hackerpants

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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   I've answered 1) and 3) below. Thanks for the link in 5)! That's really useful. I really like the two visualizations you've made -- I'll definitely look into incorporating some of those ideas when I have time.
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   Yeah! This is something that I'm interested in, but there are a bunch of privacy issues with a raw data dump (references to specific files/URLs and possibly passwords), and I haven't gotten around to making sure it's saf
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   I've spent quite some time looking at those histograms, but I haven't found a good way to display it usefully yet. The most popular commands are 'git', 'ls', and 'cd', and the table of most used comma
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   Someone pointed out to me the 'ls' typo constellation =D http://jvns.ca/projects/unix-command-survey/graph.html?cente...
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   good question! The issue is that everyone uses git, so it's not correlated with any other commands.
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   Results of May's HN unix command survey (spoiler: lots of Rails)(jvns.ca)

   23 points by hackerpants 13y ago|12 comments
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   do you know about the organization Software Carpentry? http://software-carpentry.org/ They work on teaching scientists to be better at software, and are always looking for people to do workshops
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   Thanks very much! As of 2:14pm, it's using your new version for greater pipe accuracy =)
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   by hackerpants 13y ago

   Yup, this oversight is officially embarrassing.
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    by hackerpants 13y ago

    Excellent point. I'm definitely going to put that caveat at the beginning of any analysis I post. (and thanks to ctrl_freak for posting an alternative!)
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    by hackerpants 13y ago

    Yes! I don't want to know anybody's secrets. I won't be publishing the raw data for this reason, in case anything like this gets through by accident.
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    by hackerpants 13y ago

    Huh, I didn't know that. What command gives the entire history on OS X, then?
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    by hackerpants 13y ago

    You can leave your email address in the form if you want to get an update when I post them. I'll also post the results to HN, of course :)
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    by hackerpants 13y ago

    Excellent idea! I am investigating how to best do that.
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    Your top 100 unix commands, for science(docs.google.com)

    156 points by hackerpants 13y ago|79 comments