joepvd

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by joepvd 3y ago
awk is amazing. One pattern I often use is: $ query_something | awk 'generate commands' | sh For larger programs, I wrote and use ngetopt.awk: https://github.com/joepvd/ngetopt.awk . This is a loadable library
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by joepvd 7y ago
I have had fun with zenity[1] (for use bash scripts) and zenity-inspired libraries like dlgs[2] (if golang is your thing). [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/zenity.1.htm... [2]: https:&#x2
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Ask HN: How do you keep flow with long build times?
2 points by joepvd 8y ago|0 comments
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by joepvd 9y ago
To try out a procedure on one dataset amounts to a data point. You need to process a bunch of datasets to establish the performance of the procedure under study. I though ML folks would have the statistical background to know you cannot inf
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by joepvd 9y ago
> Just see who the US president is. Think it is time to update Godwin's Law.
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by joepvd 9y ago
Yeah makes sense Maybe an extra advantage is that you are not tempted to rewrite everything all the time, as I am doing with my attempt of topicaly organized notes. Append-only might really be helpful. Experiment starts now :)
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by joepvd 9y ago
Is there a reason why you made the structure of the notes depend on time? Aren't notes that are about the same topic getting very far apart from each other? I think searching works well when you are as month or maybe three into the pro
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by joepvd 9y ago
There are different targets for notes in VCS and personal notes. In VerySpecificBug759 you do not want to read about how to get the code to build at all. The context of discovery has a lot of (necessary!) detours, cul-de-sacs, and mis-inter
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by joepvd 9y ago
Sounds like you have the possibility to get yourself a new project and have freedom of movement. Given this liberty, you have two choices: 1. Find/create the most awesome project. Don't care about where. 2. Go to the best town, tr
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Ask HN: Most awesome bug reports
2 points by joepvd 9y ago|0 comments
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Documentation Driven Development(gist.github.com)
2 points by joepvd 9y ago|0 comments
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by joepvd 9y ago
Just skimmed through the README, and I stored it in my list of well-documented projects. Well done!
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by joepvd 9y ago
That is an awesome video. Thanks for sharing!
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by joepvd 9y ago
You have a reference for HTTPS problems with skewed client time?
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by joepvd 10y ago
> Blank is talking about acknowledging and dealing with risks early. True that. He also mentioned firing people for not complying with his new rules several times. And also that he did. Those seem like the more substantive acts of his re
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by joepvd 10y ago
Whoah. Would love to see that tag feature ported to envs I have made myself familiar.
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by joepvd 10y ago
It really is a shame that this is a rational solution. University text books should be material to get back to later in life, when confronted with a related problem. Part of university education should be a complete book shelf of well-under
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by joepvd 10y ago
Let's reword your statement: > Because the average employee does not take an active enough role in management decisions. Think on the politics that are closer most people in their day-to-day lives, at the workplace, active engagemen
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by joepvd 10y ago
> beyond what the tool was intended for Not sure what that would mean. I think the tool was designed to be a user's programming language. I liken to think that `awk` was the Excel + VBScript of its days.
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by joepvd 10y ago
Some points: * Cannot have an array as an input to a function * Cannot return an array from a function * Meta-programming or pointers are only (barely) available in gawk * There is an `@include` statement for `gawk` that is not part of POSI
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by joepvd 10y ago
I love awk for text processing purposes. When analyzing log files, I often drop down into awk-mode to check the exceptional constellation that is currently under investigation. Very powerful to be able to say after three minutes: This happe
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by joepvd 10y ago
Resident of Berlin here. Cannot dismiss this statement completely. At the height of the crisis in Spain, there was a noticable influx of Spanish people in a first-move-then-job situation. Most of them did not speak German, quite some also h
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by joepvd 10y ago
The resource that has been instrumental for me to move up from beginner-that-generally-can-work-out-things-with-a-lot-of-random-tries, to someone who often has things right on the first try, and if not, have a clue of what is going on , has
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by joepvd 10y ago
It does not happen that often that one hears: "I don't like the looks of the building when it rains. Replace the facade, pretty please!"
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by joepvd 10y ago
Ha! No, I did not. I will, thanks for posting!
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by joepvd 10y ago
Using Papertrail as well, but I really miss my terminal and awk, grep and less here. Or even regex search. I know I can download the archives, and I do that, but that puts the output of all in one file. Saving different topics in different
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by joepvd 10y ago
> a malicious svg witch You got me interested there ;)
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Oracle fights Russian software policy with Postgres smear(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by joepvd 10y ago|0 comments
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by joepvd 10y ago
To speak with Debord: Punk has been subsumed within spectacular society. Interestingly, Debord seemed to have proposed a life style of Derive, aimless wandering, following one's desires. To me, this resembles the mind set that he tries
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by joepvd 10y ago
Fully agree. Why is it, that SQL generally is so poorly commented? Almost every time I see an SQL script, I cringe for the poor formatting. It's generally not like the writers of these scripts are poor at formatting other code...

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