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by petdance 14y ago
That says more about Linus that anything else I've read.
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by petdance 14y ago
The problem with that is that far too few geeks are interested in winning friends or influencing people. Still, the Carnegie book is great.
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by petdance 14y ago
Where did you see ack as "far, far better than grep". My Ctrl+F finds nada. The reason I took "betterthangrep.com" as a domain name, besides it being catchy, is that I want people to think beyond stock grep as a tool, to know that they hav
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by petdance 14y ago
That kind of mentality is exactly why it's wrong to have "svn blame" and "git blame" as commands. The very commands that we use to look at code history teach us that it's all about finger-pointing.
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by petdance 14y ago
It's not for the human readers to skip the section so much as to simply acknowledge that you're doing it for the machines. If I'm a human and I'm reading a skills section that includes PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL, SQL and RDBMS, I might think "Aw,
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by petdance 14y ago
The idea of listing categories is fine, but don't rely on those descriptions to give enough detail. What you think might be "good" knowledge of X might be strictly amateur to someone else. Better to tell stories and give descriptions of h
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Before you write a patch, write an email(petdance.com)
1 points by petdance 14y ago|0 comments
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by petdance 14y ago
Depends on if you include time to type the command. If your find command looks like find . -name '*.pl' -o -name '*.pm' | xargs grep foo and it takes 1 second to finish, and your ack command is ack foo --perl and it takes
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by petdance 14y ago
Not only that, but that guy also linked back to the original and said it was a modification of the previous post.
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by petdance 14y ago
Nobody said anything against really short names.
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by petdance 14y ago
I'm more than happy to include findrepo on the betterthengrep.com/more-tools page. If you'll make a page for it, or at least have something for newbies to read, I'll add a link. My concern is that someone who's new to all of this isn't goi
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by petdance 14y ago
It's a joke but not. The less typing you have to do, the better. Less typing means fewer mistakes and less time waiting for the search to start. Defaults matter. ack is all about having sensible defaults for your most common uses.
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by petdance 14y ago
Oooh, I forgot about your project when I did the betterthangrep.com website overhaul. I just added it to http://betterthangrep.com/more-tools/
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by petdance 14y ago
Hey, if you've got a solution for it, I'd love to hear.
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by petdance 15y ago
But a trend of what? I don't see how anyone can conclude "X is used more (for whatever 'more' means) than Y" simply because there are more documents on the web about X than Y.
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by petdance 15y ago
But why bother to improve it? Why is the question of "What programming language is most popular" one that needs an answer?
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by petdance 15y ago
The title of the article is wrong. A correct title would be "The number of documents on the web about C is now larger than the number of documents on the web about Java." There is no reason to believe, and no facts are given to support the
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by petdance 15y ago
Same harm as any other spewing of unlikely but plausible stories. Same harm as repeating the story about not flashing your brights at another car lest they come kill you. Just wasted time and overly dramatic. Same harm in telling about how
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by petdance 15y ago
Corrections & police undergo more severe scrutiny, and therefore are not relevant data points. This is in the original article, and was not "made up". The mute/moot mistake was made by a poster, not the author.
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by petdance 15y ago
I tried going down the road of finding specifics that could be verified. Here's one claim: "There are several companies that are now revising their HR policies so that providing your FB password on a steady basis is a requirement of your c
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by petdance 15y ago
> the inane-stream media whipping up a phony crisis. But it's our own fault. There was one little AP story, and it got pushed everywhere, and what did we do? We clicked the link, and then we said "OMG LOOK AT THIS I HAVE TO POST THIS
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by petdance 15y ago
I think the worst slop is that when faced with lack of hard data, the writers fall back on "more". "More companies are asking job applicants for their social media passwords." More than what?
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by petdance 15y ago
The problem with that approach is that its combative, which does you no good. That's why I suggest the following, from the article: > The best answer is to calmly and respectfully say “I believe it’s best for business to keep business
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by petdance 15y ago
> I do have one question, why does the author use BOLD text in the article in such a haphazard manner? You could post a comment on the blog and ask. I'd have answered. I bold the text for the key points that I want people to take away.
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by petdance 15y ago
I've never heard of these "brogrammers". Perhaps I'm not reading the right blogs so as to be whipped into a proper frenzy.
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The nameless "they" and the Facebook / job interview trend that isn't a trend(petdance.com)
109 points by petdance 15y ago|42 comments
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by petdance 15y ago
Rejecting code and docs is a fine strategy for the short term. In the long term, people and enthusiasm are the scarce resources. Taking the time to cultivate them as members of the community pays off down the road. I don't agree with your
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by petdance 15y ago
There were about 30 items I left out for the sake of article length. I'm going to be expanding all of them into a website that will have a page for each of them.
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How to contribute to open source without being a programming rock star(softwarequalityconnection.com)
36 points by petdance 15y ago|7 comments
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by petdance 15y ago
When my dad bought a DEC Rainbow 100, I loved loved loved that I could move the keyboard. Such a boon!

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