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Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
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In bash at least, cd with no arguments takes you back to the home directory.
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#14Off-topic, but I'm always looking for hour long talks/videos to put on while I'm cooking and I can't sit at a computer, or my hands are too dirt to finger a book. Thanks HN for giving me good content! I maintain a list of these and they come up sufficiently often enough that I always have something to watch when I have to cook.
I've been doing a HN search for youtube|vimeo|video as a poor man's version of HackerNewsTV for years. Basically with the same goal: having something to watch while cooking, eating, for siesta or to help me sleep at night But I'd love a better UI to that data (hint to HN team)
Would be nice to have a ?type=video filter on the URL or something like that
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#15Off-topic, but I'm always looking for hour long talks/videos to put on while I'm cooking and I can't sit at a computer, or my hands are too dirt to finger a book. Thanks HN for giving me good content! I maintain a list of these and they come up sufficiently often enough that I always have something to watch when I have to cook.
I've been doing a HN search for youtube|vimeo|video as a poor man's version of HackerNewsTV for years. Basically with the same goal: having something to watch while cooking, eating, for siesta or to help me sleep at night But I'd love a better UI to that data (hint to HN team)
Can you share that stash with us perhaps?
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#16Off-topic, but I'm always looking for hour long talks/videos to put on while I'm cooking and I can't sit at a computer, or my hands are too dirt to finger a book. Thanks HN for giving me good content! I maintain a list of these and they come up sufficiently often enough that I always have something to watch when I have to cook.
http://contalks.reddit.com
I try to post up as many talks as I can find.
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#17I very recently found about his love for C macros http://research.swtch.com/shmacro
Looking at it reminded me of my first C textbook from school; "C as a second language for native speakers of Pascal". If I recall correctly, it has a section on macros you can define to make your C code look more like Pascal - much like how Bourne preferred Algol syntax.
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#18I very recently found about his love for C macros http://research.swtch.com/shmacro
Looking at it reminded me of my first C textbook from school; "C as a second language for native speakers of Pascal". If I recall correctly, it has a section on macros you can define to make your C code look more like Pascal - much like how Bourne preferred Algol syntax.
At which point you wonder if you're writing C code anymore. There's also the king's way http://www.merl.com/publications/docs/TR93-17.pdf
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#19Off-topic, but I'm always looking for hour long talks/videos to put on while I'm cooking and I can't sit at a computer, or my hands are too dirt to finger a book. Thanks HN for giving me good content! I maintain a list of these and they come up sufficiently often enough that I always have something to watch when I have to cook.
I've been doing a HN search for youtube|vimeo|video as a poor man's version of HackerNewsTV for years. Basically with the same goal: having something to watch while cooking, eating, for siesta or to help me sleep at night But I'd love a better UI to that data (hint to HN team)
mlvljr: your account seems to be banned, or something.
Re: Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh [video]
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
In bash at least, cd with no arguments takes you back to the home directory.
You just saved me about ten seconds a day.
cd - is another nice one, cd to the last working directory (there is a powerful variant using push and pop), but with the - you don't have to remember to push at any point.