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by vram22 4y ago
Some might not know that the K in AWK stands for Kernighan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK And Brian Kernighan has done a lot more than what I've read in this thread so far (though I've not read the fu
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by vram22 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=quote+temporarily+embarrasse...
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by vram22 4y ago
Reminds of that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quote ... /cc @sitzkrieg (sibling comment)
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by vram22 4y ago
>The DBT (DBase III) format was common in the 80s and 90s. That should actually be DBF, the format for the main database tables. DBT was an ancillary format for the memo fields, which were used to store longer pieces of text in one colum
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by vram22 5y ago
The Advaita Vedanta school (non-dualism) is interesting too, IMO.
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by vram22 5y ago
Cut! Cut! ;)
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by vram22 5y ago
Great story thanks for sharing. I am from India, and having heard your story, I may try that in the future. Which specific place did you do this in? Near some town or village in Rajasthan? AFAIK that's the only Indian state that has d
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by vram22 5y ago
HN had the black bar at the top when Dennis Ritchie died, and a thread about it.
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by vram22 5y ago
So you ship every weekday? Nice.
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by vram22 5y ago
Yes, and also honest.
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by vram22 5y ago
Tangentially, I had read somewhere some years ago, that the Dropbox GUI clients on some or all of Linux, Windows and macOS were written in Python and wxPython. The one that you activate from the system tray, in the case of Windows, at leas
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by vram22 5y ago
Yes. And I have read a few pretty interesting novels in English about such business families, from the time I was a kid.
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by vram22 5y ago
>There are some cultures where family businesses, where most members of the family work and participate, are the norm. Quite a huge population of people operate that way. Yes. Among Indian comunities, Gujaratis (particularly the Patel su
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by vram22 5y ago
Partly related: I found Eknath Easwaran's book on meditation interesting. Cannot comment more since I read it many years ago and don't remember details.
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by vram22 5y ago
I have experienced a few earthquakes, big and small. In one of the smaller but not trivial ones, at night, I was sleeping, woke up due to the vibrations, looked out of the window, and saw the ground shaking. Went out of my house to check,
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by vram22 5y ago
I really liked the look of his site, not just the content, which was, of course, good. I first came across it early in my Python career. It had a light green theme or look, IIRC.
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by vram22 5y ago
>I think it's hard, if not impossible, to overestimate how many lives Mr. Lundh's work has touched and improved over the course of his career. RIP. Yes. The same applies about tons of other people who have put their work out on
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by vram22 5y ago
GUI toolkit and DB access library are two things I like to see.
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by vram22 5y ago
>Anyone got a favorite obscure language they could recommend? Icon by Ralph Griswold et al, at U of AZ. Some innovative language features. Pike. Supposed to be fast. Roxen web server written in Pike. ElastiC (not a typo, IIRC). Has check
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by vram22 5y ago
>he got bogged down in learning vi in addition to Unix's other foibles! Check: https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/128967614667035... It's a vi quickstart tutorial that I created. From the st
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by vram22 5y ago
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by vram22 5y ago
Yes, and because the control characters sometimes included the Esc key, this could even take you out of insert mode willy-nilly, and maybe delete / change some of your text, suddenly.
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by vram22 5y ago
I first created this vi quickstart tutorial at the request of two Windows sysadmin friends who were given charge of a few Unix servers. They later told me that it helped them come up to speed with text editing on Unix. https://
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by vram22 5y ago
Back in the day, there was a nice editor I used for a while, called PFE, for Programmer's File Editor. It ran on Windows. It was lightweight and fast, IIRC. Nothing exceptional in terms of features, but one useful feature was that it
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by vram22 5y ago
>Finnish as a language is almost entirely pronouncially composable. So is Sanskrit. It is supposed be one of the most logically-designed languages. >If you know how every single letter is pronounced, you can also pronounce any word. A
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by vram22 5y ago
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec
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by vram22 5y ago
Happy birthday, Vim. I'll just leave this here: https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/124858356689776... It's a plug for my vi quickstart tutorial that I first wrote for two Windows sysadmin frie
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by vram22 5y ago
Ha. Yes. I was just going to write this (in reply to jacquesm's comment above, and also in reply to his parent commenter): "No, it's that Upton Sinclair quote about salary that is the reason", but you beat me to it :) Wh
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by vram22 5y ago
Similar to what Paul Graham wrote about top down and bottom up programming (IIRC, in Lisp), in one of his essays.
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by vram22 5y ago
That last salad recipe seems mouth-watering. Ugh (speaking to myself). I must make salads more often. So fast and easy too.

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