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Often I want to copy/paste a line from my bash terminal and re-run it. Rather than hunt for the $ and copy only the command, I set my ps1 to be a comment. Bash makes this hard so I use the : operator to create a NOP command, and ; to signify that a second command on the same line should be run.

my ps1 looks like this now:

    : [bbeecher@Iago workspace]$;

so I can now do something like this:

    : [bbeecher@Iago genomic]$;: [bbeecher@Iago genomic]$;ls

And just get the ls at the end.

Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms.

It’s so true - every time I talk to a friend or acquittance and creativity, or passion, or some kind of desire to turn the world into a better place enters the conversation there’s a palpable shift in the conversation - “how can we monetize this” is always, always uttered. 

bbook:

flavorpill:

WHY NOT COMBINE THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH DESSERT? Why not indeed

Now this, this makes sense.

For developers, it’s technologically more manageable to build one mobile web app than a half-dozen or even just two native apps. And given the state of mobile web standards, we’re quickly approaching a point where end users can’t tell the difference between the two. All that’s really left is a business model for mobile web apps, Sullivan contends.

I could not agree more. It’s been a pretty prevalent pattern - thick client when a tech is first adopted and then a move into a thin client as it hits maturity and becomes a stable platform. And from a developer standpoint,  I’d much rather write one website than 3 native apps.

Glass Masters at Work: Vittorio Costantini (by corningmuseumofglass)

I had no idea glass could be so beautiful

I needed the first true value in a list, and someone challenged me to some code golf:

»> reduce(lambda x,y: x or y, [False, False, 1, False, 2])

1

This is absolutely insane - 100% pure css