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by jdp 13y ago
Matt Might wrote a blog post about using standard CLI tools for this purpose: http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/ Rather than making a custom tool to issue SQL, the idea is that regular CLI tools map
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by jdp 13y ago
It already exists: http://defunkt.io/repl/ . Installing it and running `repl git` will put you into a git REPL.
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by jdp 13y ago
I created a very similar project in Python a few weeks ago, based on csvkit[1]. Check out the Gist[2]. [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/csvkit [2]: https://gist.github.com/jdp/8447221
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by jdp 13y ago
This looks pretty cool, I'm a happy Pinboard user but my bookmarks toolbar is still full of stuff I want to check later on but don't want clutter up my Pinboard with. I was able to sign up and install the Chrome extension, but cli
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by jdp 13y ago
Gulp has a lot in common with the venerable make(1) in its approach to building targets, but make is seemingly overlooked in certain circles. It's definitely worth checking out. I wrote something of an introduction to make with the set
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by jdp 13y ago
I like the idea behind this, right now I query against a few disparate data sources (and platforms) and a unified interface would be nice. I use BigQuery[0] a lot and would hope to see it integrated into JackDB in the future, or even make i
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by jdp 13y ago
Also worth checking out is Open, extensible object models [0] which brings prototypal inheritance and message-passing semantics to C. Along with a well-detailed paper is a very digestible example implementation. [0]: http://pium
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by jdp 13y ago
You're right, maybe I've mis-categorized as them major caveats, but they're not so obscure because both myself and others have had to wrestle with these properties in production. I'm not saying use easy_install by any st
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by jdp 13y ago
Hopefully it will also bring about some improvements to pip. It's a pretty great tool but with a couple major caveats. The first is that although it supports many forms of package specification, including VCS repositories, it does not
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by jdp 13y ago
If government has ruled that detainees are no threat, why are they still treated as if they are, shackled even when alone and watching television? It costs $2MM per year per detainee to keep them in Gitmo. Wouldn't it be much more cost
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by jdp 13y ago
Leaving PUT out might be a mistake. The rationale from the slide deck is sound but the framework neglects the case in which you are creating a resource with a known identifier. The POST verb is good for when you don't know the identifi
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Try array programming in your browser: Try APL(tryapl.org)
3 points by jdp 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdp 13y ago
Another cool project is bam[1], a constant key/value server built on similar principles. A single input file (in this case, a TSV file instead of the SPL log file) and an index file. The cool thing about bam is that it uses the CMPH[2]
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by jdp 13y ago
I had the same reaction. I'm pretty put off by the form factor, it's shaped like a slice of Wonderbread.
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by jdp 13y ago
Nice implementation of a concatenative language, and the relatively robust standard library it already has is nice. Is there anything different about its execution model from languages like Factor or Joy? As far as being purpose-built for c
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by jdp 13y ago
"Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law." - May's Law
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by jdp 13y ago
JSON isn't a configuration language, it's just another data encoding format with the added benefit of being readable by humans. That and its ubiquity make it an appealing choice for stuff like ad-hoc configuration at first glance,
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by jdp 13y ago
The older, HTTP/1.X compatible versions maybe. What happens after the web upgrades to 2.0? How long until compatible tools make it to default installs? Even now, OSX doesn't ship with wget.
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by jdp 13y ago
No, but a lot of people are writing them in telnet prompts and through netcat pipes.
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by jdp 13y ago
Reminds me of a beefed-up version of this similar project: https://github.com/chjj/node-tiny
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SelectedPapers.net: Find, Save, and Recommend Academic Papers(selectedpapers.net)
2 points by jdp 13y ago|2 comments
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by jdp 13y ago
It is hard to judge whether or not this is a case of facilitated communication just by that photo, it could just be that the whole family was posed for the photo for the article.
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by jdp 14y ago
Why are you so dismissive of the humanities? I'm a Computer Science major myself, but I can't fathom how you've come to the conclusion that colleges are vocational schools for STEM subjects.
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by jdp 14y ago
Here's one from the Arch mailing list. Also does the ~ expansion for home directories: http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg07...
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by jdp 14y ago
> Have you noticed how Github helpfully shows which words have changed inside a line when looking at diffs? GitHub's web UI only does a line diff. Which is not particularly helpful when you change a word or two in a six sentence paragra
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by jdp 14y ago
The title is One sentence per line , but he clarifies to include clauses in the body of the article. This also has nothing to do with where the margin ends, but editing text in developer formats that is later transformed to end-user format
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by jdp 14y ago
The _links field may not be necessary. There is already an HTTP Link header proposal, and is already being used by API's like GitHub's: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/9707-link-header.html From their examples, this is the equivalent represen
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by jdp 14y ago
Cool idea! Was also pleasantly surprised to find my Python A* gist near the top of the toplist :) https://gist.github.com/1687840
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by jdp 15y ago
Let language tinkerers keep tinkering, the slow convergence toward Lisp is continuing. Hopefully by the time the convergence is complete it will have brought with it the niceties of its successors: a single standard library, a de facto pack
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by jdp 15y ago
Github has also remedied that in their 3rd version of the API. For example, their issues comments collection is exposed through the URI /repos/:user/:repo/issues/comments/:id That could be related to their decision to use only JSON as the i

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