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From the article: “I'm constantly surprised by how many people don't know you can do this. It's amazing.” I'm probably nitpicking, but sad to see this in the article. One of the things I love about Julia's writing otherwise is that it is free of this sort of 'I'm surprised that you don't know this simple thing.' expressions.
From the article: “I'm constantly surprised by how many people don't know you can do this. It's amazing.” I'm probably nitpicking, but sad to see this in the article. One of the things I love about Julia's writing otherwise is that it is free of this sort of 'I'm surprised that you don't know this simple thing.' expressions.
I'll fix it when I get home.
You know, sometimes i get slightly eye-rolly at the tone of Julia's articles, but fuck, this sort of attitude in programming is so much better than the alternative (i.e. lkml). Bringing more positivity and jolliness into programming is important. Fuck the traditional macho programmer attitude. I'm gonna try to be more like Julia.
Also, I have noticed that she takes simple things we don't usually think deep about and drill down to it opening up underlying complexity and pointing a metaphorical magnifying glass at it. (An example I quickly picked from the blog http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/28/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-p...)
I hadn't heard of perf - very handy indeed. It's in the linux-tools package for distros using apt. You will need to install both the generic package and the one for your kernel version.
From the article: “I'm constantly surprised by how many people don't know you can do this. It's amazing.” I'm probably nitpicking, but sad to see this in the article. One of the things I love about Julia's writing otherwise is that it is free of this sort of 'I'm surprised that you don't know this simple thing.' expressions.
hey! Thanks for pointing this out. As you say, I do normally try to audit my writing for feigned suprise like this!! I'll fix it when I get home.
You're awesome!