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Believe it or not, it's partly thanks to you, HN, that I wrote this book in 2014 in the first place [1]! It's humbling to see it listed here again now that the
by jeroenjanssens 9y ago
Believe it or not, it's partly thanks to you, HN, that I wrote this book in 2014 in the first place [1]! It's humbling to see it listed here again now that the text has become available under a CC BY-ND license. Thank you for your help in spreading the word.
All this attention (read: likes, shares, and page views) is making me wonder whether it's worthwhile to write an update (or even a second edition). What do you think? What would you like to see changed or added?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190
- utefan001 9y agosort | uniq -c | sort -n example in chapter 5 is something I use a lot. Do you typically use Mac or Linux? The way Mac does threading made sort 16 times slower on 1GB+ size files compared to my $300 old Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu.
- vondur 9y agoHave you tried installing it from homebrew? brew install coreutils This assumes you have brew installed.
- utefan001 9y agoYea, same issue with gnu coreutils. Mac uses a fairness threading algorithm, causing lots of time to be wasted deciding whose turn it is. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28888719/multi-threaded-c-program-much-slower-in-os-x-than-linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28888719/multi-threaded-...