Everything I Care About

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Vim Commands

I use vim for programming for about a year now. I feel very comfortable using it. Vim is such a complex tool that you need to constantly improve your skills in order to master it.

So here are the next commands that I would like to use on a regular basis:

* find next occurence # find previous :g /regexp/command ci" change until " % jump to () :! execute shell command :reg show registers "(number)p put register :ls          -- List buffers :ls!         -- List ALL buffers :bn          -- Open next buffer :bp          -- Open previous buffer :bf          -- Open first Buffer :bl          -- Open last buffer :b #         -- Open buffer :bd #        -- Close buffer (# optional) :bad <name>  -- New buffer named <name> :retab. It lets you convert from tabs to spaces and from spaces to tabs ZZ save and quit

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I love jammit

Jammit is an awesome rails gem that compress and combines js and css files on deployment. It saves time and reduces page load. Pure Awesomness!

official jammit site: http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/

good blog post about jammit: http://slowcop.com/how-to-combine-your-css-and-javascript-files-in-rails-with-jammit

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jcromartie:

I really enjoyed patio11’s AnyAsq, especially this part:

My most important bit of advice: LAUNCH. Asking me questions is not launching. Reading about the topic is not launching. Launching is launching. All good things come from launching. My business went from conception to launch in 8 days….

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Did you encoded your code in WTF-8?

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When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, “Wow, that was an adventure,” not “Wow, I sure felt safe.”

Tom Preston-Werner cofounder of GitHub.

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BreakDOM

A remix of the classic Breakout game.

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We are currently developing an iPhone game and are looking for an iPhone game art designer. If you are interested just send me a message. 

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This is a pretty cool interview with Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook and the early days by Jessica Livingston, the author of the awesome book Founders at Work. I can really recommend that book.

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Facebook engineers decide what they want to work on and are allowed to make changes across the site without asking for permission.

Skype product Manager Yee Lee talked to a bunch of friends who work at Facebook, and his resulting post on how Facebook ships code makes it sound like the biggest startup in the world. Some of the points in the original post were later corrected on Quora and Reddit, but the overall impression remains the same: Facebook is driven by engineers, not marketers or managers, and they trust each other to do the right thing.

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Sean Walker - The Truth (Motivational Speech)

If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath. Then you will be successful!

Shortened Version: http://www.cule.tv/#pv=23001 

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If you need inspiration for your next project you should try out this site. People are writing about what things they would like to have.

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Recommendation Better Touch Tool

If you use a mac with a multitouch touchpad or a magic mouse you should check out BetterTouchTool. The program lets you define new gestures for your Mac. For example I defined a new three finger swipe up gesture to open a new tab in my Chrome web browser. Additionally I can now close a tab with a three finger swipe down gesture and open a link in a new tab with a three finger click on a link. Furthermore the tool adds some new features to your Mac like the Windows 7 snap to resize windows.

You should try it out http://www.boastr.net/

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The Startup Conspiracy Your parents, teachers, television, and Uncle Ned have driven into your brain that being smart and having an idea is enough to guarantee your spot on the cover of Red Herring Business 2.0 Fast Company. There seems to be some kind of conspiracy that startup success is easy; that it’s handed out like a lei as you step off the plane at the San Francisco Airport.

But it’s not easy. It’s really hard. It’s a combination of enormous amounts of hard work, intelligence, and luck. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something. Even if it’s just a magazine.

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Anybody who likes 3D movies?

The movie "The Green Hornet" is currently only viewable in 3D in german cinemas. Why?

I personally don't know anybody who likes 3D Movies. The glasses are annoying it costs more and it almost feels the same. 

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Googler #13

You should check out the story of Googler#13 its quite entertaining.

One of my favorite parts is when he tries to get a job in San Francisco.

It was September 1995. I had been in San Francisco just over a year and had nothing to show for it. I remember walking around the streets of San Francisco and seeing two individuals who made a profound impression on me. One was a panhandler who simply sat on a corner and directly asked for money. The other was a man standing on a milk crate wearing a sandwich board that said "Repent! The end of the world is coming." I was in a state of mind where I was open to anything. The things that struck me were that the first man had gotten to a point where his ego had been worn away and he was willing to simply and directly ask for what he wanted without beating around the bush. The second man believed so strongly in his convictions that he was willing to physically wear his message and present it to the world. By the end of the week, I had created a sandwich board expelling the virtues of my skills. One morning, I put on my best thrift store suit and boarded the 5am bus to the financial district with my sandwich board under my arm. I stood outside the Bank of America world headquarters, put the two-sided sign over my head and began passing out resumes. I was there for 12 hours. I passed out resumes as people rolled into work, when they went out for lunch and as they left for home. This was one of the most humbling moments of my life. I stood out, exposed, bluntly asking for help and displaying my convictions. The response was amazing and really helped renew my faith in people. In the back of my head, I think I was expecting people to throw tomatoes at me (which my friend in New York said would have happened on Wall Street). Instead, many people took my resume and talked to me.

Go to his site and read it yourself.

Have fun!

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I studied for one semester at the Griffith University on the Gold Coast Campus together with my girlfriend. We lived for about 4 month in Surfers Paradise and afterwards we traveled together for about 2 month. This is a short 52sec trailer of that time.

You can find our australia blog at http://australia23.wordpress.com 

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The best of Mac vs PC clips.

http://www.cule.tv/#pv=16001