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If you believe it is possible to become an expert in regular expressions as they exist in modern computer languages in "a couple of hours at best" you are delusional.

Knuth once wrote that you should plan to throw away the first version of any program because you will anyway.

UNIX shells are available on Windows. I use git bash.

The quoted article also says that 25% of downtown area apts are currently vacant.

Every company I've worked at had a responsible person who was the only one able to push code into production. If you allow anyone to do that you are an idiot.

This type of transposition cipher has been easily cracked for decades.

She went to Stanford university which is not an Ivy League school.

I worked at a small tech company that was bought by a large company. They sent a patent attorney to talk to us. He said to send his office anything that might be patentable. He sai…

Back in the 1980s my company wouldn't buy me a database so I hacked one up in awk.

I tried Appengine when it first came out but Google never seemed to support it much so I gave up on it.

Did PHP ever change the misfeature that there is no warning when you reference an uninitialized variable?

A major problem for the A380 is that it is too large for the gates at most airports and the airports have little incentive to build up for just a few flights.

We saw how much worse Skype got after MS bought them. Hard to believe Github will do better.

Just as bad I'd download CPAN module A then CPAN module B and CPAN would totally trash A.

So if your house caught fire you'd tell the fire dept to fuck off and let it burn?

I wish more prisons would spend more time developing programs to give people skills to help when they get out.

Python was never intended to replace Perl. Perl was designed to extract stuff from text files. Python was designed as a scripting language for system programming. IM(Seldom Humble)…

Over the years I've written too many awk one liners to count. Most of them look ugly - hell awk makes Perl look elegant - but having awk in your toolkit means that you don't have t…

I don't find anything in your postings to be reassuring. To say that the regulators will be too busy to mess with my blog won't be of use to me the day they do choose to mess with …

If you are at a high enough altitude clouds would never get in the way so solar power works much better.

> unwillingness to drop the C API Is a feature not a bug. It makes things like NumPy, SciPy and Pandas possible.

This is truly a favorite of mine.

So did they actually fix anything? On 16.04 on my HP EliteBook the sound fucking dies every single time I do a resume. Not to mention the random times the terminal stops printing c…

Beautiful! I had not heard about this kind of addressable LEDs but now I'm inspired to think of my own projects.

Best blinking light machine I ever saw was the Nanodata QM-1. More than a thousand LEDs. It had a program called 'tsq' which was short for 'Times Square' which would display a scro…