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Check out salt. Simple and amazing.

Is it worth mastering? No. Worth understanding? Yes.

Regex is used in so many applications and commands, it would be silly not to learn it.

You don't need to be a wizard, but do understand the basics and it will get you far.

Is there a way to get the reading list for this course?

I thought this was an excellent writeup and I would like to learn more more.

Are there any recommended books on learning about the Internet/DNS on a global scale?

Neat 'recipe for success' but what's there to discuss?

I've messed around with golf for about a year or two before getting serious this summer. Lessons made the biggest improvement. After I had a rough idea from the lessons, reading really made me understand the hows and whys.

This should help you on your way: If there are any golf courses around you, check their clubhouses for a local pro. There's usually someone around giving lessons.

This is where you need to spend the most money. Buy 5 or 10 lessons. Learn the fundamentals first, dont worry about distance, worry about contact.

Do this instead of a "craigslist deal". You'll be sure to get sound advice from someone who really understands the game.

For clubs, buy used or secondhand. These will last you until you either fall in love with the game or give it up and something else.

Suggested reading would include:

    Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf — Ben Hogan
    Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf — Harvey Penick
    Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic — Jack Nicklaus

Anyone play golf? I love it.

I also enjoy riding my motorcycle, reading literature, weightlifting, photography, and playing Battlefield 2.

I am learning to play piano and chess.

I enjoy seeing these python related posts being submitted. As @whalesalad said, it seems a lot of the innovation is in ruby/node land.

Although the first thing I noticed when I clicked the link was that it looks like it's a scraped design of Svbtle.

edit: spelling.

Could you explain your thoughts on sharing images/use of PACS? I do IT work for an imaging center and would be interested in your experience with such software.

Expected an article about Nikon hardware, but still enjoyed it.

The author has a lot of neat looking posts, I recommend giving them a look.

Is that network yours? No? Then it's illegal.

It's an interesting way to have someone do the dirty work. I would love to see a postmortem writeup.

Had the pleasure of meeting Linus last weekend while up in Portland, at a Go Kart facility no less. Super nice guy, but I was a little too star struck to form coherent words. His race nickname was Penguin, :).

I don't mean to hijack OPs response, but it reminded me of Robert M. Pirsig's book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.

From Wikipedia: "In the book, the Narrator describes the "Romantic" approach to life of his friend John Sutherland, who chooses not to learn how to maintain his expensive new motorcycle. John simply hopes for the best with his bike, and when problems do occur he often becomes frustrated, and is forced to rely on professional mechanics to repair it. In contrast, the "classical" Narrator has an older motorcycle which he is usually able to diagnose and repair himself through the use of rational problem solving skills."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_M...

I think the problem is bias.

Math can be taught without bias, as numbers can only be seen as numbers. There are only a few ways you can teach maths. When you teach history, it brings in a plethora of views, opinions, and bias. There will always be someone saying "hey wait a minute, you forgot <fact>.", and I'm not sure there's a way around that. At least not in history.

I totally agree. Those articles saved me a lot of time and were very helpful.

I like the concept, but one feature that would make this rock is audio recording.

When I'm in class, writing away on notes, I have a hard time listen and writing at the same time. Let me scribble away while the pad records in tandem. That would be neat.

I like your idea of moving around every so often, keeps things fresh. I'm going to try this out more.

I would love to see some pictures of what you're describing.

I agree, and perhaps I should have added that into my comment.

For a newbie, have them walk through it, but for the repeated process, then automate it.

I don't understand the point of using a one-liner vs just doing it in a process and getting an understanding of whats going on at each step.

Also, use PIP and VirtualEnv! Makes deps and packages so easy. Especially with virtualenvwrapper.

I don't understand what you're getting at.

It's something people working on projects at BigCo's do in lieu of actual work. It's pantomiming execution instead of executing.

This is, generally, how I feel about ToDo lists.

I can sympathize. Right there with you buddy.

Cheesy, but I use types of birds, based on what the machine reminds me of.

    iPhone — Chickadee
    Macbook — Pigeon
    MacbookPro — Peregrine
    Time Capsule — Grouse
    Windows box — Dodo

I upvoted it so that it bubbles to the top where it can be easily seen. Not sure if that's the motive of others.

Pandora radio on "Mr Scruff", lots of chill nu-jazz and such. Not much vocals, aside from samples here and there. Love it, stream it all day.

I can confirm that I ran into this too. Went back to the homepage and tried again, worked.

It will be sad to see Delicious go, if it indeed does.

I would also like to point out http://pinboard.in/howto/#import

    In my first year in a lab I built a program 
    that scrapes the NIST spectral database, reads the data 
    from a spectrum analyzer attached to the computer, and
    figures out which types of atoms the thing the spectrum 
    analyzer is looking at contains. This is harder than it 
    sounds.