zippitydoodah68

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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
..and this is the problem. The assertions of escape. I don't understand it. I would write prose the same way Jack Vance (did) and Gene Wolfe (does) if I could write. There can be one true way for the expression of logical thought. We c
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
That's why you need an ADT for strings. I've seen this problem (and experienced) this problem multiple times. Any char array needs explicit termination based on use.
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
This shows the state of domain knowledge in the industry. This is why people like me still exist because despite the huge progress in programming sophistication basic concepts escape everyone.
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
In general you seem like an absurd sort of creature. Neither here nor there. Bragging about your facility and business velocity. Everything you claim to do sysadmins were doing in 98 and with equal velocity and adequate coverage. There were
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Good for them.
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Well, having an indoor cat means keeping an indoor cat happy which is a larger problem (for the caretaker) but indicative of the meta supremacy in house cat behavior. In all seriousness I would rather take the time to care for a house cat t
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
I think you can figure this out. Not about design, about determining demand/profit, data collection, and control.
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
It's not that sysadmins cannot do the work you are rightfully proud of. If there are two basic things that differentiates your statements from those of a traditional sysadmin it is these. 1. Design. 2. Discipline. Where these two value
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Let's see. 1. They get my browser transmitted information as corollary to my browsing habits which they then resell, pester me with, and analyze in order to create a dialectic which is flawed, impersonal and does not necessarily profit
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Actually the parasite infestation (fleas), lack of affection and food when they want it (except through hard work), temperature variations, etc...make the barn cat a misanthrope. Every house cat owner knows that the house cat is the '
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
You have deep technical ladders and they may make sense in a place like Google. Who knows. I've seen a couple young men I've mentored go to work at Google and don't hear anything negative from them. Any code anywhere is worth
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
And you are definitely not a sysad or any sort of sysadmin. The core mission of a sysad is to build the best environment possible while restricting that environment. You seem to be the sort of developer that developers love and the sort of
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Been working since 86 in this industry. You lose and gain and you should always be mindful of what is coming. Humility is good. I love you young guys, your ideas keep coming and they are mostly good.
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
I have shell libraries that generate code via here documents and other templating that are > 500 lines. That is about as far as I reasonably go. Note that these are function (and scope specific variables (with hopefully unique namespaces
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Once bitten, always shy, eh? Not saying you are overreacting because I remember the bug and it was bad news. I use C pretty much exclusively (and have for 20 years) but I would rather see new development for handling user input and frequent
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
'It depends..' is a quagmire for the unwary. My route is to make a good rule about writing python with more than 'n' os. , subprocess. and *.Popen calls automatically requiring shell script counterparts in case we find
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
These types of pipelines are why bash and the traditional tools are so maligned. Expert knowledge of sed|(g)awk|bash tools is necessary otherwise you end up with companies telling you that you can't use them. some_command | gawk &#x27
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Perfectly convenient, safe and fast. Pick any two. https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html I've told developers that if I catch them writing shell scripts in python they must commit a shell script d
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by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
That is mind blowing for me in a couple ways. * You have (at least) seven tiered support structures. * You have only one 'competent' shell programmer in your 'reachable' project scope. No wonder these types of language