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On social relationships and metaphors
I've been trying to find a copy online (or at least a summary of) Gilingang Bato by Edgardo Reyes. The short story was published in the 1960s. It depicts a poor family who own a small millstone for griding rice; they sell rice cakes and other sweets to subsist.
What prompted my sudden urge to find the story? I'm kind of hazy on the plot of ( Read more... ) -
I am not the man(1) system
Actual occurrence, just five minutes ago:
Butch: JM, what's the purpose of -a in git-commit?
Me: Uh, it's like this. (Then I begin to explain in terms of svn commit and the git index)
Pause.
Me: You did not just use me as a man page.
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Desktop Environments, continued; and a bit of House
Since I'm a bastard to please, I've again switched away from ion3. I'm now back to using Openbox 3 as my work environment, though I believe it to be suboptimal for my workflow. Call me fickle. Details under the cut.
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Desktop Environments, Or How To Piss Off Your Users
If you've ever seen me work, you probably know that I am quite comfortable with the command line. In fact, I prefer opening a terminal or writing a shell script rather than booting up a file manager; I can do a lot more on the command line, without taking my hands off the keyboard.
So, my desktop environment of choice is Ion3, a keyboard-driven ( Read more... ) -
Murphy's Law, and How Not To Call a Web Service
Recently, we've been assigned to assist another company in a development/maintenance role. They had an existing web application, written in Java and used by a large number of users- the web application was up and running and they needed to modify the application to interface with an external system, but they did not have the people who knew Java ( Read more... ) -
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Expertise is more than meets the eye: One String IT Pieces
In a post, Sacha Chua asked: what are the "one-string pieces" of the IT world?
The "one-string piece" of IT (systems administration maybe) could be the ( Read more... ) -
On Programming and The Programmer's Toolbox
I am quite interested in a wide swath of technologies, some esoteric, some popular. Particularly, I follow the news on various libraries and tools. I like to keep my toolbox full.
Although I'm usually quite busy and I currently work in Java, I ( Read more... )