Creating a new project in Mercurial versus SVN

One of the most annoying things about creating new SVN projects is the new project dance:

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The Sprint SERO plan

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Open season for headhunting Yahoos

None of my resumes floating around on the internet have my current job listed because I get enough calls and emails (mostly from Minneapolis, but some from the SF Bay Area) from recruiters attempting to help me find a job.

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Smart pricing for iphone

Going to NYC really made me want a new phone. Primarily just to have Google Maps telling me where stuff is. So I’ve been looking at prices (theoretically for my wife and myself) more closely. Despite both devices being different, I’m treating them essentially the same:

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Screen

Screen is AWESOME!

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nginx proxying to apache

I gave up on fastcgi with NginX and django. Too many things just didn’t work, so I decided to keep Apache, but lock it down and thrown NginX in the front to serve static content and to prevent max client issues.

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Surgical Precision versus Brute Force

Wireless networking can be troublesome… usually I never have problems, but every now and then I’ll go to a coffeeshop or a café where I can’t just open up my laptop and immediately start surfing.

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