Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem: „Sometimes as programmers we are blinded by the glory of the challenge of solving the 100% solution when there’s a more reasonable, rational alternative that’s almost as good. Something to keep in mind when you are wondering how you’ll possibly get…

I keep forgetting this line… $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ Update – you might instead want to try: $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ If it still doesn’t work, check the file permissions: 0700 on the .ssh directory and 0644 on the authorized_keys file are working for me,…

Another thing I keep forgetting in vi / vim: :%s/search/replace/g Joe ‚Zonker‘ Brockmeier at Linux.com – Vim tips: The basics of search and replace

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Thinking beyond the RFP: „Don’t ask „How will you be able to handle XYZ?“ unless you’re willing to tolerate answers like „Our standard user interface allows a user to do this“ or „our application programming interface allows the product to be easily extended so as to accomplish this.“ Instead,…

Jason Morrison – Twelve dollars for five words? What is the Associated Press thinking?: „No, I am not making this up. The AP is really asking people to pay them $12.50 if they quote more than four words of any story. […] How would the AP operate if every source they quoted demanded payment up…

Eric Ries – The Steve Jobs method: „Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. But it also means they have to be very careful kill projects if they are not trending towards something great. Which comes to the second major principle: halt work…

Aral Balkan – My Sys-Con Nightmare: „It all started at the end of March, 2009, when I discovered that I was listed as an author on a site called Ulitzer. They had used my name as a subdomain on their site […] and the site presented a photo of me, stating that I had been…

Paul Graham – Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule: „I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there’s sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I’m slightly less…

Nick Bradbury – If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support: „If you really want to write useful software, stop spending all your time keeping up with technology. Don’t worry if your resume isn’t filled with the latest buzzwords. Instead, invest your time in talking with your customers. They don’t…

Rich Rosen at O’Reilly Broadcast – Gmail’s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?: „The common wisdom is that marking things with tags or labels (so you can later search for them by tag) is better than organizing them hierarchically into folders. […] The problem is that people don’t seem to „get“ labels or…