sobering

Hah! 'electronic flower of information'. Awesome.

p.s. I'm from Winnipeg, the city Winnie the Pooh is named after.

Agreed. I've had the same demoralizing experience with books and manuals in the past. What I really hope to do after reading each manual page is use it throughout the day wherever I can. Someone else also suggested reading some StackExchange questions on each command. I think that will be beyond valuable, and provide some real world uses that I can add to my toolbelt.

Thanks for the advice. I've already gone through K&R, but I just got the C Answer Book in the mail a couple months back and wanted to go through all the exercises again. I'll just have to really pace myself and not take in more information than I can handle in a single day.

The StackExchange idea is excellent. I'll get a sense of how the command should be used in real environments.

I'll definitely check out 'apropos'. :)

Just found this little snippet via a quick Google search:

  dir="/bin"; man $(ls $dir |sed -n "$(echo $(( $RANDOM % $(ls $dir |wc -l | awk "{ print $1; }" ) + 1 )) )p")

I think I may write my own version as well. Just to gain a bit more experience with shell scripting.

Best of luck to you! I think it's really important to actually apply new knowledge to your everyday workflow. It's far too easy to go and read a book, blog post, or article and then just let that information go to waste.

So far the plan is to start with "man" and then go through the man pages of my most commonly used commands: cd, ls, grep, cat, sed, etc.

After that, I may write a little shell script that simply opens one at random for me.

I too, seem to struggle with the day to day tasks. I hope that by publicly announcing my goals, it will make it slightly easier.

I also tried to break down my daily tasks into something that is actually manageable. I feel like many people, when breaking down their goals, tend to overload themselves or put themselves into a routine they simply can't manage or maintain for long periods of time.

Your Twitter response was completely stupid. As people above mentioned, there was no effort put into spelling (although it is Twitter, so I'll give some slack). But blasting the dude with like six hilariously "ridiculous" Tweets just made yourself look worse.

I think this site is a perfect showcase of how damaging some libraries and frameworks can be when used by lazy designers or developers.

Bootstrap is a great tool, and I've used it in my projects before. It's amazing how fast you can get something up and running. But in the hands of the lazy, it's a curse.

Might when it's out of beta, but I'm currently enjoying Chocolat: http://chocolatapp.com/