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ktf · on Aug 18, 2014

> 3) Movies: you should watch them with subtitles in the spoken language.

I can't believe I never thought to do this. Great idea, thanks!

ktf · on June 2, 2014

Reminds me of a real-life version of something from Pynchon's Bleeding Edge -- inching toward parody, but still believable. (In this case, unlike in the novel, because it's actually true...)

ktf · on May 19, 2014

Also works great in XFCE, in my experience.

ktf · on May 1, 2014

I don't even have a LinkedIn account, I've never had an account, and I still receive their emails. It's mystifying...

ktf · on March 14, 2014

What kind of "technical minutiae" do you put in your Anki deck? I use Anki for Japanese study, but I've been thinking about doing more with it. Wasn't quite sure how to make useful tech flashcards... outside of memorizing as many powers of 2 as I could :)

JabavuAdams · on March 18, 2014

Snippets from Python module docs. Objective-C APIs.

Basically, anything that I have to look up on StackOverflow.

E.g. os.path.relpath, -[NSString valueWithPointer:], -[NSString substringFromIndex:].

My loose heuristic is if I claim to be an X programmer, and some douche calls me out on an API call for language X in an interview, would I feel embarrassed saying I usually just look that up on Stack Overflow.

ktf · on Feb 10, 2014

This is awesome, thanks! I've always assumed that PPAs were Ubuntu-only magic for some reason.

ktf · on Jan 21, 2014

Some literature really does need to be "decoded" in a similar way, however. (Speaking as someone who recently finished Ulysses...)

ktf · on Nov 8, 2013

Alternative method: click the big on/off switch for online search results.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not defending Ubuntu. I think it's gross that they include this at all, and extra-gross that it's on by default. But let's not get too carried away with the hyperbole and conspiracy theories.

Just read the source! Or if you don't trust the source, just examine your network traffic. Pretty easy to verify whether the button does what it claims...

EDIT/PSA: Don't copy/paste things from a website directly into your terminal. See http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste, for example.

ktf · on Nov 8, 2013

Did you read the linked article? It doesn't matter what it looks like you're copying/pasting, or how it's explained in the site you're copying/pasting it from.

cakeface · on Nov 8, 2013

Thanks for posting that - I came in here to do the same thing but you beat me to it. Please read the linked article before ever copying and pasting from the web!

shortstuffsushi · on Nov 8, 2013

To both you and cakeface, yes. I still don't really find that relevant, though.

ktf · on Oct 2, 2013

Didn't even have to think about this one: Eloquent Javascript, by Marijn Haverbeke. He's an amazing writer and a brilliant all-around guy. Technically it's geared toward new programmers, but it's worth a read at pretty much any level.

You can find it free online here: https://eloquentjavascript.net/ or buy a print version here: http://nostarch.com/ejs.

(Full disclosure: I'm listed as the editor on the print version, though in this case my job basically consisted of nodding as chapters came in and saying, "Yup, that's a damn good book.")