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

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Post by philip1209 »

notduncansmith wrote: post #8
philip1209 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have an internal wiki page with custom alfred formulas for our company. "customer " "domain " "logs "" It makes life for engineers, support, and sales much more efficient.

I wish there were enough Mac users at our company to make this worthwhile. Is your whole team on OS X?

No, but in general company laptops are macbooks. They play nicely with virtualized operating systems, SSHing into *nix servers, windows via bootcamp, etc.

The Alfred formulas are shared more out of courtesy than a company need.

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

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Post by tokenizerrr »

thomasvarney723 wrote: post #18

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.

I really want to like LastPass, but I can't get over all of my passwords being stored on someone elses server. Doesn't that seem like a terrible security risk?

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

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Post by berberous »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #22
thomasvarney723 wrote: post #18

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.

I really want to like LastPass, but I can't get over all of my passwords being stored on someone elses server. Doesn't that seem like a terrible security risk?

Well, this scares me:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/11/lastpass-finds-security-hol...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/severe-password-mana...

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

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Post by saurabh »

thatswrong0 wrote: post #9

When I'm paying with a card I hold my wallet until I get my card back. I wrote myself a script and have my dot files on github to make setting up a new machine quicker. Tons of gmail filters. Ian's knot to tie my shoes (I know, doesn't really save time, I think there's an XKCD that shows the break even point on time investments like that). Aliases like 'helpme' that remind me of some Git commands I always forget. Bru…

Thanks, I missed that XKCD.

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1205:_Is_It_Worth_...

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

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Post by joncrocks »

pennies wrote: post #14

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…

Never underestimate the power of ass pennies.

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

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Post by jeffreyrogers »

jasonlotito wrote: post #12
Mizza wrote: post #2

ag. I use this tool between 50 and 100 times a day. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

How does it compare to just using git grep?

It works outside of git repositories and is faster than grep or awk.

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

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Post by jeffreyrogers »

ivansavz wrote: post #3

The Mac OS text-to-speech tool is awesome for proofreading. Another use for it is to be read blog posts to while doing the dishes and making coffee.

You can also use it from the terminal with the `say` command, e.g. `say -f myfile.txt`
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