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Tags in OS X are a quietly powerful way to organise files on your Mac. With Alfred, you can turn these simple tags into a great way to access collections of files, wherever they may be on your Mac and regardless of the file name.


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Andrew Koenig first coined the term "antipattern" in an article in JOOP[1], which is sadly not available on the internet. The essential idea (as I remember it [2]) was that an antipattern was something that seems like a good idea when you begin, but leads you into trouble.


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The second half of the 20th century was marked by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States (and its allies) and the Soviet Union (and its). While the two major powers never fought a major battle, the hostilities were most definitely real.


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For the next 20 weeks, I’m going to lead the charge on The Tiny Gains Challenge. Along the way, you’ll learn how to build better health habits, avoid injury, and get leaner and stronger in the easiest way possible.


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One of the most interesting, however rarely commented, features of Pandoc is its support for LaTeX templates. Pandoc templates allows us to keep writing mostly in Markdown, instead of falling back to LaTeX, even if we have to produce documents that wouldn't be considered as "normal".


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Basically, these are scripts I've written over the years to scratch various itches I've had. All parts of all scripts were written by me, unless otherwise stated.


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The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.


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Just as lots of people wanted to buy the world a Coke, as the classic 1970s ad goes, a big chunk of the population today yearns for nothing but "Mexican Coke," seemingly the same brown fizzy liquid in the classically curvaceous bottle—but with one important difference.


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From 1967 until their breakup in 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival (“CCR”) was a tour de force in the American music world. The band, led by frontman John Fogerty, released seven studio albums, six of which received Platinum recognition from the Recording Industry Association of America.


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On October 27, 1962, the world held its collective breath as Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union neared its breaking point.


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Barrett Riddleberger says we should take 6 pleasurable steps to eliminate procrastination: availability, atmosphere, attire, appetite, audio and actions. When it comes to academic writing, I suggest one more step: using an appropriate word processor.


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Just about every academic has faced this conundrum. LaTeX is more or less necessary for academic work involving any kind of maths or tables (unless you want to spend hours on Microsoft Equation Editor), but maybe not everyone in your department uses it.


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In November of 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President of the United States. Three years later, he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, shot while in a motorcade going through Dallas, Texas. Had Richard Paul Pavlick gotten his way, Oswald would have never gotten to pull the trigger.


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The Mosuo are a small ethnic group living in China, near Tibet, mostly in the Himalayas. The Mosuo culture is one lacking in modernity. It is mostly agrarian, with many products handmade by family members.


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This is a simple python library for parsing and manipulating GPX files. GPX is an XML based format for GPS tracks. You can see it in action on my online GPS track editor and organizer.


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A bit of background information on me, – I am a 32 year old Senior System Developer and a devoted family man, the Vice director in my household. I have an exciting job that I love with my fair share of challenges but have always felt the need for a side project.


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Daily plans are tricky. As I’ve long maintained, if you don’t give your time a job, it will dissipate in a fog of distracted tinkering. Simply having a to-do list isn’t enough: you need to provide the executive center of your brain a more detailed target to lock onto.


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How much time do you spend getting ready for your day… before starting it? Planning your day is one of the most important things you can do before heading out the door.


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Coffee has a pretty distinctive aroma — for many people, the smell alone can help them wake up, although it likely leads to a craving for a cup. If you’re Starbucks, Tim Horton’s, or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, that aroma can be a pretty powerful tool for that very reason.


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They want to get healthy and fit, but can’t seem to stick to a diet or exercise plan. They start, and then fail, and then feel bad about it. This was where I was 10 years ago, and I’m happy to tell you that it’s possible to change.


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It's possible that you have never written a bad line of code. Possible, but unlikely in the extreme. The reality is that you, like every other developer on this planet, creates security flaws, misaligns UI elements, and more. It's not that you're a bad developer. You just happen to be human.


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How does JavaScript pass parameters into functions?  I have seen a lot of confusion and misunderstanding on this topic for several years.  Even among people that consider themselves JavaScript experts.


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It started with an intriguing title — “Ronda Rousey: The World’s Most Dangerous Woman” — and then a picture of a “James Bond”-type beauty. Now, I normally wouldn’t click on stuff like this, but today I had a day off, the kids weren’t fighting and I thought, OK, sure.


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Cruising down Main Street, Ron Dinmitrakopoulos’s bike looks like a mobile vendor shop from a distance. Some rallygoers might even think they’ve spotted a bar on wheels.


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In 1949, Pope Pius XII honored a Brazilian philanthropist named Francisco Scarpa for his charitable contributions, making Scarpa a Count. His son Chiquinho… well, he marches to the beat of a very different drum.


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Chances are, somewhere in your kitchen, you have a version of the measuring cup pictured above — if not multiples.


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In 1992, Disney released Aladdin, an animated adaptation (to use the term “adaptation” very loosely) of the Arabian Nights folk tale of the same name. The movie was a huge success, garnering two Academy Awards among dozens of honors and accolades – and making bucket loads of money.


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California’s Santa Catalina Island — also called simply Catalina — is located in the Pacific Ocean, about an hour’s ferry ride from the greater Los Angeles area.


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Windows 10 includes a lot of interesting new tools, but if you’re like a lot of computer users, more and more of your digital life is happening in your web browser and nowhere else. That being the case, you’ll want to keep your most important websites close at hand.


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Your boss may be awesome. I’ve certainly had a few awesome bosses in my programming career, but even the most awesome bosses don’t always seem to “get it.”


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Most famous pieces of stolen art are stolen because they’re famous. But the picture above — a 1949 painting by the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali — is famous because it was stolen. Really, that’s how Wikipedia describes it: “It is perhaps best known for its theft and return.”


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A highly functional toolkit to help jump-start a typical responsive web design project. This is a full-featured variation of the more basic responsive starter kit which was primarily created for instructional purposes to introduce basic RWD concepts.


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It only takes seven minutes to change how you approach your day. Using the routine described below when you get to work will make a world of difference in your productivity, your attitude, your success, and your health. It's like the approach you make to the tee on a golf course.


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That’s a Northrop F-5, an American-built fighter aircraft. They’re still in use but were very common during the Cold War. And that is a MiG-21. It’s a fighter designed by the now-gone Soviet Union, and was also used in the Cold War.


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At 8:15 PM local time on February 19, 1994, paramedics brought 31 year-old Gloria Ramirez to the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital in California, pictured below.


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We’re still probably a few years away from universal wi-fi in the developed world. Many municipal wireless networks are planned or in the works, but there are few currently existing.


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