Are you the owner of bunghol.io?
So disappointed there was no content at that domain.
Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
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Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't a product, this is someones spare time non commercial open source project that they're sharing for other developers to use. If the name bothers you just clone the repo and change it.
Yes, but why couldn't it also be a product name. For example, an express delivery service focused on people who are willing to pay a premium to get TP within an hour. Now, writing this comment had me finally realize that TP, however we mock the hoarders, really is almost unique in its urgency for most people. If you run out of food, you probably have a few hours before you get hungry again. Running out of TP is acute…
Unless you have no access to soap and running water (with the latter causing quite an issue by itself with respect to bowel evacuation), why would it be a problem? I struggle to understand why so many people have an issue with washing their own bunghole. Avoid visiting India (and many other countries that practice increased cleanliness) if that idea is abhorrent.
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#43I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…
It's basically equivalently easy to a python script. JavaScript and Python have almost identical semantics. I'd usuallty reach for node over python because I write JavaScript everyday at $dayjob, and I can I can do so almost without concious effort. Whereas I write python much less often, so it'd slow me down a little as I forget and have to look up details of the syntax, the names of functions, etc. I'm also much less familiar with the python library ecosystem, so I'd need to reaearch whichlibraries to use. Presumably a python developer would have this in reverse.
Bash is different. It's good for stringing toghether external commands, but rapidly becomes a mess if you need to do any complex data manipulation. Argument parsing in bash is also a pain.
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#44I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…
There are many quick one-off scripts that have no specifically best tool to implement them in, this totally seems like one of them.
I would reach for python if I needed some advanced text analysis - like nltk, spacy level - but otherwise I would reach for whatever language I was trying to improve my skills in or whatever language I was using the most in other projects so as to not have to context switch so much.
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#45I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…
I used to write scripts in python. I switched to node. Benefits for me.
1. Python by default requires tons of globally installed libraries. Node by default all libraries are installed local the the project. Nothing to learn. It just does it. That means I don't have to worry about trashing my system and I don't have to tell users a bunch of prerequisites to get it to work.
2. Node is ~8meg and installs instantly. Python is 18-30meg and the install has a long build process IIRC
I will still sometimes reach for python. I needed to parse an 8 gig geodata XML file. The libraries I tried in node were orders of magnitude slower than python for that particular task. I did try node first though since it's where I'm at.
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#46The Amazon app lets me register for push messages when products become available. Why wouldn't I just use that?
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#47Best program name ever. We can all use some Beavis humor these days.
It took a moment to get the zeitgeist connection--one of Cornholio's few intelligible phrases is "I need TP for my bunghole." Wikipedia used to host a comically erudite page about Cornholio, e.g. studiously noting such discrepancies in his speech such as "my people have no bunghole" / "my people have but one bunghole".
Couldn't find exactly what you mentioned, but this is still a terrific read:
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#48I'm not normally one to carp about product names—there was a semi-jokey discussion about calling a shared-viewing product 'Covideo' that bothered some people, but I didn't think it was such a big deal—but surely we can do better than this? Oh, well. As always with open source, it's my place to be grateful for the work you share (thank you!), not to complain about your not doing it on my terms.
Man, who whacked off in your toolshed... so salty.
Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
#49Truly we needed this in these times of TP shortage.