Mechanical snail

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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

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Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.

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Sep 15	suggested	suggested edit on Accidentally changed Bluetooth mode to off
Sep 13	comment	Any good SQL shell programs? Everything runs locally.
Sep 13	answered	which kernels can I safely purge?
Sep 13	revised	Any good SQL shell programs? added 370 characters in body
Sep 13	answered	Any good SQL shell programs?
Sep 13	comment	Ext4 volume as File on NTFS volume The NTFS driver is extremely slow with large files. You should resize the partitions instead.
Sep 13	comment	12.04 disabling keyboard and mouse What about your computer?
Sep 13	comment	How to upgrade from 32bit Wubi to 64bit Wubi? See also: askubuntu.com/questions/5018/…
Sep 13	comment	PAE on Ubuntu 12.04 What is the output of `uname -a`?
Sep 13	comment	12.04 disabling keyboard and mouse What hardware are you using?
Sep 13	comment	Remap a mouse button to act as control key Probably can be done, but would likely require fiddling with XKB.
Sep 12	comment	df reports an ext4 partition is full, but there is no data I think `lsof +L1` is a more reliable way to find open deleted files.
Sep 8	comment	I want “Sync Now” button in Ubuntu One This question is incomprehensible.
Sep 8	answered	Delta-update Firefox Aurora package from PPA
Sep 8	revised	Delta-update Firefox Aurora package from PPA more descriptive title
Sep 8	suggested	suggested edit on Delta-update Firefox Aurora package from PPA
Aug 24	answered	Is this external drive (verbatim 47564 320gb) recognized by Linux?
Aug 24	comment	Shortcut to Move Tabs in Firefox See superuser.com/questions/452298/…; the accepted answer works for me on Ubuntu.
Aug 20	comment	What's a screenshot application which will auto-upload to imgur? And it supports Imgur!
Aug 18	answered	Remove documentation to save hard drive space