yeowMeng

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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Shells and /_/nix philosophy are a 4th generation query and data munging language with seamless extensibility. Emacs is an perhaps the most ambitious implementation of a layer above shells and /_/nix philosophy. The prob
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Ask HN: How do you decide, link or comments
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
But metaphorically, do you want the ink of news running through your blood... Maybe!
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Similar: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/55960/im-not-the...
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I am no expert, but I always thought you could scrape without consequence provided you never distribute your scrapings?
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I used to run Star Craft II on a a GNU/Linux laptop using WINE. The box would get hot AF, but it ran. I always thought WINE was impressive.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Alternatively: "How to build a low cost Linux cluster simulator using Pi's" :)
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Canada, 10am-6pm, 1 hour lunch (30 mins paid).
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
And sometimes you find out data file Z is itself a Perl script :)
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
My experience with Perl: We (a corporate shop) have a lot 'legacy' scripts in Perl. I am assigned to maintain such scripts as no one else wants that role. I discover, Perl is powerful. Every 'legacy' script I find can be
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
> Scalability is achieved by distributing the documents across machines. Unless everyone wants to edit the same doc at the same time.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I believe it is a reference to increased control over available gdb buffers (ex: register's value, disassembly, source). Ability to use macro's while debugging. And probably more key bindings.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Read at least two style guides for the lang of choice. Adopt the good ideas. Personally, I like the style guides published by Google.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I am not a pen tester, but I love paper cheat sheets on my desk. Currently: gdb, emacs, bash, operator precedance in C, register names/use in x86.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Especially Fortran in a unix MPI cluster.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
The difference is when I update on iOS 9.something things will work. When I update windows, I have to buy a new printer or, the headphone jack no longer works...
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
> Most jobs are just 'stuck in a loop' ones. Where you inherit legacy stuff and you're not allowed to change anything. You are not allowed to change anything and commit it :) But it's amazing how much cruft you can di
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
ie, datasets that are maintained and properly encrypted in a 'CEUE' (Create Encrypt, Update, Encrypt) app.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
This is true. But Aboriginal's did execute controlled burns for reasons XYZ. One reason for controlled burns was to create a funnel in a thick new growth area in order to funnel the herding animals for hunting purposes. These controlle
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Interesting fact: Aboriginal people living in North America before first contact with Europeans used to perform periodic controlled blazes on the land. Motivations including making the land easier for hunting and preventing uncontrollable f
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I stopped using these types of tools a while ago because I always disliked the bright flash that was created when the page was initially loading but before the plugin was executed. I would always try to take a long blink when I clicked a li
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Or alternatively, a digital impulse chemical continuum computer. Features include: * No stack * Mostly type safe * Process complex thoughts known as emotions Bugs: * ships without a C compiler * Consumes too much coffee * Version upgrades c
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Wget/sh/sed/awk/perl soup
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Anyone else like Bob Dylan... If people cheat, I believe there is a slow train comming. Example: I had a friend who had an interview for company XYZ, "Write a program that clicks the first link in a wikipedia entry and exits when you r
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Unrelated but: It's easy to believe that yr peers are cheating. But I believe there are a lot of hard working people that know the concequence of cheating your way through.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Fair enough - bash has a lot of tough features to learn. IMO, bash sticks around because a lot of people still find it useful. Example: I have 2 mins to check if a duplicate line has occured in a log file with some arbitrary logging format.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
Disclaimer: I have only used vim and emacs, so I really don't know what an IDE can do. Things I wish I knew about emacs earlier in life: Emacs benifit plan volume 1: * You will finally love the ui/ux for `info` pages * macros (sav
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
man pages could use a new section that literally contains @euske comment. The new section should be called: 'Gotcha'.
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by yeowMeng 10y ago
I really enjoy this type of stuff, but always wonder why hateful words sometimes get melted in. Edit: changed to existential claim.
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by yeowMeng 11y ago
Can you please GNU me yr 186 lines of bytes. I am curious.

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