While reading about Joe Grossberg’s making it in the Mac world, I noticed the “ALT-.” bash shortcut (he mentions it in his post).
the fact that doing ALT-. at the bash command-line doesn’t behave normally. Instead of repeating the last argument of the previous command, it outputs some characters.
That was a new one for me. Needless to say, that one second later I was Googling for bash shortcuts, and another second later, I was scrolling through this excellent reference.
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Congratulations are due to my brother – he did it! He graduated from Intercollege (Limassol Campus) with Diploma (Associate Degree) of Computer Science. Good job, dude!
I’ve attended his graduation ceremony today and made a few snaps. We than moved on to the Chesters Bar for a couple of pints.
The rest of the pictures are in this Flickr set.
Technology has been marching forward in particularly large steps for the last hundred or so years. And with every step, there was a situation where some people had to convert to new professions, because their old ones were outsourced to technology. Some people though, managed to earn a living by doing the job better and cheaper.
As an example, high attitude workers come to mind. People, who work on high buildings and have special training are still sometimes cheaper than special equipment needed to get to those hights.
Thinking about this, I came to realize that such writers, radio commentators, and video people will have the same share in today’s technology advancement. Hiring a good writer for a blogging network, for example, is cheaper and easier to do than trying to outperform by optimizing the ads and SPAMing the hell out of the web to promote the resource. Good content brings audiences faster and for longer, than other “artificial” methods. So, those who can produce good content (talented radios, people with good voice and something to say, video crews) will (and already are) occupy that special place.
Just a thought.
I was scrolling through Matt Cutts’ blog, where I saw this entry about how to make your own favicon. I knew how to make a favicon for a few years now, but I since I was scrolling through (just to get the author’s style, etc) I read it. One sentence got my attention (see in bold, the second one is for the context):
That’s two dashes before the “color.†Silly WordPress converts it to a single long dash.
Being a non-native English speaker, I was amazed at that very moment. You see, most of my non-native English speaking friends, myself included, would’ve wrote “Stupid WordPress”, not “Silly WordPress”. Although both words are well known and are in active vocabulary.
And I was amazed by the difference that is made with just one word. In both cases, there is a complain towards WordPress. But using “stupid” instead of “silly” suddenly makes it all heavy, rude, and accusative. “Silly” on the other hand is a much lighter version.
I’ll try to use “silly” instead of “stupid” from now on.