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Musings of an Anonymous Geek
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Musings of an Anonymous Geek is a personal blog at protocolostomy.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Technical, opinion, and random writings about Linux, system administration, scripting, Python, Perl, PHP, LAMP, technology, internet, web 2.0, networking, computer, UNIX, solaris, MySQL, database, sql, open source, EC2, cloud computing, utility computing, Apple, and more.
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Usually, with programming languages, that refers to having a wide standard library that allows you to complete many basic or common functions without downloading 3rd party or additional libraries. https://protocolostomy.com/2010/01/22/what-batteries-include...
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on “Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch”Submitted If You Don't Date Your Work It Sucks (date as in time, not as in romance) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionWing and Komodo IDE are great if you get somebody to shell out the cash. I think everybody should have a main editor, that may or may not be vim or emacs, but also learn one of these, since they will always be available on whatever platform you're forced to use. http://praisecurseandrecurse.blogspot.com/2008/04/abysmal-st... http://www.protocolostomy.com/2008/04/28/ubuntu-804-and-pyth... http://news.ycombinator.com/…
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on “Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?”Submitted Why should I pay for this AWS design decision? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Are You Staffing Your Startup? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Remote Workers and Working Remotely as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is how I want all opensource project web sites to look… as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCharm is My New Python IDE as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good Things Come in Threes: Python Cookbook, Third Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim messing up indentation on your pasted code? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCon Talk Proposals: All You Need to Know And More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pyrabbit Makes Testing and Managing RabbitMQ Easy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex-Googlers Score with Likaholix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud computing hype overload as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plug-ins: isn’t there a better way? as a story · 1 points
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