I would rather it took a number, one per line from stdin. Great idea though.
Everyone want a different delimiter... Hence, I filed https://github.com/holman/spark/issues/23
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Re: Spark
#72This is pretty cool. Unfortunately it's coupled with some of the more obnoxious documentation I have seen recently. While the docs aren't very long, I had to read through a third of it to figure out simply what Spark is. I'm all for being cute, but it shouldn't come at the cost of a basic understanding of what the program actually does and is useful for.
This is a totally fair complaint. Sometimes it is a mystery to me why HN-ers downvote things.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, because you can't deviate below the x axis this is really that much less useful?
This also doesn't meet the high resolution part of Tufte's definition ("a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution"[1]). [1]: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
They're comparatively higher density...
Re: Spark
#74Cool. I also like that he set up a wiki where people can contribute interesting spark one liners: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage
All involve awk or sed. That cuts out a large portion of the potential userbase... Perhaps common uses could be wrapped in options to the script? For instance, an option to graph numbers on separate lines, to graph all numbers in the input in order, to graph a specific column of information (like passing through cut first) or to graph commonly graphed sources?
I feel like they're examples of really awesome use cases, so it shouldn't matter if people can't use them. Not to mention, I feel like this tool is targeted for terminal junkies who likely already have awk/sed.
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You'll have difficulty on Windows if you use PuTTY, since it doesn't do font substitution.
Are there any Windows SSH programs that display? I get nothing but garbage or "." characters for any of the symbols.
Just tried on mintty, doesn't work there either.
Re: Spark
#78https://gist.github.com/1366875 (python)
thanks. here's a couple bugfixes. fixed width calc & handles negative #s
Re: Spark
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Already done, and someone even did a better fix: https://github.com/holman/spark/pull/8
NetBSD seriously doesn't put bash in /bin? That's just broken by design.
I can't speak to NetBSD, but FreeBSD doesn't put any user-installed programs in /bin or /usr/bin, they all go into /usr/local. Since bash isn't distributed as part of the base system, it goes into /usr/local/bin/bash
Re: Spark
#80This is pretty cool. Unfortunately it's coupled with some of the more obnoxious documentation I have seen recently. While the docs aren't very long, I had to read through a third of it to figure out simply what Spark is. I'm all for being cute, but it shouldn't come at the cost of a basic understanding of what the program actually does and is useful for.
In my defense, I did try: https://github.com/holman/spark/pull/34/files