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badboy

136 karma · joined January 29, 2012

geek, student, 20, more?

twitter: @badboy_ github: @badboy url: http://fnordig.de

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badboy··on Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad
When I started to study last year in October I thought about getting a tablet for day-to-day use. But then I realized everything and more can be done with a small Laptop aswell and reading papers is even better on a Kindle than on a tablet anyway. I am happy with my choice, there's such no usecase for a tablet where my laptop/smartphone/kindle can't do a better job overall.
badboy··on Leaving Instapaper for Readability
I use InstaFetch on my Android phone: https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.immortal.instafetch

Even the Lite Version has everything I need: Saving links and from time to time even read them on my phone (now that I've got a Kindle that's not so often anymore)

badboy··on GitHub for Mac 1.2: Snow Octocat
I just found tig, which is even better than any graphical client.

tig: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

badboy··on GitHub for Mac 1.2: Snow Octocat
Now some love for us Linux guys and I would be so happy.
badboy··on Elixir: Ruby-like Syntax and Homoiconicity for Erlang VM
I like the ruby syntax and I played a bit with Erlang in the past. This looks just like the perfect mix of both worlds.
badboy··on Useful use of cat(1)
Ok, I should read more carefully. I thought the article uses cat > file followed by ^D to create empty files.

Of course when having some text cat > file is just fine.

badboy··on Useful use of cat(1)

  cat > file vs. touch file
  cat file | cmd vs. cmd < file
  cmd1 | cmd2 | cat vs. { cmd1 | cmd2 || true; } vs. cmd1 | cmd2; true
So even some of the thing listed are still not the best use case for cat
badboy··on The Death Star would't be that expensive
So let's start some fundraising right now.
badboy··on Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?
It is a bad thing to have just one command to move files instead of 3? Nah, I don't get it.

That git has different commands than svn is because it is different. Why should it adopt any of the commands if it does different things?

When I started with git, I never ever destroyed any of the history. Because it's not easy to do so.

I looking forward to read the follow-up article where he wants to point out some advantages of git.

badboy··on Google Music falling short of expectations
I upload my music to Google Music. But just so I can access it when I want to play some music when at a friend's house. It just don't work on my mobile phone, because when I leave my house I got no mobile connection, so I NEED to rely on music saved on my phone already. And why I don't use it at home: My local music player (mpd) makes it so much more comfortable (shortcuts, remote control via phone, ...)
badboy··on TinyC: Lexer, parser, code generator, & VM in 291 lines of C code
Now I got something to read this evening.
badboy··on C/C++ Pointer Declaration Syntax – It makes sense
I started with C as my first language and even though pointers made some code really hard to read and sometimes my own experiments with pointers crashed horribly, it helped me understanding programming in a whole, how the memory is used and changed, ... I no longer write anything real in C now, but I feel quite confident when reading other's people C code.
badboy··on Aussies' fix for 'stagnated' email
Wow, the interface is really nice. But I don't think it would work for my daily mail use. I'm too familiar with my mutt setup.
badboy··on Let - lets you run a node.js script a specified amount of time.
seriously, I don't get it why I should use another big node script when there is timeout
badboy··on Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
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