Daily Archives: April 2, 2009

antennas, scanners, and satellites

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On programming, beauty, and stating the obvious:

riney: C# though… i dunno, i’ve always disliked it for aesthetic reasons
beeland: eh, my only formal programming training was about a decade ago in ANSI C
beeland: so it made a good starting point
riney: yeah… there’s nothing monstrously wrong with it… it’s just hard to write really slick, elegant code in it
riney: same thing i feel when i read Objective C code
beeland: I can agree with that, its focused on “solutions” rather than real freestanding monolithic structures
riney it’s fifty billion DelegateThingybobInterfaceReceiverControllers…. very verbose feeling
riney: Java has that problem too but you can avoid it with a degree of care
beeland: hehe, i had the same reaction when i first was it
beeland: OhMyGodWhatTheFuckIsThisMethodDoing(ToThisOtherThing, WhenDoesItEverEnd);
riney: i am rather in love with Ruby at the moment, just for the free-flowyness of it
riney: i’m really sounding like a code snob at this point
beeland: might have to check that out. for my “hack around” stuff I have stuck to perl for the last 4 or 5 years
beeland: mostly just data transformation stuff
riney: but it has so many nice things… the string functions alone are tear-jerking. and blocks…..sigh
beeland: Riney
beeland: You need to get laid.
riney: lol
riney: yeah……that’s going on my blog

little by little, the night comes around

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My command-line knowledge is pretty passable, but sometimes I screw up in hilarious ways.


imogen:~ riney$ mkdir flonk
imogen:~ riney$ echo "I am the first file" > flonk/1.txt
imogen:~ riney$ echo "I am the second file" > flonk/2.txt
imogen:~ riney$ echo "I am the third file" > flonk/3.txt
imogen:~ riney$ cd flonk
imogen:flonk riney$ ls
1.txt 2.txt 3.txt
imogen:flonk riney$ tar czvf * foo.tgz
2.txt
3.txt
tar: foo.tgz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
imogen:flonk riney$ mkdir 1 2 3
imogen:flonk riney$ mv 1.txt 1
imogen:flonk riney$ mv 2.txt 2
imogen:flonk riney$ mv 3.txt 3
imogen:flonk riney$ cd 1
imogen:1 riney$ tar xzvf 1.txt
2.txt
3.txt
imogen:1 riney$ cat 2.txt
I am the second file
imogen:1 riney$ cd ..
imogen:flonk riney$ cd 2
imogen:2 riney$ tar xzvf 2.txt

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
imogen:2 riney$ cat 2.txt
I am the second file