vaingloriole

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by vaingloriole 7y ago
'customized systems (kernel)..FreeBSD..bare metal': Which is what most of us still do if we care about performance for a single application. Running openmp fortran code for both host/accelerator on oversubscribed vmware or v
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
Do you really think the python popen() workalike with optional shell inclusion is better than running in a shell? More secure perhaps? Easier to read? I forced a developer from my team who would not stop using subprocess calls (including $S
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
For what? Is it faster than (g)awk? How about sed? How about dd? How about any of the thousands of tools in userspace that you wrap in bash and are faster than python at the same task? Use the right tool is being lost in the 'you are t
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
Would never use python in lieu of curl/jq for json handling unless I am writing something more complicated than a shell script. catch 22.
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
Balderdash and hokum. z=1 ; while test ${z} -lt 4 ; do a=${RANDOM:1:3} ; dd if=/dev/urandom count=12 bs=4 of=${a} && b=$(cat ${a}) && echo ${b:$(expr 1 + ${RANDOM} % 4):12} ; ((z++)); done You have one tool that
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
This is the kind of ignorance (just use python for anything it's better + and discover subprocess(): it's great) that burns me up. Not so many years ago actively insisting that python/tcl/perl were to be used instead of
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
If you don't care about dealing with the headaches of enterprise/corporate and know what you are getting into then sure. Not for me. I've tried multiple times after 15 years in various startups (and .edu). The kultur of a lar
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
Authority is the problem...not standardization and portability. Everyone is willing and able to tell you the best way to do your work if you use their tools. Straitjacketing implementation in the name of order is a surefire way to dissuade
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
I disagree with you wholeheartedly and without condition. Not only are you discounting how much time it takes to learn how to program effectively in a real 'glue' language you are high handed in ignoring the ubiquity, working arch
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by vaingloriole 7y ago
man getrusage