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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:59AM (#19085807)
That's it! Let me know how you like it. It's my first foray into writing books. Walking the line between utility and breadth is tough.
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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by fstarship on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:49AM (#19112084)
As a computer Science graduate with no experience doing images that section alone was worth getting the book for me. I plan on using at as encyclopaedia for future uses.

I am happy you had compatibility in mind as I am not super fussed on which operating system I use.

I would suggest adding a virtual desktop section as that has been the biggest gamechanger for me ( I use windows 10s with virtual desktop enhancer) I dont know any linux or mac equilivants though.

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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by jayjader on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:11PM (#19163580)
I'm pretty confident in claiming macOS and many Linux desktop environments natively support virtual desktops. It's really only Windows that doesn't.
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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:08AM (#19112140)
Glad that was useful, thanks for saying so! Great idea on virtual desktops.
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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:41AM (#19086248)
Bought it! I'll shoot you an e-mail with my thoughts once I'm through.
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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by fouc on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#19089260)
Hopefully you change the recommended tools based on the OS. (i.e. OSX would be slightly different from linux for certain commands). And focus on doing as much as possible from the command line?
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Re:MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools by acidburnNSA on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:19PM (#19089935)
I tried to highlight examples that are available on Mac, Linux, and Windows through the package managers, (homebrew, apt, chocolatey) and at least provided system-specific installation lines for each based on those. It is highly command-line and pure-text centric.
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