Abhirama

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Thought Stream — week of 10 Nov 2014

Difference between $foo and “$foo” in bash - http://mywiki.wooledge.org/WordSplitting


Find it tough to quantify why someone should be hired. For me it works at a subconscious level & till now my instincts have served me well.


SSR by @intellijidea https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/ssr.html saved the day, added two method parameters to 50 or so instances in the code base in one shot.


Do not know how to use a Linux utility, hit the man page, resist the temptation to Google, you will be wiser by the dozen.


All the people hailing Microsoft open sourcing .NET as a great business strategy, Java did not prevent SUN from westering.


Anyone coming to Shell scripting from other programming languages gets maimed by the white space land mine.


https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-code-cloud/ Feels great to pat one’s own back -

@abhyrama: In near future, operating systems might be immaterial, your preferred stack will be the layer you deal with.


In the modern age, nirvana is defined as the state where you can resist this - http://xkcd.com/386/


What’s up with Bruce Willis acting in all sort of crap movies?


Dark brooding roles and Keanu Reeves are made for each other.


Usually when people say they love open source what they are really saying is they love the fact that it is free.