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by darrenf 8y ago
All the pipes and non-builtin commands (especially python!) look like overkill to me, I must say. for set in *_data.csv ; do num=${set/_*/} success=${set/data/A} if [ ! -e $success ] ; then
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by darrenf 8y ago
> The best solution I have ever seen to global variables is definitely parameterize with Racket ( https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parameterize.html ). I don't think Racket was the first language to come up wi
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by darrenf 8y ago
Is DCVS not just a typo of DVCS, ie Distributed Version Control System, of which git is one?
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by darrenf 8y ago
I twitched horribly at the final sentence, screaming inwardly "you don't pipe to /dev/null, you redirect to it". And now I feel like an arsehole.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Surbiton to Richmond gets my vote. It's peaceful and beautiful and one time I did it Gloriana just happened to be going past. https://spark.adobe.com/page/LYVR3/ Edit: actually, Hampton Court to Richmond woul
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by darrenf 8y ago
As a born, bred, and resident South Londoner I feel compelled to beg to differ. For example I'm yet to discover something in North London as wonderful as the Crystal Palace dinosaurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by darrenf 8y ago
* Liverpool Street station. Heading to Liverpool station would be an expensive and time-consuming mistake if you were aiming for Bishopsgate.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Regarding lvh, see also: localho.st
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by darrenf 8y ago
Then this happened 4 pages later: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfs8zxrl0kj8r89/Photo%2018-12-2018...
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by darrenf 8y ago
I browsed through a book, really enjoying the interface - though I hit an issue here: https://bubblin.io/book/the-solar-system-by-marvin-danig/22 The right hand page (leaf?) says "Your browser does not seem t
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by darrenf 8y ago
The article makes no mention of GDPR, and the fine was levied due to (in)action after a breach in 2016. Is this really GDPR related as the title says?
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by darrenf 8y ago
I'm a zone 4-6 dweller of 40+ years and don't recognise this characterisation, I'm afraid. Three years ago Diamond Geezer published a map of all the places in London's boroughs which are more than 1 mile (yes, not km, bu
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by darrenf 8y ago
Yeah, I get the sold out/mainstream/commercial thing but that phrasing has always to me felt like a criticism of the band , when actually I'm resenting the presence of an increased number of fans - about which I should be
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by darrenf 8y ago
> c) people who enjoy Death Metal enjoy the feeling of being in an elite club that's set apart from the faceless conformist masses. I want the bands I love to be popular... but unpopular... but popular. It's aggravatingly par
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by darrenf 8y ago
mole also doesn't seem to support DynamicForward for creating SOCKS proxies. Mind you, I'm not sure how it could improve on native ssh for concision: ssh -D *:1080 work Combined with a .pac file that proxies my work domai
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by darrenf 8y ago
One of the most active Perl 6 contributors made a repeat plea to Larry on the topic of its name just the other day: https://perl6.party/post/A-Request-to-Larry-Wall-to-Create-a...
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by darrenf 8y ago
I assume the GP is referring to Cathay Pacific, for whom Hong Kong is home base; they do not have row 13.
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by darrenf 8y ago
> I guess chat wasn't a glamorous product at Yahoo! so nobody wanted to waste their career on it. Perhaps not glamorous, but it was possibly the most dog-fooded product for all employees – at least IME. Literally every single pers
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by darrenf 8y ago
Is it? I mean, I guess perhaps so - but I find a physical artifact far easier to remember than "must open app X/Y/Z" on all my devices. Like my glasses or wallet or keys or phone, it has a literal presence. In 12 years o
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by darrenf 8y ago
Ages ago, I wanted to use Hailo/MyTaxi to take me to Heathrow – a trip I typically make once or twice a month. They quoted me some crazy amount, like more than double what my local preferred minicab firm or Uber would charge, whereas f
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by darrenf 8y ago
Termius is free and has mosh support: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/termius/id549039908?mt=8 It offers in-app purchases for some subscription feature ( https://www.termius.com/pricing ) but
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by darrenf 9y ago
My recollection is that MySQL got popular because it was the cool and hip and free replacement for mSQL. Certainly I recall migrating from the latter to the former in 97 or so. Postgres at the time had only just started supporting SQL and w
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by darrenf 9y ago
There's almost 9 million people here, y'know.
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by darrenf 9y ago
For my entire career (I'm a lifelong Londoner) I've been bemused by newcomers to the city who essentially refuse to even consider living beyond zone 2. I grew up on the border of Z3/4 and now live in Z6, but have worked eithe
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by darrenf 9y ago
I haven't answered an unknown number in well over a decade. My voicemail message has for at least that long been along the lines of "I probably chose not to answer you, especially if your number is withheld or not known to me. Lea
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by darrenf 9y ago
It's Barbara Demick (a search for Barbara Dendrick does not bring up the correct alternative, at least for me).
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by darrenf 9y ago
FWIW, it was one of the main stories on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning, which means it reached a very large number of people. And it's linked on both the England and Politics index pages, albeit top story on neither.
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by darrenf 9y ago
I think my biggest takeaway from this article is how few names I recognise in it, apart from all the CEOs, despite working for Yahoo! from 1999 to 2011. Mind you, in Europe I rarely felt particularly connected to what was going in in Sunnyv
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by darrenf 9y ago
Definitely not a joke. Well, perhaps that specific instance is, but at Yahoo! many of the most common search terms were domains; one argument had internally for not putting cursor focus in the search bar was precisely because people just us
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by darrenf 9y ago
Yes—Rainbrow, a game you control with your eyebrows: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rainbrow/id1312458558?mt=8

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