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I'm all out of invites for now! I'll make another post if I get another batch. Enjoy!

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No problem! Track me if you want, https://keybase.io/sobering

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Anyone have any guesses as to when this will be available on DigitalOcean?

Edit: As of five minutes ago, it's showing up!

I'd also add `-j' to that list.

j = bzip2

I find a lot of packages with the `.tar.bz2' extension. Just replace `z' with `j' in your tar command and you're good.

I was on the verge of running them through `diff`

This is great! Bought it but paid less than I should have. Broke at the moment.

This definitely got me as well.

Gotcha.

"KitKat's SEO (for the candy bar) just dove into nothingness. Forever." -my boss

Really? I've always used it over SSH without issues.

Hear, hear.

For those interested, Dan Boneh's course on Cryptography starts another session as of today.

https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

Thanks for your answer, much appreciated.

Ditto. I still have yet to receive the email. Checked spam to no avail.

I love this. I'm a command line junkie, as I'm sure a lot of you are.

I showed it to my boss and he told me I should've been born 20 years earlier (born in '91).

I'd say 96% is being a tad conservative.

I'm glad you suggested what you did because that's exactly my current setup.

I have an ISP and Arduino. I yanked the AVR chip off the Arduino and stuck it on a breadboard. I just found it difficult to do anything due to my lack of EE knowledge. I could understand the programming basics due to past experience, but had no clue what was going on under the hood.

I think I'll read that EE book and then continue on the path I'm on.

Does anyone have any suggestions for books/learning materials related to the pre requisites mentioned in the article, specifically Microprocessor programming? I've tried to find some in the past but having no prior EE experience I find even some of the basics challenging.

I have experience with C, but don't really know where to start with the lower level stuff.

I'm thinking I should start with a simple book like Electrical Engineering 101 (http://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Third-Schoo...). Once I have a grasp on some EE basics I might be able to step into the Microprocessor programming a bit better, knowing a bit of what's happening behind the scenes.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

For being a design oriented company, LayerVault can't choose type colors worth shit. I can barely read any of the body text on nearly every page of their site.

They need to read up on W3's proposed contrast minimums: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#visual-audio-contrast-contrast

This is the only thing preventing me from making the switch to Dvorak. I'd be interested in people's thoughts as well.

That's what I had planned. Thanks for creating an outline for me. ;)

Thank you for the advice, you've definitely given me some stuff to thing about, and I'm glad to hear from somebody who's worked in a field similar to what I'd like to get into.

As for the man pages, I'm starting off with 'man', then will move onto my most commonly used commands for general Linux use and server administration. After that, I'll be using a shell script to give me a random man page.

Don't laugh.

My ultimate goal in life is to write software for satellites, space probes or planetary rovers. I want my code in space. It's a pretty advantageous goal, but with hard work I can do it.

There is a Canadian company that is currently hiring for my dream position: http://www.mscinc.ca/about/MS-engineer.html

I'd like to help further Canada's contribution to space science.

I'm currently taking my first year of Computer Science. Getting really good at C is something I feel like I should start now. Then I'll need to get good at embedded C and eventually start looking at the VxWorks operating system since it seems like that's what most probes or satellites use. But that's for the future.