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That's the reason I love this site. Moron downvotes and rudimentary objections.

That's the tip of the iceberg. You can do anything in awk. for a in *.c do awk 'function lensort(a,zerp, x,tmp) {for (x = 1 ; x 0) ? arr[c] : ""}}' ${a} done

It's C. Learn C and you know awk. The only awk worth using is G(nu)awk anyway.

The one thing that I hate about 'half assed' comments when people refer to the unix shell is that the half ass really refers to users knowledge of how to actually construct efficie…

This is what glue languages do with data. Not what SQL does with data. Why ever would you want it to?

Almost every small company with the sole survivor has this story. You know where all the bodies are, have done everything once and then discover some uncomfortable truths. You are …

10 years and looking for an out. One thing to be aware of is that long stays are probably better with a large company with a slower rate of change. Staying at a small company for a…

You are speaking to the inmates writing the asylum. Give it up. This is the 4chan of the enlightened.

Totally disagree with this parental assessment of a language. It certainly doesn't apply to spoken languages or most ideal communication modalities. I think you want to fix your pr…

What a mess.

RCS stored directory based modules with tasks in subdirectories. Make or shell script style module execution as part of each task dir + variable files containing settings for the i…

devops as a field of serious study is pretty pathetic. I wouldn't trust a devops 'grad' to do anything or know anything. But with the resurgence in certs and boot camps and other s…

That's why you don't use AWS 'auto' scaling. Every application has it's sweet spot and it's simpler to roll your own when you know best.

After years of working with cfengine then ansible I finally went to a bespoke BSD ports work alike with optional client/server and json configuration components. Never looked back.…

Historical consciousness. You have several generations that have no lessons learned. Old is _bad_ : eco unfriendly, white society/culture washed, etc..the revisionists and PC nuts …

Le Guin is hard to stomach as you get older. I can read CS Lewis and Tolkien with a forgiving eye but not Lewis. Rowling is terrible. Susan Cooper should have had her success.