Git Notes

I have recently taken the plunge into learning Git. These are my notes thus far. git init git status git remote (list local “remote” aliases) git remote add/rm [url] (creates a new alias) git add (add changes; those could be in files or directory structure) git add -p (add changes per chunk in a file!) …

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14 June 2011 – 08:42:10 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Programming, Software, Unix/Linux | Tagged |

Scarcity vs Abundance Quiz

How do you think about money? Read each question and pick the answer that most closely resembles the way that you think. 1) My friend lands a new job that pays a lot more than money than my job does, and it has amazing benefits, including 4 weeks of vacation. I feel very excited for …

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10 May 2011 – 20:50:09 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Philosophic | Tagged , , , , |

Misplaced Roles

In response to the idea of withdrawing our troops from the world as mentioned by Ron Paul in a recent blog post of his. Initially, I was wary about the idea of pulling our troops out. But I am sure that is because I have not understood everything. The problem with forming an opinion on …

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09 May 2011 – 13:04:29 | By Jonathan | Posted in Philanthropic, Philosophic, Political |

What is Easter?

I was just imagining what it would be like to happen upon an American Easter celebration with no prior knowledge of the holiday or accompanying traditions. It would probably seem that Easter is about a magical bunny… that lays eggs. Eggs that mostly contain sugary treats, though occasionally there are other things in the eggs, …

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25 April 2011 – 14:26:05 | By Jonathan | Posted in Philosophic, Religious | Tagged , , , |

My Vim Cheatsheet

A while ago I read some Vim tutorials that were written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier and found them to be an excellent source of quick tips for a cheat sheet. So I set out to create a cheat sheet I could hang near my computer. I finally got around to finishing it. So I am …

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25 February 2011 – 15:08:55 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming, Unix/Linux |

Is there a situation where democracy won’t work?

This important question was asked and answered by Clayton M. Christensen on 16 May 2009 in a commencement speech given at Southern New Hampshire University. I encourage everyone to read this speech. Here are a couple of quotes from it that caught my attention: Too often, as a result, we overlook an obvious fact: finding …

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22 February 2011 – 11:48:53 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Philosophic, Political, Religious |

AWS Free Tier Micro Instance 101

I recently decided to hop on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier, and see what it was all about. I use regular AWS services at work quite a bit so I am not a newcomer to the AWS world. However, this was my first foray in to the Free Tier offering. I created this …

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17 February 2011 – 14:29:20 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, System Administration | Tagged , , , , , |