Did you know that ~80% of the traffic on Google, Facebook and Twitter come from outside of the US? Fred Wilson (avc.com) has written an insightful blog post titled "Does Rest Of World Matter More Than The US?". Fred believes that localization is key to monetize outside of the ... »
Wimps tend to talk a lot about problems, and brave people tend to talk about challenges. The belief that there's a solution to something converts it from a problem into a challenge. — moi »
Epiphany! The past days I learned great things today about Mercurial. I found out Joel Spolsky's hginit.com. It teaches you the key concepts behind hg in a way which doesn't mess with complex internals, but focuses on what's important: the user experience. I found out that ... »
ack rocks. It's like grep, but you can also ignore .svn-like dirs and backup files (foo~, foo#), specify file types to search, color highlighting. Sweet! http://betterthangrep.com/ »
Today I wanted to debug some of our unit tests, so I wanted to drop to a shell from inside a test case. Here's how that can be done: import IPython IPython.embed() In previous versions this used to be: from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed ipython = IPShellEmbed() ipython() The ... »
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all that ends this strange eventful history is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes ... »
category text tags hg, hack, rebase Slug: 2010-01-27-single-merge-rebase Status: published `hg rebase` works well with merged branches. You can rebase a merged node perfectly. Additionally, with `--collapse`, you can hide the draft commits you might have done while developing. These help you do locally branched development.\ However, there's a ... »
category quote tags shakespear, english Slug: 2010-01-25-all-made-of Status: published It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance. — Shakespeare, "As you like it" »
Ξέρεις, καμιά φορά, θαυμάζοντας, ξεχνάς οτι θαυμάζεις, σου φτάνει ο θαυμασμός σου, θε μου, τι μάτια πάναστρα, κι ανυψωνόμουν σε μιαν αποθέωση αρνημένων άστρων γιατί, έτσι πολιορκημένη απ' έξω κι από μέσα, άλλος δρόμος δε μου 'μενε παρά μονάχα προς τα πάνω ή προς τα κάτω. - Όχι, δε φτάνει. Άφησέ ... »