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At Home:

Macbook Pro
External 24″ Monitor
Slim Mac Keyboard
Crappy Dell USB Mouse
Gmail
Synergy
TextMate
iTerm
MySQL
SQLite
Python
Ruby
Firefox
Firebug
QuickSilver
SVN
Adium
Quinn
CyberDuck
Skype

At Work:

Dell OptiCrap with an shitton of RAM
XP Pro SP2
Dual 19″ Widescreens
Visual Studio 2008, 2005 (c#)
Python (one off scripts/text parsing jobs)
VMWare Workstation

Ubuntu Server
Fedora Core
Vista x64
Windows Server 2003

Notepad++
OneNote
Outlook =[
Visio
Pidgin
Firefox
Firebug
Launchy
TortoiseSVN
WinSCP
Unlocker

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If you blow a tech interview because you are greatly under qualified and honestly don’t know the things required for the job, but they still give you an offer anyway, DON’T TAKE THAT JOB. It’s a trap. It most likely means the people hiring you are less competent than yourself and you’re going to be [...]

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I might stop by from time to time to see what’s going on, but I’m out. This is just total bullshit.

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It’s pretty funny that we actually have Microsoft to thank for the original XHR. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in their R&D labs.

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This guy is so great. First JSON message failed because of JavaScript limitation on not allowing reserved keywords as name part of object literals.

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This Greenhouse business is ridiculous. Most downloader-type applications are. Do I really have to:

Download the Greenhouse installer (2.6M)
 Open the file only to have it immediately start downloading what I can only assume is the core of some bit-torrent-esque windows client (Indeterminate size)
Start the application to go download the FREE content I’m looking for

Has the world [...]

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My first programming internship used VB6 (1998), and it was great at the time. My first real job was mainly Classic ASP (2001), and I didn’t have a problem with that either. We just got back a proposal from a consulting company to revamp one of our aging CD-ROM based products and my jaw hit [...]

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“Hey guys, wouldn’t it be cool if people could put pictures of anything they wanted on the internet?”
Marc Andreessen is one of my heroes, but I realized today that he’s indirectly responsible for inflicting goatse and tubgirl on the world. I guess someone would have proposed this sooner or later.

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Alt+Enter brings up the properties panel for items in Windows. I did not know this. Equivalent in most cases to right clicking, properties but much much faster.

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This seems to be a fairly undocumented hot topic that I’ve been trying to find an answer to for the last couple of days. Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in SugarCRM or LDAP, but I finally got it up and running. Here’s my settings for getting SugarCRM Version [...]

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