petdance

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by petdance 1y ago
No matter what you do, at least one person will be unhappy about it.
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by petdance 1y ago
> I have tried to use budget surplus to reward open source projects we use. "We've never heard of that happening, so no."
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by petdance 1y ago
What does "dead" mean?
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by petdance 1y ago
I suggest that there are no meaningful conclusions to be gleaned from the TIOBE rankings.
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by petdance 1y ago
Can you dedicate employee time to help on the projects?
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by petdance 1y ago
> It's too bad Raku didn't have a different name from the start. We thought that it would take a year or two, not decades. Also, the intent was to have a Perl 5 compatibility mode.
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by petdance 4y ago
The reference to "Programming Perl" was no doubt helped along by Perl developer Jesse Sheidlower who worked at the OED in the early 2000s. From his Wikipedia page: "Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower
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by petdance 4y ago
> I use almost none of its more esoteric features Which features do you see as esoteric?
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by petdance 5y ago
What makes ugrep better for your use cases?
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by petdance 5y ago
That still might run afoul of locked down networks like I've seen at banks. Users couldn't install any binaries at all, but with something like ack it's just cut & paste some text into a text file. ack can literally be a
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by petdance 5y ago
Here's another site of mine y'all may be interested in: https://altbox.dev/ It's a collection of improved shell tools, organized by the tool they supplement. As with this feature comparison chart, patches and
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by petdance 5y ago
What do you love about ugrep?
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by petdance 5y ago
"grep | head" doesn't limit the length of output lines, but "grep | cut" would. However, ack and ripgrep's default unpiped output is grouped by file, and if you pipe the output, it doesn't do the grouped o
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by petdance 5y ago
The "print lines by number" was there because earlier versions of ack had a `--line=N` feature, where you could say "ack --line=15-18" and print those four lines. I dropped it because it was hardly any better than using
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by petdance 5y ago
That's how I had it at first. I originally had it as a "phrasebook" of how to do the same thing in the different tools, but it was really ugly and took up a lot of horizontal space, and I figured it was more useful as a chart
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by petdance 5y ago
If there are things you think are confusing or inaccurate, please do make GitHub issues for them. Thanks.
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by petdance 5y ago
Or maybe I just need to move it up in my priority stack.
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by petdance 5y ago
There are a ton of articles out there about it: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ripgrep+%2B+fzf
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by petdance 5y ago
I'm glad you appreciate that you can install ack anywhere. It's exactly for that use case that I have kept ack able to be a single text file download. Also, it only requires Perl 5.10.1, so it's OK if you're using an ol
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by petdance 5y ago
Please note that the chart is a bit out of date. ripgrep has some features that aren't shown on the chart yet. Patches welcome if anyone wants to help. https://github.com/beyondgrep/website
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by petdance 6y ago
> I do not know of a competitor who has put the care into such a tool to even try to measure, though. As an aside, I'm the author of ack, and I would ask that folks not use the word "competitor" to describe different proje
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by petdance 6y ago
It's one of a number of greplike tools out there. Here's a comparison chart: https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ If you're looking for other alternative shell tools, take a look at https:/&
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by petdance 8y ago
Please let me know what's new so that I can update the chart. Dumping into an issue will do, and then I can worry about getting it into chart format. https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/issues
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by petdance 8y ago
exa looks pretty slick, except for having the keys required be on the two weakest fingers of my left hand. :-(
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by petdance 8y ago
Note that rg and ag don't have the same feature sets. Here's a handy chart that shows the differences. https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
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by petdance 8y ago
Various grepalike tools like ack, ag and rg have been mentioned. Most comments seem to be based on which tool runs simple searches faster, but note that their feature sets vary widely. Here's a handy chart that compares the features o
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by petdance 8y ago
Here's a feature comparison chart of the various grepalike tools: https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
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by petdance 8y ago
Sounds like your idea of "culture fit" means excluding married people or people with families. That's likely to run afoul of US EEOC guidelines. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/inquiries_marital_
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by petdance 8y ago
Teaching a love of books and learning to children isn't about disseminating information. There are also many poor folks who don't have the money for the technology you do. The library provides information services to everyone, re
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by petdance 8y ago
I don't know. If I remembered I'd have attributed it. I noted that it wasn't mine as the next-best-thing.

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