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by schallis 7y ago
Rather than going cold turkey, I’ve found it much more effective to find ways to reduce my engagement e.g by turning off notifications for all platforms, unfollowing friends, groups etc. I’ve significantly reduced my Social media usage usin
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by schallis 7y ago
Rather than going cold turkey on Social Media, I’ve found it more effective to reduce the amount of content I’m exposed to e.g. for Facebook unfollowing all groups, turning off all notifications, reducing friends; for Instagram unfollowing
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by schallis 7y ago
I've been reading Berry's The Unsettling of America and am finding it a very comforting counterpoint to my career in tech and associated feelings of burnout.
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by schallis 10y ago
Jira Agile already includes this functionality for Software Development projects. A Board is created for these projects which exposes issues in this kind of interface.
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Leadership - My Experience(david-andrade13.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by schallis 13y ago|0 comments
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by schallis 13y ago
The article raises some Interesting points, even if all conflated under the banner of 'everyone should code' being wrong. "Not everyone enjoys coding" Sure, in which case there's no point doing something you don&#x2
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by schallis 13y ago
The phrase is a little crude but I see no reason for it to cause offence to any particular gender more than another.
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by schallis 14y ago
I've use a poor man's shell script that does pretty much this and works on OSX https://gist.github.com/1144996
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by schallis 15y ago
Remember that these are the guys that rated 2008's toxic bonds AAA. Does what they say really matter?
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by schallis 15y ago
You need Visual Basic for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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by schallis 16y ago
Unfortunately, "Open Source" is easier to market than "Free Software". The real benefits of true free software evidence themselves in the end and that's what counts, not what you call it. Edit: It is however important to distinguish between
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GitTorrent explained(advogato.org)
14 points by schallis 16y ago|4 comments
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by schallis 16y ago
Oh cool, it'll be interesting to see if that makes a switch more compelling.
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by schallis 16y ago
I disagree, Viper mode is a very thin imitation of a few Vim commands. Slightly too thin for my liking, even on the most compatible of modes :p Besides, to really experience the benefits of Emacs you have to dive right in. There are many
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by schallis 16y ago
Wonderful project, it seems I'm not the only one who was reluctant to switch to Emacs just for org-mode.
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by schallis 16y ago
All good points, I find summarization especially useful. In this case, since I've actually finished my degree, I just wanted to flick through a bunch of these on the train (without internet access) so it was useful to have an offline archiv
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The Lazy Way To Download Journal Articles(stevechallis.com)
27 points by schallis 16y ago|7 comments
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Emacs Fill Prefix in Vim(schallis.com)
1 points by schallis 16y ago|0 comments
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GridFS now in MongoEngine(stevechallis.com)
1 points by schallis 16y ago|0 comments
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Council’s Open Source Plans Stymied By Central Government(computerweekly.com)
1 points by schallis 16y ago|0 comments
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Full text search with MongoDB(hmarr.com)
50 points by schallis 17y ago|3 comments
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MongoEngine 0.3 Released(hmarr.com)
13 points by schallis 17y ago|1 comments
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by schallis 17y ago
MongoEngine just brings some structure back to MongoDB to make it easier to work with and reduce bugs in your code. This doesn't mean to say that it imposes strict mappings, you are still free to store and retrieve what you want, even chang
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SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by schallis 17y ago|0 comments