nrclark

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by nrclark 8y ago
+1 for a great book, I bought that book too! I use the patterns in @jgrahamc's article "Escaping: A Walk on the Wild Side" pretty often. Especially the \n definition, which works great to put on the end of a $(foreach) loop i
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by nrclark 8y ago
For me, I mostly work in embedded Linux - that's Linux for routers, custom hardware, sometimes a Docker image, etc. That means lots of packaging work. Sometimes it means build machines that can't even run the compiled binary. I co
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by nrclark 8y ago
GNU Make is an awesome task-runner. I use it all the time, for all sorts of things. It's my shell-script replacement, and I write one-off Makefiles frequently. It's got a nice macro-processor, some helpful string manipulation tool
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by nrclark 8y ago
beans in space make the lightest roasts
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by nrclark 8y ago
looked for the "Buy Roastcoins" button but couldn't find it
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by nrclark 8y ago
which System76 laptop? I've been toying with the idea of getting an Oryx during the next round of upgrades at work.
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by nrclark 8y ago
It's not the same thing, unless the company is holding interviews for a nonexistent job. Or if they're interviewing somebody that they know they won't hire anyways. I don't think anybody would defend that practice, so wh
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by nrclark 8y ago
I'm not sure if I'm morally OK with advising people to interview 3 times a year. It might be good advice for the interviewee, but it wastes a lot of the interviewer's time (and potentially money). If I was interviewing a cand
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by nrclark 8y ago
Totally agree in principle. One interesting note - MacOS doesn't have a /usr/bin/python2 (at least, not at the time of this writing). It supplies /usr/bin/python, and also /usr/bin/python2.7
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by nrclark 8y ago
+1 for a great tool.
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by nrclark 8y ago
Ah, Elsie's. So many memories.
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by nrclark 8y ago
Just a quick note on this - byobu isn't a tmux alternative exactly. It actually uses tmux (or screen) on the back-end. So it's more like a nicely configured tmux.conf/.screenrc with standardized bindings.
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by nrclark 8y ago
I've been a daily nicotine gum user for years, and I'd say I'm addicted. I've tried to quit several times. I'll kick it for a couple of months, and then I'll have a stressful week and I'll buy a box. Then
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by nrclark 8y ago
C's variable-length arrays are one example. They were introduced in C99, and downgraded to 'optional' in C11. So that's one place where a newer C compiler could refuse old C code and still be language compliant. Also the
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by nrclark 8y ago
Out of curiosity, would you consider constexpr to be bloat? I feel like it has tons of applications, especially for embedded C programmers. One example that comes to mind: CRC calculation. Most microcontroller CRC libraries are lookup-based
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by nrclark 8y ago
Request for C++14-style constexprs. It would be a great way to spice things up, and I think would be very compatible with the C philosophy. C is a great language, and I love working with it. But constexpr is something I really feel would im
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by nrclark 8y ago
Same. I learned TCL back when I was a full-time FPGA engineer (it's the standard scripting language for most FPGA toolchains for whatever reason), and I actually really liked it. TCL is a weird little language, and has a lot of beauty
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by nrclark 8y ago
note on this - Tkinter does come with a TCL interpreter for sure. But not all Pythons come with Tkinter (source: I've packaged Python for embedded systems)
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by nrclark 8y ago
Surprised to see Guile weighing in at 2mb - my experience with it on Linux was a much larger install. What makes the Linux packages so much larger out of curiosity? I profiled it at more like 50-80mb when I compiled it a couple of months ag
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by nrclark 8y ago
GNU Make's got tons of features that aren't in POSIX Make (so does BSD Make). I use GNU-specific Makefile features all the time - here's a list of some of the cool features: - Built-in functions (see https://w
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by nrclark 8y ago
Agreed - conversational violence and physical violence are two very different things. If I heard somebody say 'violence', I definitely wouldn't jump to conversational violence in my head. But as far as descriptive nouns go, i
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by nrclark 8y ago
I haven't read much about NVC, so I can't speak to how the term is used there. But if it's anything like Crucial Conversations, they define/analyze conversational violence in a lot of detail. I thought it was a really in
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by nrclark 8y ago
"The man who doged the Dogecoin"
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by nrclark 8y ago
It's neat how similar this looks to a Bitbake recipe (used by the Yocto Linux project), except that those are written in a DSL that's half Python and half shell-script. Check out a similar recipe here https://github.com
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by nrclark 8y ago
Around the 30 minute-mark, I noticed some weird syntax that I've never seen before. I dabble in C++ at my job, so I'm not a total newbie. But what do those braces mean on 'weekday'? Is that some kind of class constructor
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by nrclark 8y ago
I love Jenkins, and use it professionally. With that said, I'd really like to see better documentation on the Jenkinsfile Pipeline format. I've tried to get started with it a few times, and haven't had tons of success. Stuff
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by nrclark 8y ago
A decentralized solution still needs to be hosted by _somebody_. Where is it expected to live? On the PCs of Rohingya refugees?
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by nrclark 8y ago
Not a question of preference, and not a troll - I'm actually curious about how/if it could work in practice.
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Don't blockchains need miners to validate every transaction? Who exactly is going to be running all these computers, and why? What happens when the internet goes down?
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by nrclark 8y ago
You might find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton#United_States

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