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Programmer's Notepad is amazing, its been my goto in Windows for well over a decade at this point. Has everything I need without any bloat, also work fine on large files (I often do regex-searches on huge log files with it).

X-series is always a safe bet if you want something a bit more portable than the T-series, but with the same build quality. I don't know about the newest (x280), but I'm rocking the previous X270 and I'm really happy with it.

I also never see people mention it, but the L-series feels a bit underrated. I handled some older ones the other day and was super impressed by the build quality. I think they go for like half the price of T-s too.

Julia 1.0 8 years ago

Even Visual Basic (of all things) allowed you to set it with Option Base. Never really understood why its not supported in more languages...

John Gabriel's Great Internet Fuckwad Theory

I think facebook has easily proven that the anonymity part of that equation is _very_ optional.

Laws of UX 9 years ago

Tesler's law really rings true in non-UX environments too. I have worked with several people insisting that you can somehow remove complexity by wrapping it in more levels of abstraction, which is utterly infuriating. Sometimes you really just have to accept that certain things are complex, and deal with it.

ASCIIFlow Infinity 9 years ago

Pretty cool, but the text tool really needs some figlet-like functionality with fonts and outlines!

I've just never understood why tar can't have sane defaults like zip. Why do you need three or four cryptic arguments to do the most basic use case?

Its like find. I try to remember the stupid syntax and just give up and use locate instead.

Never knew about readlink for files, but I use

  pwd -P 
all the time to get the real full path (no symlinks) of the current directory. Really easy to remember as well, Print Working Directory.
Opera is Reborn 9 years ago

The core team in Oslo got laid off after the webkit switch in 2013, not sure how many remained in the other teams. But as far as I know there is nothing but sales and admin left in Norway now.

Has there been any hints of adding default parameters to Java at some point? It's one of those things I find really useful in Python or C#, but for some reason never seems to find its way into Java.