalltalk is the Anglican Church. Historically important, but nobody really believes in it anymore. If javascript is lisp with C's trappings, then the religious equivalent of javas…

Second on that. I find that pythonbrew fits the way I actually work with multiple installs much better than virtualenv (even with virtualenvwrapper) does.

I'm astonished at the finding showing baldness having no significance for men.