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by petdance 12y ago
https://github.com/petdance/beyondgrep is the repo for the site.
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by petdance 13y ago
I am surprised to see that there is a word in Klingon for vacation: http://klingonska.org/dict/?q=vacation
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by petdance 13y ago
Dear Mr. Stallman, I don't think that's how open source works, but hey, can't hurt to ask.
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by petdance 13y ago
Learn this one weird trick to match a backslash!
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by petdance 13y ago
I'd heard that there were brutal scenes of torture in GTA V, but I had no idea.
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by petdance 13y ago
I'd suggest that for most cases that are not source code that you stick with grep.
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by petdance 13y ago
I put in a redirect from http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone to the new location, but it's temporary. I never intended for anyone to use that command line as ad hoc API, nor did I realize that people were scripting against it. :-/ S
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by petdance 13y ago
Depends on what your needs are. Do you want the coloring and grouping? Do you want Perl regular expressions? Do you want to only search source code? Do you want to be able to specify specific filetypes, like "ack foo --perl" or "ack foo
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by petdance 13y ago
> You don't uninstall grep Beautiful. Thank you. I am stealing that for when I discuss this in other places.
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by petdance 13y ago
Also, take a look at http://beyondgrep.com/more-tools/ . There are a dozen other tools on there as well that you might well like as much as ack and ag. An abundance of tools is good.
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by petdance 13y ago
It's OK to have two similar tools in your toolbox. When you need the --output option, for example, you use ack. When you want crazy speed, you use ag. You don't have to choose one over the other. That's why I changed the name from "bette
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by petdance 13y ago
Excellent. I've added it to the to-do list of articles to put on beyondgrep.com https://github.com/petdance/beyondgrep/issues/12
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by petdance 13y ago
Chances are that if there are any performance changes, it might even be a decrease in speed because of having to find .ackrc files. We haven't gone profiling 2.0 yet, but that's near the top of our list.
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Ack 2.0 has been released(perlbuzz.com)
214 points by petdance 13y ago|44 comments
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by petdance 14y ago
I'm the author of the article, and I chuckled at that myself on my final pass through the article. The difference is that the deal-breaker in the 2nd case is that the "RTFM, dude" response shows the candidate to be 1) rude, and 2) someone w
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by petdance 14y ago
A great list. I've been sending this to people with the disclaimer "half of the rules are about software development in general, so go ahead and read it anyway."
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by petdance 14y ago
I think that makes you sound like a little kid, an amateur. You're an adult, so don't ask other people what you should wear.
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by petdance 14y ago
Please remember that a GitHub account is the start of a portfolio, but only a start. You must have some sort of curated guide that will help the reader through the morass of stuff in your account. Otherwise, you're leaving it up to chance
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by petdance 14y ago
If the original comments about replace were motivated by "Diagnosis and error correction" or "Improvement", I don't see it.
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by petdance 14y ago
> Can we not be critical on the internet any more? You can, but why? What good is served?
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by petdance 14y ago
> I think the point everyone is trying to make here is. Should every person spend 5-10 minutes doing this? Exactly. People tell me "Nobody needs ack, you just write wrappers around find+grep" and I say "You could, but I published it
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by petdance 14y ago
Dictionary.app says mistake is "an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong: coming here was a mistake | she made the mistake of thinking they were important." Perhaps you're thinking of "accident".
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by petdance 14y ago
> There is only one case that justifies reimplementing things Who are you to decide how she may spend her time? Why in the world do you think that she has to justify to you what projects she creates?
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by petdance 14y ago
The problem is that being abusive and belittling to others is harmful to the open source community, especially when it revolves around someone who has gone and contributed to the community actual working code.
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by petdance 14y ago
I'm glad you liked the article, and it seems to have struck a chord. One of the things I've found very handy is that I now have a place to point people on, say, StackOverflow when someone asks "How do I get started in open source?" I start
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by petdance 14y ago
I'm the author of the article, and throwing away the tickets was suggested many times by different people. We had a pretty big discussion in #parrot about the value of this ticket set. People on the project plowed through the Trac database
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by petdance 14y ago
I suggest that one's time isn't so valuable that you can't spend half an hour of unnecessary discussion. (In the case of the OP, I see that we're talking about more time than that.) You never know who you will meet again in your future, or
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by petdance 14y ago
Sad that there's no mention of the huge role Perl + CPAN play in their infrastructure: * http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216392-a... * https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki/DuckDuckGoPerl * http://www.perlmo
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by petdance 14y ago
This is not something to be celebrated. It's an embarrassment and it encourages the same behavior in others.
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by petdance 14y ago
Perhaps someone with a projector that could show entertaining films against the brick walls on either side of us.

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