joepvd

Not a German, and not a native English speaker, but I would propose the following (depersonalized, inaccurate, paraphrased, bastard...) translation:

    Mastery reveals itself by the limitations of its scope.

Automated testing, continuous integration/delivery, et cetera download and install packages pretty often. If the type is made in the requirements.txt or package.json or what have you, the error can be repeated very often up to and including production.

To be honest, the what of the performance has not been specified. I take it to mean the add impression performance.

That would break copy file name after a grep, as the separator : would be missed. Different use cases, different wishes...

urxvt allows full perl regex for matching text[1].

[1]: http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection?view=m...

In zsh, you can complete a glob.

For me the same. Funny, as Friedl does barely discuss the ERE and awk (DFA) implementations at length. It is a shame, as the `more interesting` NFA implementations have performance issues under some circumstances. I had hoped the dilemma and engineering decision between features of NFA and guaranteed performance of DFA would get a more realistic discussion.

This is exactly the point: Software production and maintenance is irrelevant for academic credit. So researchers do not have an incentive to make software. This journal explicitly says about itself that it is an ugly hack for academic software writers to get academic credits: A citable entry in a peer-reviewed journal.

awk is a really productive constraint one can oblige to. If a problem looks like a text processing problem, use awk, and let the idioms set in. It is an awesome tool to have on one's belt.

It is, in a sense, liberating to not have any library support for common problems: No need to learn a library (hej!) and, by the way, what you need in any given problem is an easy subset of what that library would do anyway.

Awk has made me focus more on the data there is to analyze, rather than the framework to analyze it with.

As the idiomatic use of awk is also very succinct, I hardly can imagine working efficiently on the command line without it.

You might be interested in skimming through Part III and Part IV of Ethics, written by Spinoza in 1677[1]. He is a very sharp observer of how states of mind occur, react and develop. His attempt to apply mathematical rigor to his observations is interesting in itself, but might provide for a perspective that is useful. It has been for me ;)

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800

It might be. Most of the time, however, it is just a single person getting a longer quote.

In the countries I have been living, paternal leave is a right that comes with having a job and getting a kid. It is not a perk that some noble businesses might choose to provide.

Highlighting the quotes reminds me of a gripe I have with quoting styles in print: When a quote consists of two paragraphs, the first paragraph does not get an ending quote:

    He said, "The first sentence.

    "The second sentence," he continued. 

Somehow my mind gets triggered pretty intensely by these unbalanced quotes.

Does anyone have some background?

Excellent remark. You might want to install `ponysay` and wander around `info ponysay` as a data point.

Interesting and well formulated words that are worth being said. But you are addressing (western?) humanity in general, and not the nerd group GP was wondering about. Do you see an emprical link between nerds and stubborness as GP does? If so, I would be interested in your thoughts.

Whenever you feel lucky, don't assume you are... ;)

True. Yet, the size of this single renewable project is bigger than what happens around my town. It is more significant than the current rounding errors.

I did not install flash in FF, and I do not miss a thing. Sometimes there is this warning that not all content could be displayed, but I would not have a clue what functionality is missing.

Appreciate your opinion. Have been looking into CMake this evening, and my little impression was that it does not make the problem smaller, just different. The things I have been searching for, also did not yield that much high quality answers. Think I will stick to learn autotools enough, as that might come in more handy in general.

Thanks for your recommendation!

Yes, I am just starting something small and new. And am now jumping the cliff of learning C, gcc, make, autotools, and gnulib-tool, of course all at the same time. Talking about a heap overflow ;)

Is it correct that CMake is a replacement for GNU Make? So far, GNU Make has not posed a problem. Can CMake assume some roles of the other tools as well? I am looking to have this interesting ride a little less bumpy.

This is awesome. Have just been strugglingh to get started with this the past few evenings. Will take this as my guide. Thanks for posting!

BTW, good place to start learning the relevant parts of GCC?

NFAs do not do backtracking. So the solution space would look different. More sane, and more performant, but it would not be a pure regex solution.

I guess tags/status/naming hasd a function similar to interpunction: It can guide the consumer of the info in how to relate the items together. Some structure the blurp does not hurt ;)

(I very much agree with your point)

Wow, this is such a simple, practical, and subversive idea that my mind has been too boxed up for coming up with that. Whether I agree with this genius, devious and trivial idea... not sure yet.

What is the point of hiring young shots who would leave you on a whim if there is a slight promise of career advancement?

Hi jsprogrammer, no one is making an argument about computability.

This is about how programmers can express themselves and reason about code. Not many people would choose to write their CMS in assembly.

Hence the euphemism Community Manager.

The mockup interface of i3 + graphical rofi[1] + touch/mouse integration.

This is a very powerful paradigm to pursue: An intuitive version of tiling WMs that appeals to everyone. Go, ziburski, go!

[1]: https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/#window-switcher

> I would personally kill for better mouse integration in i3 (which I use on all my daily-use machines), and I would be extremely happy to augment it with touch screen support (which I would largely want to use for tile manipulation).

This sounds interesting. Would you care to elaborate?

We have a winner of this discussion!

Configuration files are the main initial resource for information about the configuration. If there is no reason to suspect that reality mismatches configuration, there's no reason to go down that rabbit hole.

What the current configuration _means_, however, is a different matter. I have worked on systems where the explanatory comments are only accessible in a different system. One more extra hurdle, whether they are helpful or not...