Nomnom Cookie posted:

if history substitution is enabled, ! is a special character within "". however, if you escape it with \ then bash doesn't remove the \. what if i want to substitute a variable into a string containing a ! ? afaict the answer is gently caress you or use a heredoc

Zlodo posted:

lol @ serious posting for like 100 pages about loving filesystem paths

you loving nerds

Dirk Pitt posted:

Why in the world would microsoft even entertain killing an objectively good thing?

rsjr posted:

i got a job offer doing erlang backend for a telephone company

it pays ~20% more than what i currently make. what should i do.

"i don't know erlang at all"

"you're really smart it's cool, u'll learn"

"woah you guys are pretty cool i am smart"

Johnny Cache Hit posted:

i once worked with a guy that would constantly commit gigantic loving diffs that had almost nothing to do with what he was working on

turns out he c/ped some poo poo into his .vimrc that woudl poorly regex the entire file on every save to try to change soft tabs to hard tabs. but he also ahd some completely contradictory settings somewhere else in his vimrc that set vim to insert like 4 spaces on every tab. so his diffs ended up as some horrible mix of tabs and spaces and he would infect every file just by opening and closing them, he didnt even have a clue

well thats when i decided vim was worse than butt cancer hope u liked my story

uncurable mlady posted:

man you're dark today

nrook posted:

poo poo I forgot c# had nice anonclasses like that, it's been too long. also I'm not sure I ever knew there was a select that gave you the indices. in that case yeah the linq way is better

and yeah good code would not require a list of indices ever. But I was passing them into bad code, which wanted the list of indices. doing dumb things with sequences to pass them into various functions is a really, really common thing to have to do, so good languages make it easy

ah well, I (think?) java 8 should make this better anyway

Socracheese posted:

i played with webgl a lot thinking it was gonna be the next "thing" and holy poo poo its slow and horrible

also imagine writing a game engine in javascript

i found some google-written physics engine where you could ramp a toy car into a wall made of 9 blocks, as soon as the collison happens and it has to start calculating physics it drops to like 4 fps

tef posted:

Blinkz0rz posted:

3-5 month sprints

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

oh that makes sense

so "from module import *" is not a great choice in most situations?