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by vram22 4y ago
Yes, those two books are Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls. I have both, and they are good. In one of them there is a section or chapter with a few examples of advanced uses of awk, involving awk's associative arrays, to d
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>Taste is almost definitionally subjective and culturally mediated. Yup. "De gustibus non est disputandum" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputan... But it's fun to dispute about
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>I also have a list of favorite knowledge-base style websites, databases, etc Please consider sharing that list on an awesome-x style GitHub account if it is not confidential. It could be added to by others too.
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Was about to post this. I may have posted it before on HN. IIRC, I first read about it in the K&R C book.
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dang it! how did we all miss that? i rate your comment pg-14
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Didn't you know that zsh has this cool feature which reduces it to 1.5 lines? ohmyzsh!
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by vram22 4y ago
I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment. I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule) https
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by vram22 4y ago
Nice analogy with the tree, branches, etc. Reminds me a bit of that very popular / upvoted / quoted StackOverflow answer by Jim Dennis to a vim newbie question: "Your problem with vim is that you do not grok vi.": http
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Me three, oops, meant two (extra parentheses to type). Not /s, but ;)
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Sure they are common in modern English. (I only speak that version, being modern myself ;) [1] >Is what you're talking about a bit different? Can you dive in a bit? Sure I can. Thanks for asking. Yes, I was talking about something
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Your second paragraph raises an interesting and seemingly valid point, but your first paragraph gets me wrong: I did mean the acronym, i.e. gf or bf (and some other such ones; not all, by a long chalk). Anyway, thanks for giving me the be
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/bin/yes # ;)
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Known, before. See my reply to raverbashing.
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Yes, that's obvious to me too. My point was not whether it was common, but where it came from.
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Father-in-law. Like BIL for Brother-in-law. Apropos, I've always wondered where the terms gf and bf, for girlfriend and boyfriend, came from, i.e. the West, or India. Wonder, because many such short forms come from or are unique to In
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by vram22 4y ago
Please don't insult Greenspun and Common Lisp. http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html?viewfullsite=1#:~:text...
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Used to be "irrelevant in a few months (er,weeks)" for JS, at least a while ago. [ducks to avoid projectiles]
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Similar (in goal). https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/DLang?m=0
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The long flamewar between Linus and Tannenbaum was interesting to read, at least briefly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_d...
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Well said. "The Emperor's New Clothes" parable kind of applies here. Almost no one wants to openly say how ridiculous the situation has become, for fear of being discredited by others with an axe to grind [1], or by those wh
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Also, the original awk book is available on the Internet Archive, IIRC. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarchive.org+the+awk+p...
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I was going to mention Polya's book, but you did first. There is also Dromey's How to Solve it by Computer, which was inspired by Polya's book. I have both, from quite a while ago, and think both are good. https://
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s/Nutika/Nuitka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuitka
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A while back I got to know that there are many kind of factorials, and had written this fun blog post on the topic: Permutation facts: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/10/by-vasudev-ram-nicomachu... (The post URL
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Twitter and sometimes LinkedIn. No tools except hands on keyboard, and clipboard (copy+paste).
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cuppa cha.
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Sort of related, and may be interesting, for the comments in this post about a Python piano app I had done some years ago: Play the piano on your computer with Python: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/04/play-piano
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>That said, I feel that Rust is likely the winner long term. Interesting; why do you think so?
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Also see points 4. and 5. in your first link above.
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You found Larry Wall's Perl book rambling and incoherent? And you a professed book-lover? Are you aware that different book authors have different styles? (Ofc you do.) Or that Perl is a language, a set of creators and authors, and a

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