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Show respect for your users. Let them skip the easy stuff.

I wish games with multiple rounds would notice that I mastered the easy levels, and let me skip them. This comes up in games like Plants vs Zombies, or Doodle Jump, where the first two minutes of each are nearly no challenge at all. I’d like to pass a certain checkpoint (something fairly hard) and [...]

Mistakes A Noob Makes In Vim

A noob uses the arrow keys. The First Commandment of vim is “Thou shalt not use the arrow keys, for they be too far from thy holy home row. Use instead the blessed h, j, k and l.” A noob does not know his motions. When a noob deletes a word, he holds ‘x’. When [...]

Too Many Software Updates on OS X?

You can tell OS X to only check for updates monthly: