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by falsedan 9y ago
I know what expect is (see my grandparent comment). I still don't know what this framework is to be used for: > Start services, and then do something (maybe alert, maybe make a change and try again) if it failed. It's a repla
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by falsedan 9y ago
Then it's weird to reveal that kind of connection on HN, a website about sharing links to sites in order to inform and teach the readers.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I'm familiar with expect, but I don't have any modems anymore which require AT commands to be sent to it with precise timing. It seems like you are describing what it is, not what it should be used for (which is what I can't
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by falsedan 9y ago
This looks like a provisioning framework rather than 'shell automation' (scripting). I couldn't work out out if it supports pipelines. In all honesty, who is this aimed at? Some who know python and doesn't want to switch
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by falsedan 9y ago
> might fail half-way through the file Oh, while transferring! ssh -t user@example.org bash <( echo "function do_it() {"; cat my-setup-script.sh; echo -e "}\ndo_it" ) No argument limits to worry about, no
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by falsedan 9y ago
Pretty sure what the practices you described have 0% basis in law/regulations and 100% ass-covering/terrible customer service.
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by falsedan 9y ago
When is the wedding
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by falsedan 9y ago
afaik he wasn't trading in the US
909.
by falsedan 9y ago
Same as if you bought a bad soda at a bodega, or Advil that had been adulterated: the manufacturer, not the retailer.
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by falsedan 9y ago
It's a weird way of writing ssh -t user@example.com /bin/bash < my-setup-script.sh That is, take the contents of the local file 'my-setup-script.sh' and run them as commands on example.com as the 'use
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by falsedan 9y ago
Why is this on the front page when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519343 has more upvotes?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> The way we travel on roads is very different from rail, which is a slight flaw in the concept of the map You said it, author!
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by falsedan 9y ago
Always be working Melt down at work in a spectacular fashion Engage in a campaign of passive-aggresive attacks on the team causing your anger, explain it as an attempt to use negative feedback to get their working habits to change Never adm
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by falsedan 9y ago
Much like claiming, "all things I find funny are jokes"
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by falsedan 9y ago
> That said, your boss might laugh _you_ out of the room, bringing us back to square one. That's been my experience as well, but I did manage to get that dev 3 months (up from 6 weeks).
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by falsedan 9y ago
As a manager, I would listen to the IC's request, say "I'll see what options are available, let's come back to this next week in out 1-to-1", and then go to my boss to see how much time we can offer/how to impl
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by falsedan 9y ago
'Folk' is fine, though try to work out how to drop 'comrade' into your vocab. In this particular case, the OP could have used 'researchers' and: 1. avoided putting off/distracting people by the use of gend
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by falsedan 9y ago
If your answer is "I don't know but I do know that I don't like it here", then definitely give notice and line up somewhere nice to go and have a think for 6 months or so.
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by falsedan 9y ago
How about plain-old unpaided leave?
920.
by falsedan 9y ago
Re: starting your own company Is there a problem which you see that no one is addressing? Please put aside software problems when considering this, since a start-up solving those sorts of problems is most likely to be acquired by a place l
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by falsedan 9y ago
There's already way too many unfun abstracts, please don't encourage designers to not spackling on a loose theme.
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by falsedan 9y ago
The Campaign for North Africa was never meant to be played straight; consider it a reference for other game designers to study. The consim/wargame split is more nuanced than you described. A game like Combat Commander: Europe attem
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by falsedan 9y ago
I find that having to internalise the rules & quickly explain them to a group really helps improves my teaching skills. Plus, since we're not always going to get everything right, we get to practice polite correction & acknowle
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by falsedan 9y ago
> You prefer to focus on the _method_ of telling a joke (timing and so on) No, I don't. That's something I mentioned that makes a joke good, but you're ignoring what I said makes a joke a joke: the silliness leading to a
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by falsedan 9y ago
> the xkcd comics I find funny are the ones I relate to (the same with any joke). lol good one Wait, are you a chicken? Is the classic galline joke not funny to you because you can't relate to a bird? When you talk about finding t
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by falsedan 9y ago
Also, this is going to look great on their resumé, and be the perfect response to the "tell us a time when you made a mistake" interview question.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> so you have to do simple things to make screwing up hard No one goes out of their way to screw up; I'd recommend making it easier to recognize when you've made a mistake, and recover from it. Except for critical business st
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by falsedan 9y ago
I find that the barrier they present to understanding for people unfamiliar with "geek culture" is elitist and exclusionary. The emotional response they evoke in the viewer is based on, "I know something that other people don
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by falsedan 9y ago
Downvoters: ok I get it: never post anything that's not a glowing recommendation of Python or an attempt to learn more about available modules/distributions.
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by falsedan 9y ago
The quotes are what other people have said. Jokes need to have a punchline and evoke a humour response in the audience; the references to base-1 in the ancestor comments do neither, so describing them as a 'joke' is inaccurate (he

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