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Cool tricks, but reads like a how-to of things not to do when writing any type of code and deploying it. A Jedi? Maybe at getting himself out of the quicksand
by kelvin0 12y ago
Cool tricks, but reads like a how-to of things not to do when writing any type of code and deploying it.
A Jedi? Maybe at getting himself out of the quicksand he lays himself into ...
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- walshemj 12y agowouldn't a simple Perl script and cron do the job I recall back I 2000 doing 20 line script in an afternoon that tied together one of the major exhibits at the millennium dome that my employer was sponsoring - the 3d scanner booth thing from memory.
- gerner 12y agoYou're right, quicksand all around. However, the post illustrates an important feature I often see overlooked: the systems we build on top of are not just black boxes. We should not be afraid to really understand how they work, opening up source code, asking questions like, "what the heck is this /proc/NUMBER section of the filesystem?" And I think this post illuminates that in a pretty fun way.
- ttsiodras 12y agoOh come on :-) You're telling me that you've never - under tremendous pressure - hacked things that quickly "handle" something - and then forgotten about them till much later? Jeez, tough crowd :-)
- mst 12y agoThose who do, blog. Those who don't, snark at those blog posts on HN.