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A Handful of Mac OS X Tips

In geeky on June 13, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Some things I’ve learned over the past few weeks:

  • I love one-finger tap to click. In the week I went without it, I never got used to the extra trackpad resistance at the edges. Also turned tracking speed way up.
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Short, fast micro-whois

In geeky, product management on March 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM

90% of my whois queries are to check whether a domain name is registered, where I don’t need any details. Here’s a Bash function to check domain availability; type one character, get one character.

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Temporary code never is

In geeky, product management on February 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM

Somewhere it’s the Third Rule of Software Product Development: never implement a feature poorly because you expect it to be thrown away. Sure, rewriting is expensive, and seeing a permutation of “spend time with no product gain” is thoroughly demotivating. But there’s 3 better reasons:

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