Raesan

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by Raesan 10mo ago
What I thought was most interesting was the statement at the very end: "The poetic nature of writing in grievance in Arabic is much more effective than in English." Differences between languages are so interesting to me. Anyone he
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by Raesan 5y ago
Pretty much all APIs at Amazon , internal and external, are either defined using this or its precursor and then per-language clients and server stub implementations are autogenerated based on the model. That’s true of boto3. Not sure how mu
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by Raesan 6y ago
It is! I’ve been watching a bunch of Asian TV shows lately and I’ve seen that phrase crop up in both Thai and Taiwanese shows. I had the same question so I asked a friend who’s Thai about it. She said it’s equivalent to “I should get going”
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by Raesan 10y ago
Whenever I see posts about hiring, the comments here tend to land at the "this is bad advice" end of the spectrum. Does anyone have any resources that give good advice? Or is hiring such an unsolved problem that we don't even
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by Raesan 11y ago
Yeah, PS remoting is basically a no-go before server 2012, and even then it's just barely functional enough to be occasionally useful. They're planning on adding SSH support though, so I'm cautiously optimistic. I don't
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by Raesan 11y ago
I see your point, but I think it's increasingly rare to find sysadmins who haven't been exposed to OOP. A little programming has become less and less optional to be successful at the job. At my job, I'm pretty sure even the e
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by Raesan 11y ago
When powershell comes up, someone always gripes about how they can't do this or that like they can in bash. I'm not going to deny that grep is nicer to use that the powershell equivalent (Select-String). But you don't configu
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by Raesan 11y ago
PowerShell has "providers" that let you interact with things as if they were a file system, which is what is going on in your example. I agree that it's not a great way to expose IIS settings. The other place you see provider
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by Raesan 11y ago
Yeah, that really bothered me coming from bash. I agree it's not as good from a discoverability perspective. Having said that, it's not the kind of thing that has continued to bother me over time. I've gotten used to it.
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In defense of PowerShell(benwilson.me)
56 points by Raesan 11y ago|78 comments
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by Raesan 12y ago
You could also use either of these: (Select-String "pattern" -Path file.txt).Line > t.txt Select-String "Pattern" -Path file.txt | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Line > t.txt Or equivalent to the second exa
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LibreOffice developers demo collaborative editing prototype(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Raesan 14y ago|0 comments
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by Raesan 15y ago
I OCRd it using Acrobat: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/980684/Jobs.pdf Probably not perfect, but better than nothing.
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by Raesan 15y ago
I took a few CS classes at the University of Washington in the 08–09 academic year. The intro CS classes had recently been redesigned [1] to be more effective. Anecdotally: I talked four of my friends into taking one or both of the intro cl
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by Raesan 15y ago
I live in Capitol Hill (right in the middle of Seattle), and Comcast is the only ISP in my area that offers a connection faster than 5mbps. It's a legitimate problem.
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by Raesan 15y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by Raesan 16y ago
I did something similar with Google Voice. I created a new voicemail greeting of the tone and calls from the apartment's callbox are sent straight to voicemail with that greeting. You have to hold your phone next to the speakers on my compu