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What do you Google EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and never just memorize?

Ben Halpern on October 19, 2017

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Valentin Baca • Edited
  • Converting Array<->List in Java*. Been coding Java for 6+ years and still don't care to learn/memorize this.
  • Objective-C block syntax

  • bash test format and flags

  • vim macro create and execute

I noticed I could never remember these, so I always make aliases, shell functions, or short ~/bin/ scripts for them instead:

  • tar: xkcd.com/1168/

  • netstat flags (other than "-tulpn" which I have memorized as "tull-pin" like "Tolkien")

  • ssh tunnel syntax

Edit: *in one-line.
Array to list:

String[] array = ...;
List<String> immutableList = Arrays.asList(array);
List<String> mutableList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(array));

List to array:

List<String> list = ...;
String[] array = list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);

Clear as mud...

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Oscar

Helpful protip. I learned yesterday, that list.toArray(new String[0]) is faster than the version with the explicit size given.

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Lynne Tye

I was about to write the same thing. How to vertically align elements... without using flex 😂

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Sarah Chima

Regex. While I understand how it works and how it can be used, it's difficult for me to memorize the right regex that should be used at every point. So I just google whenever I want to make use of it. :)

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Ben Halpern

Oh yeah that's a big one

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Tiago Marques

I was just like that... but then I've found regex101.com/ and now, I'm almost proficiente writing regex!

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gustavo

regex101 is the single best resource I've ever found for regex.

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Miff

It's funny in my case. I know enough regex to get by, but I generally need to google to find out how to actually apply it.

Do I need RegExp.prototype.test or String.prototype.match in JS? What are the order of parameters in preg_match in PHP? What are the little parentheses things called in .NET, captures or groups?

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Andrew

I had the same problem, until I found Rubular:

rubular.com/

Bonus tip: making a permalink will also save all the test cases used. Makes for an excellent inline comment!

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Kwabena Bio Berko

Me too!
Hahaaahaa

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Roger Paviani

Same here...
BTW, I knew someone must've been written about regular expressions when I read the title.. 😂

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George Offley

I always have to Google regex. Or copied old code.

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Jens Genberg

I can never remember how it works either. I found this to be helpful, though! regexr.com/

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Reynaldo Jose Abreu • Edited

Same here. I can only remember $,,*,+ and /s /w. I always end up up googling an example and going from there.

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Ben Halpern

For me it's "manually start postgresql"

Every once in a while my postgres server isn't running and I know to punch that into my browser and land on this Stack Overflow question, where I proceed to copy this command into my terminal:

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

It happens infrequently enough that I never bother to alias it or remember how to type it out. I just remember what to Google.

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Galdin Raphael

I have postgres installed via homebrew. So I use brew info postgres to copy the start command :)

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lepinekong

So did I then I realize how many precious minutes of my life I'm losing so I decided to buy a domain for 75 cents mycodesnippets.space :) I write things down little by little as soon as I need it the first time or I risk to never do it by lazyness !

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Kaustav Banerjee

cant you just sudo service postgresql start ? :P

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shelby spees (she/her)

On Linux, yes. On OSX, no unfortunately.

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Srikanth

I was gonna say this. Have bookmarked the stackoverflow post on this. :D

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Kwaku Eshun

Oh yes, I even googled and used this today because my service keeps stopping.

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Amin Arria

How to make a tar file...

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damian

at least extracting is easy (say it in a german accent) tar -xzf "xtract ze files"

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Chrissy Wainwright

and -czf == 'compress ze files'

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Amin Mohamed Ajani

well what works for me is tar -xzvf "xtract ze vucking files"
No kidding that's how remember it

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Amin Arria

That's a great way! Jajajaaj

But it's important to note that tar is smart enough to detect the format so I prefer the general tar -vxf

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dean

Thank you so much.

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Florian Reuschel

Even though as a German with decent English pronunciation this is a little bit insulting, I'll probably never forget this ever again. Thanks! 🙈

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Jonas Gauffin • Edited

Isn't that for zipped tar files? -xzf = extract zipped (tar) file.

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tbodt • Edited

xkcd tar

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B. Agustín Amenábar Larraín

I threw this one at a dev I used to work with. He answered instantly, he could have disarmed 2 bombs with that speed.

Instant respect gained

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Sanjayshr • Edited

I figured out how to remember it. To create tar, use c option and for extracting replace c with x ==> $tar will remain same for both Lol :) . tar -cvf filename.tar file/dir_path && tar -xvf filename.tar.

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brandonhowkins02 • Edited

Hey, I also want to make a tar file for my website name:Lenny face. Let me know if the given suggestions works for you!

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Dave Jacoby

sed and awk and how to use them.

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Tony
  • Creating SSH Keys
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Martin Kiesel

I just ssh-k ↑ in zsh and just list all previous key generation commands or if I am not sure what I am looking for I use fzf

# fh - repeat history
fh() {
  print -z $( ([ -n "$ZSH_NAME" ] && fc -l 1 || history) | fzf +s --tac | sed 's/ *[0-9]* *//')
}
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Chad Kunde

I was helping someone with this earlier this year. Ended up creating a helper for it:

gist.github.com/Kunde21/3633e1e9ef...

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Mathieu PATUREL

Suprised tldr didn't got mentioned.

It's a pretty neat tool to do this kind of things...

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ImTheDeveloper

Best link I've seen all week. Heroic!!!!!

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@ScottFred

That's awesome! thanks

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Aidan Harding

Javascript array methods. Is this one in-place, or returning a new array? I don't know, but MDN does!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

And centering things. Completely clueless every time.

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Andrew

here's a handy multiple choice questionnaire!

howtocenterincss.com/

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Michael Minshew

holy crap, whoever made this site needs a medal. Great recommendation!!!

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z0al

How to extract tar.gz file in Linux command line!

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dean • Edited

Saw a comment from above and it changed my life.

tar -xzf filename xzf = "Xtract Ze Files!" (german accent)

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ErwanDavid

Excellent, noté that you may get ride of the dash.

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Galdin Raphael • Edited

tar -xf filename

Read as tar eXtract File filename.
Saw this on an SO answer and never had to google it ever again :)

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z0al

Wow, I never thought of it.

Thanks :)

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Igal Tabachnik

How to delete a remote branch in git.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Cherry picking commits in git, because I can never remember if it's cherrypick or cherry-pick

A more efficient way would be to just do it and correct if it errors, or alias it to git cherry or something

Also, how to exit vim, and how to insert in vim, and basically how on Earth did I end up in vim omg get me out

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Eljay-Adobe

I've been using Vim now for about 24 years. Primarily because I don't know how to quit.

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Bart Karalus

I would be responsible for 95% of hits coming from google search into the Tutorialpoint's html5 minimal template. Now I could easily type it in every time I set up a new page, but it is now a matter of extreme laziness I think.

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Sakib Hadžiavdić

How to "unignore" files with git... Here is a nice and short way.

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Paula

This is stupid but g++ compiling filename and output order in the terminal. I've been doing it for four years now and still failing to remember.

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Kevin Le

regex

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Stefan Hecker

The same with me!! But I found VerbalExpressions (github.com/VerbalExpressions) to have solved it for me.

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Kevin Le

That is very good to know about.

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Ferocit

I usually just go to regexr.com and trial-and-error the syntax until it matches what I want.

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Ryan Haber

Regex kills me sometimes.

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

How to find out which process is listening on a certain point on my mac. I'm often switching between projects, and have a server from another project running on a port that I now need for another server.

And it looks like Heroku's CLI doesn't always stop all processes correctly when you stop it using ctrl+c

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Palle • Edited

You could add a function to your .bashrc to make this easier:

listening() {
    lsof -n -iTCP:$1 | grep LISTEN
}

Then (after restarting your terminal or typing source ~/.bashrc) type listening 8080 to find out what process is blocking that port.

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Loïc Giraudel

ln -s [source] [destination] or ln -s [destination] [source] ?
find . -name [...] -exec grep '...' {} \;

And of course sed, awk and more generally shell syntax (if, loops, switch, etc).

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Šimon Let

I got a good way to remember argument order for ln:
Destination is optional so it must go second.
By default ln creates a link with the name of the source in the current directory.

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Elliot Derhay

Oh yeah, linking. Forgot about that one (obviously, since I need to Google it every time lol).

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

How to properly write a Rails migration file.

Add a column? Huh? What???

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Ben Halpern

Oh yeah. I always copy and paste from old files.

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Ukaza Perdana • Edited

IIRC:

rails g migration AddStuffToTableName new_column1:integer new_column2:text #etc. etc.
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Sourav Ghosh

How to exit vim.

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Michael Whitis

Many moons ago, at one of my first jobs, I got myself in trouble with this. I was editing something in prod without knowing how to save or exit. I was a windows nt guy mostly. So, like one does, I hard-rebooted the server instead of asking for help... After the dust cleared, my boss made me sit at a keyboard for over an hour launching vim and learning how to at least save and exit. :) I have :wq, :q,:q! burned into my muscle memory to this day...

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shelby spees (she/her)

Oh god why did they have the new guy making changes in prod you poor soul

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ImTheDeveloper

Everything git related

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Harry Wood

Yeah. For some reason I really find some git procedures harder to memorise than others. It's ludicrous the number of times I've googled "git unadd a file" and "git reset branch to remote"

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George Offley

How to spell maintenance.

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Albrecht Scheidig

That's unneccessarrelly, but true.

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Angelika Tyborska

This! Plus a few other words: convenient, conscience, accommodate. I'm not a native speaker ;).

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Jim Schubert

I don't have to Google the spelling, but I'd say 99% of the time I type "valud". I say it correctly as "val-id" and only mistype because of the QWERTY keyboard layout. This is the only word that I consistently type incorrectly. It's not a speed thing (like "teh"), because it happens when typing slowly as well. I've been typing for a really long time and I'm beginning to think my brain just thinks this is a funny prank.

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Robin Goupil

As a non native english speaker:

slice()
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

vs

splice()
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
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Brett Stevenson

Usually, anything that is outside of my basic Git workflow.

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Rob Cameron • Edited

Find a file in Linux. I know it involves "find" and "name" but I have to look up the exact syntax each time. (For reference, the sledgehammer version is find . -name testfile.txt from the root of the drive.)

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Anton Linevych • Edited

How to type this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Den McHenry

The best thing they ever added to Slack was the /shrug command.

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Ben Halpern

Ha! Me too. I know to go straight to textfac.es

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Gilberto Alexandre dos Santos

PHP array_push and array_key_exists parameters order.

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Daan Wilmer

Argument orders in all array functions in PHP for me. That's just horrible. VSCode gives hints though, so that helps. I still have to look up the exact names of functions regularly, though.

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Erebos Manannán

this alone should tell you you need to use another language ;)

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Alejandro

text-overflow: ellipsis

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Kasey Speakman

Updating the list of git remote branches. It doesn't refresh when you sync so it will continue to list remote branches that don't even exist anymore until you manually run the command below. (Which I had to google again to put in this comment.)

git remote update origin --prune

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shelby spees (she/her)

Git, brew, and bundler all have some kind of prune flag so it's starting to stick for me.

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Oleksandr

easy to remember because it is like dried fruit!

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Aswath KNM

unzip a tar file especially with that different extensions .xz , .bz etc..

vim commands to cut,copy and paste

regex in python and other python builtins . Can't memorize the whole docs right ?

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Aaron Santos

vim...

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Jess Lee

RAILS MIGRATION

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Christopher McClellan

Setting firewall rules with iptables.

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Syntactic Sugar

Ever heard of ufw?

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Javier Guerra • Edited

How to flush DNS cache on OSX

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Matt Durr

I literally added an alias to my ZSH config for this one

alias flushdns='sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'

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Sung M. Kim • Edited
  1. I always Google how to create a webpack configuration file.
    • You need to be a 🚀👨‍🔬 to configure it from memory.
  2. Adding a style tag for CSS files 😝.
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David Vincent Gagne

MySQL and PHP date formatting. Every time. What’s weekday again?

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Hudson Burgess

"How to do x in CSS" where x is anything

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Jonathan Solis • Edited

How to git checkout a remote branch. I’m gonna try it it without googling

git remote add repoFork <url>
git fetch repoFork
git checkout —track repoFork/branch

I hope that’s right I just looked it up again yesterday

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juankOrtiz

My first choice was "Regex", but it seems you guys beat me to that choice.

So, without a shame I can say that everytime I search "how to insert an element at the end of another with jquery". Frigging append(), man.

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shelby spees (she/her) • Edited

What gets me is when I'm switching between languages. Java uses add, Python has append, and Ruby uses push. But then some gem will use add.

This is why I shamelessly use IDEs while everyone I work with uses vim.

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Marco Alka

flexbox and grid with all their different attributes and values :/

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Antonio Radovcic

The order of arguments for map/reduce/filter is JS. Was it (index, item) or (acc, index, item) or (item, index)....

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John Best

SQL syntax #ashamed.

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Yechiel Kalmenson
  • CSS attributes
  • Rails generators
  • ActiveRecord queries
  • Syntax for any function I don't use on a weekly basis
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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Its vs It's

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Max Antonucci

Vim commands.

Just...I can't even.

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Andrew

ever play:

vim-adventures.com/

?

bonus tip: a lot of unix commands support vim keys by default. i.e. less and man

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Ryan LaBouve

When I accidentally commit on master instead of a branch and I need to reset my master to match origin:

git reset --hard origin/master

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Jeroen Jacobs

How to use "find ... -exec ..." correctly.

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Florian Rohrer

How to use grep and find.
Also when I write data = {} in Python, is this a set or a dict?

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z0al

This can't be a Set

data = {}

It's always a dictionary!
If you want an empty Set use:

data = set()

P.S. it's handy to use the official Python REPL and type type(youvariable) ;)

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Jeremy Mikkola

The argument order to the various PHP array functions

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Brian Hanna

The arguments for JavaScript's array.slice method. Every. Damn. Time.

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Dylan

Everything! 🤪
But seriously, I think I do a lot of Googling (and looking at Documentation - same thing?) for things which are new or I'm uncertain of or if I'm working with an SDK like Firebase.
Is that the way I'm supposed to do it? 😂 I'd rather get things right first time rather than get it wrong and THEN Google. Sounds like the other things people Google are a lot more advanced. 😳

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Pablo Urcola

how to undo $whatever in git

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Nick Campbell

alias_method in Rails. Confusingly, the arguments are the opposite order to Kernel#alias. And the examples for both are terrible!

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Jonathan Clem

The order of arguments to the reduce callback or block in any language.

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Aaron Schlesinger

How to use ln. ln $LINK_NAME $TARGET or ln $TARGET $LINK_NAME? I can never remember

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Vincent Grovestine

In-place string substitution; usually performed on multi-gigabyte database dumps:

sed -i 's/STRING_TO_REPLACE/REPLACEMENT_STRING/g' reallybigdb.sql

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RobK

"github ssh-keygen example" :D

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Jorge Quijano

Exit vim

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Elliot Derhay

Array.prototype.map() callback param order.

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Said Arab

Selinux allow httpd

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GA

Yesterday was the first time I deleted a tag or branch (it was a tag) from a remote git repo without googling it first. Pretty proud of that.

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Cadell

ruby hashes lol

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Chad Windham

Most things sadly...

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Shilpa Jain

How to align div to the center. CSS. Every. Single.Time.

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Jonathan Völkle

git commands

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Brian Gallagher

Date formats. SQL/JS/PHP all format dates differently and each one has different placeholders. I can never remember them. Ever.

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Crashy

How to use fstream. 14 years doing c++ and still cannot open a file without looking at doc.

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ErwanDavid

Regexp, python join array to string, empty solr core, ssh tunnel local/remote port...

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Wilfredo Pérez

Git commands.

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No dab no life

Python's list comprehensions

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Me, myself, and Irenne • Edited

Great question, just need to firefox it. Definitely, will reflect on the question.

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Dwi purnomo

SQL query

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Anand B Pillai
  1. How to disable IPV6 on Linux
  2. Almost anything got to do with OpenSSL!
  3. How to cleanup docker ghost and dangling images
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Kamal Zairig

How to ignore chmod changes to files in Git :)

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Oreoluwa Ogundipe

Bootstrap default mobile navigations 😭

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salmanjawed98

Last character of string :p

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Ryan Silva

Javascript: substr vs substring. One takes start,end; other takes start,length. Would have been simpler if they only included one :(

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Leandro Bighetti

mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung

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George

Java decompilers/deobfuscator even though I have my own written

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Felippe Regazio

man, i have a good one for that. put a before with height 100%, display inline block and vertical align middle on your holder div. vertical align middle and display inline block to the elements.

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Daniel Waller (he/him)

Regexes, adding permissions in Android Manifest, how to update npm

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Kostas Setzas

Reset and revert on a git commit...

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Idan Arye

How to use HTTP client. I'm a polyglot programmer and I just can't memorize this in any of the languages I know...

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Elarcis

Wether I'm looking for Javascript's call() or apply().

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Shi Ling

How to kill a process running on some port.

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Richard Yhip

All the good ones are taken so I'll add one I haven't found: Markdown syntax.

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Albrecht Scheidig

Starting / stopping services in linux. And it changes far to often.

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LuisPa

I recommend devdocs.io

Offline docs! ⚡️

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Jason Walzak

how to use make on the command line.

i have a problem with my wifi and regularly have to reinstall the drivers I forget every time and I don't have wifi, so it's a pain in the butt.

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Sammy Israwi

Switch statement format. I always forget where the {} and the () go.

And of course Regex - because memorizing Regex notation and rules is a waste of energy

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Yann Rabiller

Writing an Apache/Nginx configuration file.

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Theofanis Despoudis • Edited

How to use grep, sed or make

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Daniel Kassen

Proper Regex syntax in the command line. "Wait I have to escape that?!"

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Guid75

For a long time it was the openssl sub commands, for instance to dump the text version of a certificate. :-)

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Phillip Smith

Iterating over keys in an object (#javascript)

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Gene

CSS vendor --prefixes!
I refuse to memorize them. Hopefully one day we will not need them anymore.
Another classic is RegEx =/ =)

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Kunal Dargan

How to install opencv using pip !

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imperatormk

How to redirect to URL with JS.

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Karolis Ramanauskas

How to restart nginx 🤷‍♂️

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Allan Kibet

How to set the php errors on

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Anton

How to compile from source code on linux.

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Aga Zaboklicka

I still can comprehend why, but:

rm -rf mydir

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LuisPa

Mixins React example.

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Gabriel Magalhães dos Santos

How to vertically center a div for all browsers

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Darran Boyd

How to grep a text file without comments (#) and blank lines!

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tarzan212

How to set up a docker container. Got to look this up every single time..

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flinkflonk

How to rescan the scsi bus. Probably not a dev thing to do, but certainly a devops thing.

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Adrián González

Python loop with condition

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Avi Kaminetzky

"delete solr data", to clear data in solr core.

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Rafael Acioly

How to stop tracking a file on git

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Rohit Awate

Which of Java's string manipulation classes, StringBuffer or StringBuilder is the thread-safe one. I'm gonna have to Google that again.

Buffer! That's the one.

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Elliot Derhay

How to list remote git branches.

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Ali Mujthaba • Edited

how to git ignore and how to discard current changes

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Bernhard Döbler

With how many 'm's do I write git amend?

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David J Eddy

docker log truncation

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Aaron Santos

Delete in SQL Server...

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Dave Stevenson

Glad I’m not alone with this one. Been doing rails since pre-1.0 and still google “active record migration” every time.

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Dazz Knowles

Updates with joins syntax in SQL. Always get the SQL Server and MySQL versions muddled.

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Lucas Meine

This command: su -s /bin/bash apache
On this link: linuxquestions.org/questions/linux...

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Chad Smith

Current UTC time. I will never remember what my time is in UTC time.

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Ghost

How to save and quit in vim

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Christopher C. Johnson

Some git commands and a lot of CSS stuff.

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Ugo Albarello

Fixing "orphaned" users in SQL Server

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Ben Hemphill

I always look up dd. Not because I don't remember the syntax, but because I am super respectful of its raw power to destroy my day if used wrong.

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Thomas Mayer • Edited

How to temporarily disable restraints in SQL and re-enable them.

OK, not really Googleing it, I have bookmarked the answer

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Paul McCarthy

IIS HTTP_HOST redirects, most regex, git beyond the basics.

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ErwanDavid • Edited

Tricky regex... empty a solr core... Python join array to string... Ssh tunnel local and remote port

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Adnan Rahić

Git revert. No chance to ever remember that.

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Spyros Mandekis

Anything related to the nc, telnet, iptables tools

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Bustanil Arifin

Almost every javascript library API...

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Rodrigo Amaro

When "gitignore is not ignoring" some file, there is always a line that I need to check to delete all the files from cache

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Carl Flor

How to revert my local branch to be exactly like its remote counterpart.


git reset --hard HEAD

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Andrew Marin

parameters for php date()

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Tiago Marques

what are the order of arguments in short-syntax CSS like padding, margin...

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Spyros Mandekis

mnemonic: it's clockwise starting from the top

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India Amos

Or, the more fun mnemonic I learned years ago: TRouBLe!

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Tiago Marques

Yeah, I was thinking about this discussion another day, and I remembered this mnemonic... But damn, when I need to use, I Forget about it 😅
But thanks to both of you guys!

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IsaacLeimgruber

Change column values pandas

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pranay rauthu

Slice vs splice in JavaScript

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liverlive

Git hard pull !!

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Eduardo Gómez Vásquez

How to delete a branch 😳

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Jason C. McDonald

Regex. Almost anything regex.

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Jake Casto
  • Converting StdClass <-> Array in PHP -> I always forget 'True' as the second arg of json_decode()
  • Git Commands
  • Format for PHP date()
  • Casting to a class in Python3
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Den McHenry

IIS error messages on the yellow screen of death (YSOD)

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Matt Ellen

What the trim function is called in python

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Ryan Haber

Any switches I don't use often with linux commands.

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Juanjo Salvador

Some CSS styles, mostly.

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KhoPhi • Edited

Installing NodeJS and having npm install global packages outside default folder.

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George Offley

The word "lieutenant"

And print statements for various languages.

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LuisPa

How to exit vim.

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Tyler Bodway

Ruby .strftime() formats

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Ajina Slater

simple_form methods. I'm always at the readme, never bookmarked.

And I still think "I really need to bookmark this" every time.

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gustavo • Edited

How to remove password expiration in Oracle. It always happens at the worst possible time, but not often enough to have it memorized.

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M.H.

Converting UNIX timestamp to Excel date-time format with the correct timezone.

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James Audry Spencer

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MetaDave 🇪🇺

Named captures in Ruby regex

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Nana

Grep recursively for a pattern

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Abdul Malik Ikhsan

substr or substring start from 0 or 1 in database and programming language specific

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Max Antonucci

How to cut and paste lines in VIM. I do this all the time when rebasing but can never remember the commands. I've just bookmarked the top result from each search for quick reference at this point.

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Juan Julián Merelo Guervós

R commands. ggplot2 options. Every single little thing in that language. I stopped learning at the <- for assignment.

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Jorge Araya

Memory is not needed when you have your technical notebook for annotations :) (I have mine using org-mode)

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Trisha Salas
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Nancy Deschenes

The order of the parameters in the function passed to $.each().

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ihosely

.gitignore is not working

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Andres Avila Wille

Inner joins. For some reason I always get close, but never get them completely right without some good ol' google help.

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Salazar

Everything related to timestamps and date formatting.

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Gawetaner

Objective-C block Syntax, i can‘t memorize it and i don‘t know why.

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Ahsan Ashraf • Edited

I recommend thefuck. brew install thefuck You will thank me for this message, I swear you will.

github.com/nvbn/thefuck/blob/maste...

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kaiser shahid

all sorts of PHP functions =/

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adnanisajbeg

How to close vim...

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Anthony Maldarelli • Edited

slice vs splice and css gradient syntax

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Guillermo Liss

CSS media queries !

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0x3d
  • Timestamp converter (instead of bookmarking one or using some CLI tool/$ScriptingLanguage)
  • How to set Duckduckgo as default search engine (only to annoy BigBrother :))
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Riekus van Montfort

Regex, every vim command ever

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Spyros Mandekis

regex101.com is a lifesaver!

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Shubham Sharma • Edited

Just to be sure, I google git commands quite often. Most probably because for each command my mind has given it a custom-name. So it kind of mixes up. LOL

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Chandu J S

carousel in bootstrap 😑