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Re: Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

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Post by ntonozzi »

notduncansmith wrote: post #5

A Mac app called Alfred has saved me countless hours. It comes with a clipboard manager (extremely useful), and the ability to create custom workflows/hotkeys, which I use to switch back and forth between Skype, Chrome, and Sublime. iTerm2 already has a hotkey feature built in, but if it didn't I'd have made one (takes Following Gary Bernhardt's advice, mapping Caps Lock to a modifier key (he recommends Control I thi…

Where can I find hop?

All my search results talk about traceroutes.

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Post by pennies »

Every time a penny passes through your hands, stick it up your ass and then spend it. It’s a long-term strategy. I’ve been doing this for 11 years now. Every day for the past 11 years, I’ve stuck $30 dollars in pennies up my ass. I use them for everything: cab rides, movie theaters, groceries. That’s a lot of ass pennies I’ve got out there, my friend. And here’s where the magic comes in: When I meet with someone who intimidates me, who put me on edge, a real hard-ass, I just think to myself, "They’ve probably handled one of my ass pennies." In fact they probably have one in their pocket right then. That just seems to give me the upper hand. I mean, hey, I haven’t touched anything that was in their ass.

Re: Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

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Post by saurabh »

1. Synergy

I use Synergy to use my netbook's keyboard and touchpad for my workstation. I just zoom everything up on the workstation and lay back on the bed and code. Very cool. Bash alias on both systems is "synergize"

The next thing that I am going to do is switch the server and client roles automatically so that when I am using the workstation I would be able to control my netbook.

2. Tmux

I ssh to the workstation from my netbook and attach to a running Tmux session. Feels like working locally.

3. Redshift

Decrease brightness in the evening, I have a bash alias called "soothing" which does the job.

4. Wake on Lan

Start the workstation in the bedroom if I am in another room. Bash alias "wakywaky"

5. Map Caps Lock to Esc

Just do it. Useful if you are a vimmer.

6. Vimium

Useful if you are a vimmer.

7. A simple text file to track TODO's with vim

Vim makes it super easy to track TODO items. No plugin required. You can move around and makes changes quite fast.

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Post by thomasvarney723 »

I can't recommend LastPass enough. Also, PIA for VPN. I put a little cash and my credit card in my phone case so that I have only one thing to carry and always have money on me. I really liked f.lux when I used windows, if only I had a decent replacement for ChromeOS.

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saurabh wrote: post #17

1. Synergy I use Synergy to use my netbook's keyboard and touchpad for my workstation. I just zoom everything up on the workstation and lay back on the bed and code. Very cool. Bash alias on both systems is "synergize" The next thing that I am going to do is switch the server and client roles automatically so that when I am using the workstation I would be able to control my netbook. 2. Tmux I ssh to the workstation…

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Re: Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

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Post by LVB »

My shirt rack has three "zones". Clean clothes go in zone 1. When I take out a shirt, I put a special color hanger in its place. At night I hang up my shirt in the next zone, or chuck it in the hamper as appropriate.

My memory for little stuff sucks, so this makes it easy to wear each one three times.

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