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The Open-office Trap 12 years ago
    > So when you plan your next office, leave the kitchen
    > open too - the scrape of chairs on the tiles, the
    > sound of the dishwasher being unloaded, the happy
    > PING of the microwave - not to mention the aromas of
    > hot food - all these things will make employees feel
    > right at home.
This is an accurate description of lunchtime at the digital shitshow where I work. An open plan kitchen really is the handiwork of the idiot. Sometimes I'm glad the toilets were prebuilt when we moved in, or else I fear we'd have open plan shitting as well.
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Why does GitHub let me commit as other people? 12 years ago

It'd be pretty good if the publicity surrounding this article led to an increase in usage of PGP. I've always thought it was a shame how underused asymmetric encryption is in comparison to its potential.

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Would you kindly stop spamming me? 12 years ago

I get spammed in a whole different way. I share my name with an organisation: The Firstname Lastname Organization. Every so often, some recruiters email me résumés of people hoping to work at the Firstname Lastname Organization. Every time, I reply asking them to stop sending me these résumés, explaining that I am not the Firstname Lastname Organization and I am not hiring.

Even being told that they have the wrong address seems to be no deterrent for some recruiters. One day soon, even the richest YC alumni are going to be eclipsed by whoever figures out how to disintermediate these pricks into oblivion.

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Practical Tmux 12 years ago

Also how does tmux handle copy/paste with vertical splits ?

It doesn't. If I want to copy some text and it's in a vertical split, well... shit. Time to break out the tmux manual and see if I can figure out how to move this pane above the other one. You know what, screw it. I'll just open a new window entirely, and re-run the test there so I can copy the output.

That's how tmux handles copy/paste with vertical splits.

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Where did all the developers go? 12 years ago

Co-opted is the correct word.

I like the idea of story points as a tool for communicating with each other about rough estimates. I don't like story points as a source of data for management to put into spreadsheets and use in dubious "velocity calculations". I especially don't like the results of those calculations being used to measure my individual productivity and set expectations about my future work rate.

The language of agile has been co-opted to suit the needs of mediocre managers.

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