Worthy personal cheat-sheet for own and others use. A good idea though.
Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
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#142I don't understand the enthusiasm for this or the rampant forking going on. Most of these fall firmly under "let me google that for you." How do I check my Ubuntu version? How do I split a tmux window? How do I expand a clojure macro? Repeat for 300 more easily google-able questions... Actually I just realized, maybe I'm too old. If that's the case, here's a great tool: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+check+my+Ubuntu+v…
1. Usually you need to look through multiple posts to find your answer. It's still quick, but remembering you wrote up about it before and searching for it and seeing your more precise note about it is faster.
2. I've been using mine to also keep track of tools I encounter but don't have time to investigate, or for hotkeys or features in specific applications that I didn't realize were there before. I just took a quick glance at my old notes and was reminded about a feature in XCode that I had completely forgotten about since I wrote the note.
3. It's great for a refresher before diving back into a language you've had on the backburner for awhile, and/or before going in for interviews where you know you're going to be quizzed on random knowledge from past languages you've used before but maybe not recently.
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#143I have been taking (plain text) notes for many years. My approach is to write down immediately everything I figure out. The biggest issue I have is to retrieve notes effectively. And to be faster creating them. I started experimenting with how to make the whole process better and have built http://codingbrain.com. It's basically a better search, copy-n-paste, history tool that works on local markdown files.
My other idea I'm currently working on is to provide a different kind of bookmarking service that gives you an option to write down what you have learned from that bookmark. I think one of the best way to get better is to always try to repeat from memory what I have learned. The service is supposed to compare my summary with the original content, maybe offer some Anki style repetition training etc
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#145What does TIL stand for?
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#146What does TIL stand for?
Today I Learned - from a popular subreddit /r/todayilearned/
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I like it but upgrading ruby to the required 2.3 from 1.9 that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 turned out to be a daunting process. The 2.3 build was at least 15 min with several errors, and then bundler wouldn't work. I wiped everything ruby and will try again with RVM. It seems like over kill for such a simple app. I am not a RoR guy and my first impression is not very good compared to other server apps I've installed, or…
I've had great success using Brightbox's Ruby PPAs https://launchpad.net/~brightbox/+archive/ubuntu/ruby-ng . Might want to give them a try first.
This worked! Just a couple of problems. Hashrocket needs dev version of Ruby and pg wouldn't build, but StackOverflow told me I needed to install libpq-dev. Then I had to install postgres, but wasn't hard.
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#149I extracted a static site out of this and put it up at http://til.zammu.in/ . This kind of content is great for Static Sites as people can easily contribute to them using Github Pull Requests.
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#150When I learn something, I ask a question on Stack Overflow and I answer it myself, which is perfectly allowed and encouraged. The advantage with putting it on Stack Overflow is that I get corrections or better answers over time.