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broken software I hate: all web browsers, thunderbird, gimp, microCommander, calibre, itunes, iphoto, cyberduck, skype,
git is so reliable that I forget that reliability used to be a problem in version control (I've had to reconstruct CVS and Subversion repositories that got corrupted via various bugs and quirks of the system). It's also pretty fast. SQLite is an automatic, and easy, answer. It almost goes without saying at this point, I guess. vim is everywhere. I like knowing I can always run it no matter where I am or what server/V…
>Inbox I've had a heap of issues with not receiving notifications for emails that were miscategorised.. or just never popped up on my phone... I check gmail on my desktop every few days just to see if I missed something.
Trying not to pick fan favorites/well knowns - SecureCRT - SSH and more client (win) Quicksilver - OSX launcher Pathfinder - OSX finder replacement Notepad++ - Win text editor Gawor's LDAP Browser - still my favorite (Java) Cog - OSX Music player (ala winamp) GCalTookit - Doing Google Calendar Magic (Java) Plex + ShowRSS + Catch - Netflix but better Synology - Their NAS platform is pretty amazing. You can do just abo…
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IME, the most important key to Latex is setting up your environment so you can have a fast turnaround time between writing some markup and seeing what it looks like (essentially, getting a "Latex REPL"). There are a bunch of different ways to do this, you'll have to pick what's best for you. On Macs I tend to use Sublime Text (substitute with your editor of choice) with a macro to invoke pdfTeX; on Windows I use TeXs…
On Linux, I do the following: while inotifywait *.tex; do sleep 0.2 && pdflatex main.tex && killall -HUP mupdf; done This will, when a .tex file is written, wait a moment until all disk IO is done, then run pdflatex and trigger a reload in my PDF viewer (some also do that automatically when the .pdf file is changed). The only annoyance is that big .tex files (esp. Beamer presentations) may take long to compile, which…
Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…
> Edit: Another Windows tool is Notepad++. I have not seen the likes in Linux when it comes to robustness. It couldn't even open a 1.2 GB text file when I tried it yesterday. On a 32GB system. Seriously?
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Just fyi, Shift + Option + Command + V pastes unformatted text.
i don't have that many fingers
Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…
When I just want a quick peek at a binary file on Linux I use `hexdump -C filename | less`.
Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…
Does anyone know how everything work? Does it hook into the NTFS filesystem with special apis? The indexing is insanely fast. I wonder how they make it happen.