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by sglane 9y ago
Thanks, just learned something new. grep predates GNU by about a decade it seems.
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by sglane 9y ago
There are three types of regex as far as I know: basic (aka GNU), extended and PERL. Grep uses GNU as the name implies. egrep or grep -E uses extended. PERL is used elsewhere like JavaScript. Typically you'll see pcre which is the
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by sglane 9y ago
It's not that simple. A corollary is with cellphone firmware for the radio. They have to answer to the FCC. Updating the firmware will let you broadcast with more wattage, for example. FCC doesn't like that. JD has to answer t
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by sglane 9y ago
>Can you tell me how they are generally regarded? Below JD/Kubota/NH, above LS/Kioti.
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by sglane 10y ago
The only way to do this is to have a 100% death tax and to have an open bidding system for all assets. Otherwise you'll see deathbed $1 transfers of wealth. The open bidding system for any transfer at any point in life. The problem w
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by sglane 10y ago
To quote the HN Guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
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by sglane 10y ago
It sure does quite a lot and I love it, but I wish it could handle SIP and WebSockets without too much trouble.
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by sglane 10y ago
>Chrome was developed by different teams with different expertises, some of them acquired from other companies. To expand on this, Chrome and Safari use webkit as their rendering/layout engine which is a fork of KDE's KHTML. I
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by sglane 10y ago
The folder you just changed into has 30,000 files and you're ssh'd in over a slow network.