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by hernan7 17y ago
That's probably the case. Also, all of them being supersets of the Bourne shell doesn't help either.
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by hernan7 17y ago
In my experience, the main advantage of bash is conciseness for certain tasks . I don't have much experience with Python, but I have found the shell (and associated command) less verbose than Perl in certain cases. Obvious things like "fin
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by hernan7 17y ago
Correct -- many of these are also problems in Bourne or Korn shell. I guess by virtue of being the default shell on most Linux distros, "bash" is now seen as a synonym to "Unix shell programming".
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by hernan7 17y ago
I guess many of the complaints are from people trying Lisp on their spare time, especially the cosmetic ones I think (cadadaddr, rplacaca, the parens, etc).
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by hernan7 17y ago
Only when I need to translate something.
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by hernan7 17y ago
Is that an eMachines under the engineer's desk?
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by hernan7 17y ago
Maybe Bluetooth instead of/ in addition to USB?
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by hernan7 17y ago
Good analogy. A computer with not enough RAM would be like Dory from Finding Nemo.
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by hernan7 17y ago
20-year user of vi here... yes, once you get used to vi, going back to an editor for humans is hard.
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by hernan7 17y ago
Do you mean half are below the median? (Actually, if the rockstar programmer stories are true, then it's way more than half of the programmers that will be below average. Which strengthens your point in a way.)
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by hernan7 17y ago
A scripting language that's somewhere between Bourne Shell and Perl: you don't need to spawn a new process to do a grep or sed, and also you use cat and pipes instead of file handles. Maybe when Perl 6 is a bit more mature I will look at im
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by hernan7 17y ago
Same here. My biggest whitebread shock was a couple of weeks after my arrival from Argentina. We went to have a coffe after dinner with a friend, and the Starbucks closed on us at 9:00PM! We ended up drinking our coffees in the parking lot.
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by hernan7 17y ago
Well, there was a period when CD's were the cool new thing and everybody was buying all their record collection on CD again. So, not only the labels were selling music by new artists at their usual pre-Internet levels, but there was also a
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by hernan7 17y ago
Heh, I used to use rsh (or was it rlogin?) for the same purpose back in the day, before rsync came along.
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by hernan7 17y ago
Agreed 100%. Also, for enterprise/vertical app's that usually seem to be released half cooked, releasing them as web apps gives the developers fewer ways to foul up the user experience.
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by hernan7 17y ago
I guess learning a language works different for different people. Me, I took English classes for several years, but what really got me over the hump was reading Guitar Player magazine. Since I like playing the guitar, reading the magazine w
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by hernan7 17y ago
See also: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen "Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers" That was the time when Java was the new thing; when the "network computer" (running a Java VM+ Netscape
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by hernan7 17y ago
See also: http://philip.greenspun.com/business/mobile-phone-as-home-co...
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Universal cellphone charger on its way(edition.cnn.com)
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by hernan7 17y ago
FWIW, I think Eric Raymond has some kind of "last will and testament" page on his website.
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by hernan7 17y ago
I'm one of those programmers returning to study math after all these years. (Mostly so I can write some DSP code for my own amusement.) Currently reading a bit about complex numbers, planning on re-learning some trig next. Statistics is in
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by hernan7 17y ago
According to the hospital, there was no cutting in line: [Jobs] received a transplant because he was "the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available."
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Steve Jobs recovering after liver transplant(edition.cnn.com)
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by hernan7 17y ago
Well, I went to college in the '80s and they did teach us assembly and algorithms. And we had to program in BASIC for one of our labs. And then Pascal for another lab, and another in Prolog, C, functional programming, etc. They surely can t
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What was the most important year ever?(moreintelligentlife.com)
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by hernan7 17y ago
Well, this article is from the mid-90's, so he was less verbose then. Seriously, this is a great article (all you need to know about trans-Atlantic fiber optics and the geeky hombres that lay them down at the bottom of the sea). I remember
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by hernan7 17y ago
Maybe there is room here for some alternative e-book-only business model (that doesn't involve parrots)? Get some unknown authors, outsource the slush reading, concentrate on some niche genres, don't put ads on the NYT. Make sure the books
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Sony Pictures CEO: nothing good ever came from the Internet(current.com)
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Charging for web content: is Murdoch losing it?(guardian.co.uk)
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by hernan7 17y ago
Interesting point (agreed on the pain of programming in Java vs Perl). What do you mean exactly by "fit together"?

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