Testing time: git clone --single-branch -b bell Tybor@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/liberty-eiffel.git bell
For real, this time.
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Category: Mood
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Learning VIM
She likes to write on the terminal. She is learning VIM. She is 6 years old.
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Today I have realised that I never published all the programs I have been writing during my career in the building industry.
I always have been thinking that they weren’t worth to be published as I would have labelled them as “little hacks”.
Until today.
Today I realised that they actually show some of my programming skills, mainly used to deal with the little frictions between legacy and newer softwares.
For today I will publish them, partly here, partly on github. After all so many people have been using github repositories as a coding portfolio.
I may discover that those that I rate as skills are staple, day-by-day skills that every system administration worth of the name shall have or that those are not actually skills. I will take the risk of being joked on the net as the civil engineer who liked to behave as an IT professional but he’s actually a low tech guy.
Actually during all those years – you won’t believe it – for this company I’ve been coding in:
- Commodore 64 BASIC
- Amigabasic
- AREXX
- Python
- some bash, also using ask and sed
- a little C
So, let this “Paolo the wannabe” series being…
Fun, Liberty Eiffel, Mood
I’m really doing it
Yes, I’m really doing it. Cloning Liberty eiffel repository into a virtual Microsoft Windows instance to help Petroo’s effort of porting GNU Liberty Eiffel to Windows, the same day its Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90%
Eiffel, Fun, Liberty Eiffel, Mood, Senza categoria
Dumbest line of code, ever
properties_upper: INTEGER is do Result := properties_upper-1 end See my commit of 7 January 2016. Actually I commite that line on the previous 20 june, but I quite remember I wrote it in the middle of the night. I shall stop wasting time in early evening and stick to coding….
Fun, Mood
Today’s lesson
Never, ever say “I was never…” bacause Murphy’s law will soon take its toll Lately I’ve written I was never stopped working by an upgrade. Well, actually I wasn’t stopped but have you ever tried working on a box that keeps swapping and thrashing at your slightest action?
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The more I work in the construction industry the more I’m deeply disgusted.
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Corporate anniversaries bring bad luck
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paolo@rigel:/var/log$ grep -e “sda” -e FAILED kern.log|wc -l
552!
May I suggest to add a new spare disk in the RAID array?
And a proper backup policy of root filesystem too?
Fun, Mood
Who said Knight Rider?
Nvidia’s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove. I’ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot. “KITT, drive me home!”