September 2010
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HR Awesomeness!
The company I work for, Black Pixel, has been looking for a few new iOS developers, and the responses I’ve been getting to our ads have pretty much been uniformly subpar.
Finally, after reading yet another resume of someone claiming to have deep iOS development experience, I tweeted the following:
Protip: Comments like
”* Very familiar with X-Code”
in...
Efficient transfer of huge files between machines
I need to transfer 250gb of data between two machines over the lan.
Ladies and gentlemen, the tar trick. I only need this every two to five years, but when I need it, I really need it.
This tars up the contents of a directory and streams it as compressed data to a remote host. This is super efficient as:
1. The data is compressed before it is transferred, so overall throughput is greatly...
