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Moving a Git branch to a new base(nedbatchelder.com)
5 points by zoidb 5y ago|0 comments
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by zoidb 5y ago
A hobby project from about 5 years ago https://cmdchallenge.com . There is zero monetization and the only reason I keep it running is that it has been pretty low maintenance and doesnt cost anything to run (one small $5 vm). The
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A nice story about Unix processes “infecting” each other(rachelbythebay.com)
164 points by zoidb 5y ago|42 comments
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Ethics in Programming(adambourg.com)
2 points by zoidb 5y ago|0 comments
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Asimov, Programming and the Meta Ladder(eli.thegreenplace.net)
52 points by zoidb 5y ago|6 comments
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by zoidb 5y ago
Same on firefox
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by zoidb 5y ago
I suppose this means the neutral response https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ will no longer be a thing :(
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by zoidb 5y ago
I was looking into doing something similar with Nomad recently since lately I have been using systemd to launch containers and managing that config with some janky shell scripts. How are you configuring everything to run on a single server,
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s/bash/zsh/g(arp242.net)
191 points by zoidb 5y ago|237 comments
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by zoidb 5y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree with you here especially after a take a break from writing Nim I need to re-learn a lot because it is impossible to hold it in my head for very long.
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by zoidb 5y ago
I have written a bit of both, recently re-wrote a command runner for a side-project https://gitlab.com/jarv/cmdchallenge in Nim and found it very pleasant and much less verbose, which was a nice change from GoLang whil
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From Serverless to Server(jarv.org)
2 points by zoidb 5y ago|0 comments
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by zoidb 5y ago
Or you could imagine this response delivered in a semi joking way that would be picked up as an adult but taken more seriously as a kid.
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by zoidb 6y ago
yeah i saw a lot of those errors :( it calls a lexical parser on the input which doesn't like it.
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by zoidb 6y ago
> Also, small nit, "find ./place-for-pipers -type f -name "piper" | xargs grep -i 'piping'" wasn't accepted due to the filenames being prefixed to the output. I feel like this is one of the benefit
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by zoidb 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! > One recommendation: Add a "What?" accordion entry that just states in plain speech what exactly you want done, without giving away the how. For a few of these I read the prompt and was like "uh..
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by zoidb 6y ago
good point, I will add a hint to #8
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by zoidb 6y ago
thanks! glad you enjoyed it. I had some downtime last weekend so thought I would create a Christmas edition of an old project https://cmdchallenge.com . It's a little bit more gentle of an introduction to shell than the main
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Show HN: Twelve Days of Shell(12days.cmdchallenge.com)
82 points by zoidb 6y ago|23 comments
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by zoidb 6y ago
Looks really nice and congrats on the launch! I would probably add a social login or some barrier for anonymous submissions since it will probably collect spam submissions. I noticed you have to approve every submission but it probably won&
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by zoidb 7y ago
Misleading headline: > "One theory was that the queen was trapped in my car and the swarm were following,” Carol said. > "But they couldn't find the queen anywhere so I've no idea if that was right.
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by zoidb 7y ago
You can see how GitLab handles repository backups on the following page https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure...
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by zoidb 8y ago
I recently tried to cancel my mcfit gym membership in Germany which was much more difficult than signing up. In this case you actually had to mail them a letter by post to cancel, where signing up was done on-site in 10minutes. Maybe you ar
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by zoidb 8y ago
There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https:/&#
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Introduction to concurrent network servers(eli.thegreenplace.net)
1 points by zoidb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zoidb 9y ago
"Since code is being executed on my server, I want to be extra careful." If you mean security I think your concern isn't necessary, if nothing else you will have less people using your site so whatever issues you do have wil
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All of the code for CMD Challenge is now public under the MIT license(about.cmdchallenge.com)
2 points by zoidb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zoidb 9y ago
"electrical engineers seem to be in the biz basically only to make lights turn on or blink." or for writing about the build process :)
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by zoidb 9y ago
You should let people see what other people submitted although it's pretty easy by fiddling with the URL. I like seeing the word patterns but I really wonder how well it can detect true sentiment, not an easy thing to do. https:/
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by zoidb 9y ago
You should check out http://terminal.jcubic.pl/ , it has a lot of nice terminal-like features and wouldn't be hard to drop in as a replacement if you were looking for something that feels a little more realistic. I use

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