needlepont

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by needlepont 8y ago
Which is a pretty abominable tool TBH. It breaks on just about every little edge and isn't very useful unless you like to see pretty colors and nested outputs + learn it's terrible output formatting spec. When using json I still u
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by needlepont 8y ago
As you note: your example is specious.
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by needlepont 8y ago
That is trusting user input. You don't do that, right?
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by needlepont 8y ago
Of course, but everyone wants to overdo the complexity of the time worn solution. OMG you need to null terminate the string after all the _other_ gymnastics..gee C sure does suck! Why don't we use rust|go|c++ ad-nauseam. bzero(buf,sz
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by needlepont 8y ago
Wasn't referring specifically to you.. but to the gist of the article and the post previous to yours I believe. On the ansi escape sequences to find matches, etc...yes, I get what your tool does but having to tokenize against ansi esca
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by needlepont 8y ago
I've never understood complaints like this. If you are proficient in the unix environment any sort of gymnastics can be handled via generation of some 'object' from plaintext and command generation on the fly. find $PATH -nam
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by needlepont 8y ago
He is pointing to a phenomenon I have witnessed which is copy-pasta and a mediocre understanding of the domain is enough to pass as a programmer these days.
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by needlepont 8y ago
How much of that (Github) code is based on du jour languages and only a casual attempt (if any) to reuse or adapt an existing codebase? I'd say at least 40% but I may be pessimistic.
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by needlepont 8y ago
I would argue that 'abuse' is the most significant characteristic of an open system. What is one persons abuse is absolute freedom to another. The proficient design subsystems to isolate themselves from the 'abuse' and a
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by needlepont 8y ago
Not so much these days with the devops reaction. Now you need to package your work and a good remote worker can figure out what is needed in a few minutes. Not a bad thing for either party TBH. Sysadmins can chase butterflies when they bur
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by needlepont 8y ago
As the first engineer at a successful startup. Responsibilities- * Take over everything technical I was good at and hired for. * Take over policy and progress on everything I was good at. * Be on call 24/7. * Do whatever the CEO/C
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by needlepont 8y ago
"...It was a world that is now extinct. People don’t know that vi was written for a world that doesn’t exist anymore..." And every time I use it I'm reminded that there is this devops/automation movement against interac
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by needlepont 8y ago
I've used TCL in production for 15 years. The only thing to really worry about is a consistent policy on language usage. Keeping to the base features of the language and extensions in tcllib/tclx is a pretty solid recipe. That sa
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by needlepont 8y ago
Interesting. I tried Lua about 6 years ago and found myself unable to see an upside to the language in comparative perspective with python and tcl. This is for full featured *nix systems programming in the HPC world so ymmv.
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by needlepont 8y ago
TCL is a great systems programming language. When I need a glue language for an imperative model program it's my first choice.
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by needlepont 8y ago
Performance _or_ resource conservation. Which one is it? Application design and domain knowledge are more important than rote optimization. I think that is what Ousterhout is getting at.