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krlempft 1 year ago | link | on: How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store

It suddenly made a lot of sense how this app generates $80,000 a month. At $400/month per subscriber, it only needs to scam 200 people to make $80,000/month […]

Basically an click baiting article about scam apps.
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  xmj 1 year ago | link
  
  Like way too many articles on Medium.

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trousers 1 year ago | link | on: Speeding up builds on FreeBSD

Another tip not listed on the site: Use faster disks. I moved my poudriere jails to zfs on an nvme disk, and it sped things up quite a bit.
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  xmj 1 year ago | link
  
  Indeed- because that wouldn’t be about using the things you already have more efficiently, but throwing money at the problem.

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xmj 1 year ago | link | on: Why I Only Work Remotely

Agreed. Add to that the fact that the market around here for working with BSDs is non-existent.

However, remote jobs aren’t as easy to find as they once were. Most companies insist on on-site placements.

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Irene 4 years ago | link | on: 3 things every programmer must learn (and no one teaches you)

This is all profoundly true stuff. Probably everybody knows it already… right?
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  Pyskool 4 years ago | link
  
  It might sound a bit cheesy, but let me quote the Matrix to you:
  
  “Neo, there is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.” :)
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    Irene 4 years ago | link
    
    Yes. But I didn’t take anything so deep as that from this particular article. It had no particularly powerful writing to reinforce the importance of actually following this advice. Even some Matrix-style pseudo-mystical stuff would have made it less bland. :)
    
    But it’s still profoundly true, you see… haha. :)
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      xmj 4 years ago | link
      
      Sometimes all that’s necessary to a change in behavior is someone else (!) stating the obvious.

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cmacrae edited 4 years ago | link | on: What is Your Workflow Like? / What tools do you use?

I wasn’t sure sharing my tools/workflow would help you much, as you state you’re on Windows, but I saw your comment saying you’re waiting for an Ubuntu install.

I don’t use anything particularly out of the ordinary: i3 window manager, rxvt-unicode, zsh, vim. But what I will certainly advocate the use of: tmux. If you’re not already a user, pick it up, use it heavily. It changed the way I work for the better.

It really helps keep things organized - for instance, I always have 3 sessions running: management, support, and personal. Each session will dictate what kind of tools are open or what kind of actions I carry out. I’m a sysadmin, so maybe these session names don’t speak wonders to you, but I’m sure there’s certain ‘categories’ that segment your workflow, and embodying that in a few shells can really help manage how you conduct your work.

I am, of course, only pointing out one tiny feature that I find really useful, tmux is so much more, go read up on it if you’re unfamiliar.
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  howdoipython 4 years ago | link
  
  Yup I’ve been using tmux for a decent amount of time, it’s great!
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  lm 4 years ago | link
  
  And a tip for anyone who has been a heavy user of screen long time, you can change the keybindings to similar of screen. (CTRL+A etc)
  
  With this the switch from screen is really simple.
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  xmj 4 years ago | link
  As it’s similar, I’ll join mine right here.
  
  Tools:
  
  FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT on a 13.3" UltraBook
  
  i3 window manager – the WM_CLASS to workspace magic is gold.
  
  xterm
  
  zsh
  
  ssh-agent (with different ssh keys for different purposes, think login to
  
  hosts, pull from git repos, …) and this helpful snippet in ~/.ssh/config:
  
  Host *
  
  ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/master-%l-%r@%h:%p
  
  ControlMaster auto
  
  ControlPersist yes
  
  TCPKeepAlive yes
  
  ServerAliveInterval 5
  
  ServerAliveCountMax 1
  
  tmux (with exposed SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK variables)
  
  git (for work and fun)
  
  svn (for FreeBSD purposes)
  
  mutt
  
  gpg
  
  irssi
  
  When it comes to development practices:
  
  git flow – http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
  
  Code Reviews (we use GitLab, MergeRequests are easy to create with feature
  
  branching)
  
  Jenkins for Unit/Integration/Regression testing.
  
  … and of course, the practice of not doing releases on Fridays.

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xmj 4 years ago | link | on: Why I'm turning JavaScript off by default

That’s what I like about xombrero: If you use it in whitelist mode, cookies and JS are off-by-default.

You can toggle them on a per-session basis by hitting F4, cookies will be cleared on exit.
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  kyle 4 years ago | link
  
  I’m a huge fan of xombrero for this reason.
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  akkartik 4 years ago | link
  
  Thanks for the tip to xombrero! Just got it built and running on ubuntu.

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journeysquid 4 years ago | link | on: FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Over 50%

Original links (Slashdot, really?):

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-December/001517.html

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
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  xmj 4 years ago | link
  
  Apologies, I hadn’t seen the -announce@ mailing list thread and thought Colin Percival’s statement was the original statement. Will do more research in future posts!