September 2011
3 posts
job vs. career
One of my colleagues—I’ll call him G.—recently told me how he had gotten his current job. He said it was because he had been unemployed for six months. In that time, he got up early every day, studied, and coded. What did he study? Everything listed in the job description.
Having a job can lull one into a false sense of security. Before his layoff, G. had been working for one of a handful of U.S....
Mango, mmm
Among our decidedly non–Korean friends, Korean telenovellas are apparently in the list of top ten reasons for owning Android devices capable of playing Flash videos. So when the missez started watching “Lie to Me” on Netflix this week, our Apple fanboi household had finally caught up with the world.
This show is funny—and not just because of the clever and insightful dialogue.
1. The supposedly...
back it up
If you read my last post, you’re probably thinking, instead of running three commands, why not just copy the file and go home?
$ cp -p moneyhoney.js moneyhoney.js~ $ svn revert moneyhoney.js
Three reasons:
git gives you versioning.
I have a bash function for you.
git gives you versioning.
You can put this in your .profile:
backup () { if [[ $# -ne 0 && -e "$@" ]]; then if [ !...