pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   Thanks for your reply! Since I do a lot of devops I've tried over the years to formulate a mental model of how a sysadmin thinks and what they care about. I'd never have thought about this auditability concern, so it's someth
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   `v` was the missing key for me. Looks like it even preserves my position in the file. Thanks!
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   > Besides — vim really shouldn't be used on log files. It's editor, not viewer. I think the two concerns I stated are probably legit, but this one is boring to me. Vim is nicer than less for reading files. I have more navigatio
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   Another less-vs-vi question: As a junior programmer I got chewed out by my IT department because I was examining a (production) log file in vi. The sysadmin told me I should use less (actually more---this was on Solaris in ~2001). To this d
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   Just the other day I was looking for a way to do this in less: yank 10 lines, open a new file, paste the 10 lines, save the file. Is that possible? My Googling last week didn't find a good solution.
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   Thanks to you and @mandelbrot for the suggestions!
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   One 20th century composer I've enjoyed is Górecki, especially his Third Symphony. It is "monotonous" but still interesting and powerful. I don't really know a lot about music, but I love Dvořák and Brahms and Beethoven&#
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   You can repoint nslookup with the `server` command which I often do when checking/debugging. I'd have to look up how to do the same with dig.
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   > Does no one at Cloudflare use dig? Looks like all the comments critical of Cloudflare's decision have been downvoted! I use ANY with dig (actually usually with nslookup because of my age) when I set up DNS entries and want to chec
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    In my opinion you should usually not code for DRY when the repetition is "accidental," only when it expresses a principle from your domain (your "business logic"). Sharing "ip" between "iphone" and &q
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Oh that's great! It looks like the HTML version of his link doesn't have any subsections under section 4: http://rfc7159.net/rfc7159 but the plaintext version does: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc&#x
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I'm surprised to see nothing about formatting dates, which in my experience is the worst interop issue with JSON. I'm glad people are working on this though---thank you!
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    A related question: How do you access academic papers? I've got a list of papers I'd like to read on the Church-Turing Thesis and Quantum Computing, but I'm just a working freelance programmer with no access to a research l
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey might be great things to try. You can run both on an emulator. I'm pretty sure you can play Rocky's Boots pre-reading. In fact I would not be sad if v1 of Starfighter was playing Robot Odyssey
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Patrick, best of luck to you. With the success of Appointment Reminder (and consulting, and BCC . . .) I was very surprised to see you launching into something new. But your most recent "annual report" (which felt much more person
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I especially like your point there that this will highlight people who don't have a spectacular Github profile. Lots of people complain that they have a great track record writing proprietary code and the recent focus on Github profile
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I was worried about this too, but when I think about how many times I've shared my Github profile/projects and not had people look at it, I doubt it's a real concern. At most people will look at your score, not at the details
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Command-line ssh & scp would be awesome. Also something like wget/curl. In general for TCP/IP there is still just almost nothing.
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I am not a data viz designer, but I've read VDoQI and I enjoy following the field as a lay person. I build a lot of charts but I don't design them. A lot of my clients have philistine data viz taste--and many of their graphic desi
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I was glad to see discussion of a technical track. I just finished reading Skunk Works, and that is a great example of what you can do with a team of outstanding technical contributors. Also one of the messages of that book is that such a t
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Wow, that is amazing. There is also the very old saint's life Barlaam and Josaphat that is basically a Christianized Buddha story. I think we underestimate how much contact there was between East and West long ago. I recall hearing a
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Not just your infrastructure, your code base too. I've seen a lot of developers practice what I call "debugging by superstition," where they make random changes until it appears to work. I prefer to keep digging until I under
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    > galaxies that are far enough away from us (more than a few tens of billions of light-years) will always recede from us faster than the speed of light Wait, how is that possible??
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    It sounds like Capistrano's `deploy_via` option is what you're looking for: http://bu.chsta.be/blog/2013-02-24/capistrano-deployment-str...
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Thank you for your response! I agree that unlike a warp drive we can at least say that intelligence exists. But I think that is begging the question. For as long as we have records, people have experienced the mind as something sui generis
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I'm glad someone is challenging this incredibly glib argument in support of taking away freedoms and smothering innovation under regulation, because of poorly-defined fears that experts mostly discount. Sam's proposal for regulati
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    It seems like almost every project I work on could benefit from a general-purpose library for storing JSON documents along with a change history, including the change timestamp and author. Also the ability to merge two divergent branches an
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    The middle voice. You know active voice and passive voice. Ancient Greek has a middle voice, where the subject does the action in a way that affects or benefits themselves. (The exact meaning can vary for each verb.) In my opinion, this is
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Wow, that is super interesting! I think they buried the lede though. (Edit: not complaining! I like tech taught via a discovery narrative like they use here.) Given this: def a(&block) yield end def b yield
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I can relate to this. I researched a bunch of Ruby gems for "feature flags" a while back and didn't find any that worked for our needs, so I wrote the code myself, and it was super easy. On the other hand I'll choose Dev