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Aug201006

Eli

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Javascript — Illusive Location Object

Last week I was work­ing with URLs in a javascript project at work, I remem­bered that JS has a nice window.location object that has eas­ily accis­ble prop­er­ties, like window.location.protocol that will out­put http: for the URL of this blog, and window.location.search will give every­thing after the ques­tion mark (from this: http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&q=example&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= get only num=50&hl=en&q=example&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=). So I […]

Jul201026

Eli

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Firefox upcoming feature: Tab Candy — Just in case you’ve missed it

This fea­ture already gain­ing a lot of atten­tion, and I believe that once it shows up, and peo­ple really start extend­ing it, it will be one of the Killer Fea­tures that Fire­fox will have to offer. Some­thing that is really needed for Fire­fox to start bit­ing back some mar­ket share from Chrome. An Intro­duc­tion to […]

Jul201025

Eli

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Single command to generate & copy public SSH key

I always for­get how to run this sim­ple com­mand, so I’ll just leave it here so you can use it and I won’t for­get it. Reg­u­lar Gen­er­ate & Copy pub­lic SSH keys $ ssh-keygen; ssh-copy-id user@host; ssh user@host Just change the user@host and you’re on your way. Cus­tom Port If your host has a dif­fer­ent SSH access port, then […]

Jul201025

Eli

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Competition doesn’t always produce better performance

Competition doesn’t always produce better performance

An inter­est­ing test results show that humans per­form bet­ter when com­pet­ing against teams/individuals of a lower class. i.e. A good devel­oper would work faster when com­pet­ing against a new­bie or a worse-performing devel­oper. This could mean a lot, and per­haps explain why some places can­not man­age sim­pler tasks they did man­age before bring­ing in some […]

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