Month: January 2015
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O’Reilly Media book: Being Blameless – The Best Way To Learn From Failure (and Success)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033981.do Failure is inevitable and a postmortem analysis, conducted in an open, blameless way, is the best way for IT techs and managers to learn from outages and near-misses. In this insightful book, IT veteran Dave Zwieback shows you an approach for making postmortems blameless, so you can focus instead on addressing areas of fragility…
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O’Reilly Media book: Bitcoin – A Blueprint for a New World Currency
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037040.do Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind Bitcoin could prove to be much more significant. This O’Reilly report takes you beyond the currency (Bitcoin 1.0) and smart contracts (Bitcoin 2.0) to demonstrate how the blockchain might become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes,…
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“TV Transcript Database” – wow!
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/tv_show_episode_scripts.php I came across this site, when I searched for quotes from Downton Abbey.
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Downton Abbey – season 5 – complete transcripts and more
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/tv_show_episode_scripts.php http://downton-abbey.hypnoweb.net/guide-episodes/saison-5.211.978/ You can find there complete transcripts of episodes 1 through 4. And yes, in English, although I found them on a French website.
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Mac OS X, “Mission Control”, multiple desktops, switching to other desktops with a keyboard shortcut
Yes, I know, I can switch to Mission Control, use the keyboard shortcut to switch to another desktop, and them switch back from Mission Control, but all that should work without interacting with Mission Control, but once in a while OS X forgets that, and it will only work smoothly again after rebooting OS X.
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shell scripting: “for i in $( … )” or “… | while read” ?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-09/msg00291.html The link refers to some code like the one I am working on right now: $ for i in $(seq -w $n); do …; done And the guy replying on that ml thread suggests to better write it this way: $ seq -w $n | while read i; do …; done His reason: to prevent…
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shell scripting: “Can I use seq to go from 001 to 999?”
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152857/can-i-use-seq-to-go-from-001-to-999 The thread got closed there, so I cannot reply to it there … I am not sure, why people ask that kind of question instead of simply trying it at least – but then … Yes, of course that works, and not just with the coreutils’ seq but also with BusyBox’s seq, esp. if…
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2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge
http://perlmaven.com/2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge The message that Gabor sent out to pm_groups got forwarded in quite a few different ways: “replied to” with “> ” before every line “forwarded” but “inline” “forwarded” as attachment I haven’t seen a “redirect” yet 😎
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“Downton Abbey” Episode #5.2 (2014) – Amari-Sali’s extended comment
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3666186/combined#comment