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Six reasons to define constructors with only one argument

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:48:09 +0000

Tags: #imported:pinboard #javascript #tips #tricks #webdev

Show all TODOs and a few relative lines after it.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:26:14 +0000

Tags: #dev #shell #todo #tricks

What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? - Stack Overflow

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:15:38 +0000

"However, I don't refer to commonly used shortcuts that a noob would find cool. I am talking about a seasoned unix user (be she/he a developer, admin, both, etc), who thinks (s)he knows something 99% of us never heard or dreamed about. Something that not only makes his/her work easier, but also is COOL and hackish. After all, vim resides in the most dark-corner-rich OS in the world, thus it should have intricacies that only a few privileged know about and want to share with us."

Tags: #howto #tips #tricks #vi #vim

Locus Online Perspectives: Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:42:44 +0000

"These facts were a currency in my social circle. We'd trade them like baseball cards. I'd show you my payphone trick and you'd show me your gag for turning the cellophane on a cigarette pack into a smoke-ring machine. Social capital accrued to everyone who could show or explain something that gave you power and insight into the mysterious workings of the world."

Tags: #culture #diy #hacking #ideas #invention #scifi #socialcurrency #technology #tricks

Slice a bottle in half ... with string | Wonder How To

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:21:43 +0000

"The ingredients necessary are simple: string, acetone and a match. ... The clean break in the glass occurs when the exact ring of heated glass comes in contact with the cold water. Thermal shock slices the bottle in half."

Tags: #acetone #bottles #science #tricks #videos

Glibness — Automate firing of onload events

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:12:35 +0000

"I’ve often had to set up onload events that execute for only a single page. ... The below solution keeps things unobtrusive."

Tags: #js #tricks #webdev

Wine X Magazine - Dishwasher Salmon

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:25:49 +0000

"Poaching fish in the dishwasher is a virtually foolproof way to shock your friends, prepare a succulent meal and do the dishes"

Tags: #cooking #hacks #nifty #tricks #weird

Writing Hacks, Part 1: Starting - scottberkun.com

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:45:51 +0000

"It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's its fear of not writing well; something quite different."

Tags: #hacks #tricks #writing

tricking iT 2 - Google Video

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:06:42 +0000

"Awesome free style Defrag quake 3 video, awesome blossom tricks."

Tags: #awesom #gaming #quake3 #tricks #trickshooting #video

YouTube - 1000 Arten ein Bier zu öffnen

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:21:10 +0000

A crapload of ways to open a beer bottle

Tags: #beer #tricks #videos

Tricks of the Trade: Typist

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:57:51 +0000

"If you're a hunt-and-peck typist and would like to train yourself to touch type, go grab some interactive fiction games "

Tags: #hacks #ifiction #lifehacks #nifty #tricks #typeing

NESVideos / Super Mario Bros Tricks

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:02:10 +0000

"This page attempts to explain all of the tricks and glitches used in the various movies for the different Super Mario Bros. games."

Tags: #bugs #gaming #hacks #interesting #mario #nes #nifty #nintendo #tricks

Use CVS to synch login scripts, etc. amongst machines

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:16:34 +0000

Tags: #programming #tricks