hyperbo.la :: lifestream
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So on this one server, my default shell was /bin/sh, i'm not a sudoer, root owns my home directory, and another user owns /home. #linux #fail

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This article is so cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies #wikipedia

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so in order to access Mail.app's preferences to make it not be the default mailto: handler, I first have to configure it #fail

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Way to steal my MEng thesis idea Twitter https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale

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the goes to operator (x --> 0) makes #C feel more like #ruby! #fail

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Seriously, Office? You rm the backup from the disk when I close it instead of doing the sane thing and moving it to my trash? #fail #hard

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why does iChat think it's ok to grow as large as it wants vertically? #no, I'll manage my windows by myself.

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#timeboxed this gcc cross compiler nonsense. Using debathena in a VM is easier. #hammer

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#compiling #gcc from source to get an ELF cross-compiler on OSX. This is so #fail

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its amazing how much quicker a script runs when you don't create 60,000 Hashes and compile a regex 30k times #ruby

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Because kernel.org is down, I used airdrop to copy over a cached version of the git source and formula from another computer so I could install it with homebrew #fail

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bookmarking for later: useful defaults for OS X apps. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

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#UPnP stopped working on my router. Flashed it to fix.

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I got to 100 #tweets a hell of a lot faster than I did here (still not there yet)

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So I used #github socially to review someone's code and got flamed. That's the last time I do that.

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Abiding by the principle of least surprise is, to me at least, least surprising.

Photo for post 90.
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I remember when I wanted one of these #sonymylo