Zhyl

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by Zhyl 7y ago
What's the name of the bash feature with the '<' before the filename? I want to read the docs on it but I don't even know what to search for.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Regular expressions are one thing I would want to teach non-technical people. So many day-to-day tasks, especially in normal office work could be made trivial.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
How is that different?
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by Zhyl 7y ago
IANAL but with my 10 mins of googling I've found the following: * Items/characters cannot be trademarked unless they are the source of goods or services (so therefore this service would have the right whereas JK. Rowling et al wou
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I'm surprised you managed to get the Copyright for 'Horcrux'. Did you have to licence it at all?
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I think having to type the wrong answer in deliberately multiple times or complete the process without internet access is beyond unfriendly.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
At this point they've crossed over from 'dark pattern' to 'black magic fuckery'.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I thought this was going to be an exposé about how SaaS platforms changing functionality or UI design with little or no notice are undermining employee confidence and causing loss of productivity but it seems it more like Cambridge Analytic
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by Zhyl 7y ago
A forum I was on in 2006 had "reputation" which was a proto-like button. It had rules (can only rep a person once in a set period, can't rep more than 10 people a day). The higher the rep you had, the more your repping affect
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>Publicly take back Microsoft's attacks on copyleft made in the 2000s. Ballmer called the GPL a "cancer". Allchin called it "un-American". (from the "Suggestions I gave to Microsoft" section) This is so
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>I don't know about you people but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do - Gavin Belson, Silicon Valley
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I would expand on that and say 'concise code executed by directly invoking the parser in a shell-like environment using special flags such as a,n,p and e.'
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by Zhyl 7y ago
The short answer is "Management". Management is the different between you being given ample time to do a straightforward or decently challenging task, and being given a ridiculously small amount of time to do something impossible.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
In addition to the 'practice' stated elsewhere, the other thing someone needs to really get to grips with something like regex is a 'reason'. I never really got the point of regexes until I discovered capture groups. Pre
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Jonathan Palardy 'Why Learn AWK' [1]. I'd tried to learn awk a few times but just couldn't grok it. This essay gave me a lightbulb moment. Honourable mention to 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' [2], whic
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Is this not what is being withdrawn? But still, just going by the link you have a list of principles: https://beta.nhs.uk/service-manual/design-principles Which are all well and good, but are more akin to a 'visio
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I've responded to their email address about what would come next - in short I think they should publish high level requirements and principles that should be met by each platform. Rather than trying to create everything first party, th
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Because many of them, especially Haskell, have their roots in Mathematics which are famous for one letter variable names. Because the syntax favours terseness for readabilities sake (to see structure and patterns rather than reading a descr
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>If you type anything into Google's search box, your search will be recorded and preserved forever so that Google's engineers can analyze usage patterns. How else would they improve their search algorithm? Or only retain the da
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by Zhyl 7y ago
This is fine for this guy, but not repeatable. When it's one guy its a fun story - a performance piece almost. When it's repeated, staged or even just fabricated then you have the beginnings of a new form of clickbait.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Have more of a sense of humour about it. I think most complaints I've seen about people on this seem to mostly be tonal.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
The company has a shell script running in Cron. If it finds a source file with more than 1000 lines it deletes the author from the payroll.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Gaming has come a thousand miles in the last 18 months. It's now possible for a relatively layman user to be able to install and run games using steam and lutris with no issues.
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Yes. The same would apply to other areas as well. For example, a colleague of mine set up this weird elaborate web based data processing thing so that we could automate processing of files. I did the same thing he was trying to achieve with
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by Zhyl 8y ago
It's actually well documented that Facebook enabled and inflamed the Rhingya genocide in Myanmar. Here is an example article but there are many more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/facebook-role-r
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I would expect to see a small bump in the stats [1] which given this is DDG's main source of revenue is absolutely a good thing. "Duckduckgo is one of our main rivals." Is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy for Google. They
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by Zhyl 8y ago
I've been getting into i3, but I haven't made any use of i3-msg yet. Are there any good tutorials to get started?
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by Zhyl 8y ago
If they refactored Firefox OS to be a ChromeBook competitor, sure. They heavily marketed their phones to the developing world markets. I may be wrong, but I have a suspicion that Chromebooks only got a foot in the door in the education sect
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by Zhyl 8y ago
Yeah, FFOS essentially had the SteamOS problem - targeting a market that didn't have any 'wedge' users in their existing demographics. For Firefox OS and Steam OS to take off you needed to buy new hardware and the people most
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by Zhyl 8y ago
As a gamer, I haven't really dived into Itch even though I see it recommended all the time. This is despite being a Linux gamer, a fan of indie games, a supporter of open source and a believer in multiple marketplaces (although I feel

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