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There are a lot more bees in a hive than in a pod of whales or dolphins, we're talking potentially many tens of thousands of bees per hive. I think that's the qualifier here, scale…

It really depends on what type of programming you and your friend are talking about, it may be worth clarifying this with him. Though from personal experience I would say with most…

Leaving microsoft to change the world - http://www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com/ Born to Run - http://borntorun.org/

A little while back I got an email from someone using this feature to send out his résumé! Quite an ingenious use I thought, find all X developers near Y and send them a friendly f…

> - We keep a local settings file for each environment, and those /are/ versioned. We have a /settings_local directory which contains each of the variants (localdev/dev/staging/df/…

> -Set up a local configuration file (not managed by version control) and a base configuration file with all the settings that are immutable. Import the local config file within se…

Something like the vim command-t plugin ( https://wincent.com/products/command-t/ ) can make filenavigation very fast. That, the already mentioned C-j, C-k, C-h, C-l bindings, nerd…

If you've not got much experience within an industry, it's really easy to overestimate the average skill level of others in that industry. It sounds like your problem isn't your la…

Chris Eppstein (develops compass) does a great job breaking down the why (for tools like sass in general) here => http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-styleshe...

Have you written up any notes about your conventions/system in org-mode? I'd be really interested to read more from you about this, as I'm using org-mode as well, and it's really h…

I didn't stick around after reading the title when the youtube page loaded, however I'm pretty sure it was Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up.

What an awesome RSS feed icon they have, if you haven't already, try hovering over it a few times (and then a few more.)

http://orgmode.org/ is a brilliant tool for this kind of thing. And you don't need to know emacs to get started. If you're unfamiliar with emacs then getting it setup does require …

Just after Christmas I started taking Salsa Dancing lessons, and have since expanded into Tango, Cha-Cha, and Merengue. Hell of a lot of fun, and I've met some interesting people a…

Yes, here's my poor-man's standing workspace: http://imgur.com/LGArE.jpg I've found it works really well, it affords me lots more storage space, and (after the first week of workin…

Haven't read the article, I just like the picture... http://plpatterns.com/post/307982918/its-hard-to-change-a-li...

Apparently there is an auto responder set up, to notify you if have found the correct address.

Got a confirmation, but it said that I missed something, and so it continues!