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the-come-onson “What if Michael Bay did our developer recruiting video?”

That guy kind of looks like whiskycraig.

the-come-onson How is Waza different than British Ruby Conference?

https://waza.heroku.com/2013

the-come-onson SkiFree in the Browser

This is great. I miss the pooping dog though. :)

the-come-onson Rubygems.org compromised

Who is Amanda? I think you mean Nick...

the-come-onson Life is the Event

Related TED Talk

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq7QPnqLoUk

the-come-onson My Madison Ruby Story

I, too, was skipping out on the technical panel and was in the room when Wendy's name was called. It was quite humorous to see her realize it was her name that was called. She said "that's me", got up and ran out of the room in excitement yelling “WAAAAIT!"

I'm happy to have that memory and to have this blog post to remind me of one of the many great parts of the Madison ruby conference. I am definitely returning next year! Maybe I will win the gift certificate this time...

the-come-onson [dead]

I think the title is supposed to read "The Oatmeal is Raisin Money for a..."

the-come-onson Designer Michael Parenteau's journey to Heroku, Github, Dropbox, etc.

tldr;

http://parenteau-sf-journey.herokuapp.com/data

the-come-onson Vim clutch

Thanks for the tip!

the-come-onson Mozilla Thimble

I literally shudder at the thought of editing code from within a browser. That said, it does seem useful for introducing html.

the-come-onson IPhone crybabies need to shut up about Instagram on Android

The last sentence of the article is my exact sentiment towards the article.

"So let’s put our energy towards worrying about more important things, shall we?"

I am not a fan of this type of news on HN.

the-come-onson How to copy and paste with tmux on Mac OS X

If you are on Linux, add this to your ~/.tmux.conf file.

  ##CLIPBOARD selection integration
  ##Requires prefix key before the command key
  #Copy tmux paste buffer to CLIPBOARD
  bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | xclip -i -selection clipboard"
  #Copy CLIPBOARD to tmux paste buffer and paste tmux paste buffer
  bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer -- \\"$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)\\"; tmux paste-buffer"

the-come-onson Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?

I host my own mail server on a VPS. I made a clear cut from the big G about a year ago. I switched to duckduckgo.com as my main search engine, installed noscript, blocking all analytics requests, and set up my own mail server on Arch Linux using dovecot, postfix, and spam assassin. This setup has been wonderful and I feel proud to use it since I was once afraid of various issues which, in reality, have been minimal! I can access my mail from any computer or mobile device that allows SSH or has an IMAP mail client.

Once after a system upgrade mail was no longer being delivered to my inbox. I noticed after a day and thought it was strange. I forgot to reboot the mail server software after upgrading. Soon after my mail server rebooted I had many emails delivered from when my mail server was down. This excited and surprised me. I thought I would never get those emails but I assume the mail clients just held on to them and tried sending again intermittently.

Any self-respecting hacker should at least try to setup a mail server on a virtual machine. The hacker will find it interesting and useful. It really only takes a couple hours and it is fun! For those hackers who are brave enough, here is the guide that I used:

http://www.gelens.org/archlinux-mailserver/

the-come-onson Ask HN: Is there a "learn Linux the hard way"?

I feel there is more freedom to choose exactly what system I want to create for my needs with Arch over Ubuntu. I love the Arch community and I enjoy using the forum system more than Ubuntu's. Also, I hang out in the #archlinux channel and people are super friendly and helpful!

Ubuntu tends to be recommended for novices coming from Windows or Mac who are also unsure of the command line. My brother installed it after he purchased a cheap laptop. He came from Mac OS X and fell in love. After learning more, he installed Mint and really enjoys it. He is programming now! Obviously Ubuntu is for advanced users also. It just so happens that it is accessible to beginners as well which is great!

When switching distros, say from Debian to Arch, you should embrace the idea that fundamentals are completely different. Package management, for instance, must be re-learned. And the way daemons and modules are initialized and configured is different and plenty of other things! You are going to lose context and that can be the most frustrating part of switching. If you can overcome that and succeed at the new tools, you will have gained more skills.

The great thing about Linux is that it is free software. I love to experiment with Virtualbox and lots of distros for fun. I would encourage you to try a few, a couple non debian based, and see if you enjoy them more.

the-come-onson Ask HN: Is there a "learn Linux the hard way"?

If you really don't mind getting your hands dirty, I recommend: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

My Linux skills have improved and I have really enjoyed using Linux as my desktop and dev environment since learning by using Arch.

the-come-onson Ask HN: Why did you start programming?

I created a menu based text adventure game about the colonists from England who sailed to America in the 1600s for my history class in middle school. It was created in the basic language built into the TI-83+ calculator. My teacher was extremely impressed and I was awarded an A+.

the-come-onson I'm 23. I have $3000. How can I best use it to make more money?

I am not a multimillionaire yet, sorry.

If $3000 was all that I had, the one thing I would do would be to a) get a job or b) get a second job (work hard while you can). I would then immediately pay down my credit card with the $3000. Then, with the money from my paychecks, I would save $1000 into a regular savings account (for emergencies). More work more money. Then I completely pay off my debt. I sure as hell hate debt! After my card is paid off, I start adding that old credit card payment to my savings plus anything extra that I possibly can.

It is more advantageous for you to stay out of debt now (and forever). I think you will feel better.