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I agree with you entirely, although my comment making pretty much the same point is seeing wild swings in the voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980584

I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models m…

Wow, I would never have expected my comments to have been interpreted that way. Genuinely shocked. Thank you for the feedback.

Actually, we are pretty marginal on sed , but point taken. It feels like there's a difference between "stream mode" and "program mode". I remember when awk was first implemented. s…

OK, so as kazinator has pointed out, awk is now a mandatory part of Posix, and so is genuinely a part of "shell". My reply there says that I and my colleagues still think of awk as…

That I did not know - thank you. We here still think of awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline facilities such as tr, sed, sort, uniq, and so on, but I can see why it c…

It's not a cop-out, we disagree. > Nor is finding "common ground" the goal (this is not some sort of compromise between political parties, it's a technical argument). We disagree. …

Then we'll agree to disagree. I think you are wrong on so many points here, it's clear we're not going to agree, and probably won't find common ground. Thank you, by the way, for y…

I read your entire post, and I didn't miss any of the points you make. I simply disagree with you. Quoting from your post: And here is my initial solution in UNIX shell: # bentley_…

Your "shell" solution isn't really a shell solution, it's an awk solution. It's really valuable to know awk, but it's a bit misleading to claim that "it's shell".

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> Not a true statement. Where are you searching? At the bottom of this page is a search box. Into it type "black bar" (without the quotation marks). It takes you to this link: http…

If you do a search for "black bar" you'll find lots and lots and lots and lots of results, most of which answer your question.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211632

You say: IPFS promises nothing, nor tries to, in the way of permanent archiving. From the IPFS web site[0]: Humanity's history is deleted daily ... IPFS keeps every version of your…

As the quotation goes: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

But you wrote it, so of course it's clear to you. To me, when someone says "the longest part of the program" I immediately think of the routine that stretches over the most lines. …

So when you say "longest" you don't mean "longest section of code", I'm guessing you mean "section of code in which execution spends the longest time". If so, good, but it wasn't c…