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@bahua
I believe your intention and general behaviour does not match my previous comment.
Sincerely,
I'm yealous of your skills / ecosystem / surroundings.
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@scor
Not trying to toot my own horn as much as I'm trying to point out that the guy who wrote the original script was so highly thought of, when his approach was so terrible. -
@bahua .....
perl??? -
@magicMirror
It might not be as popular as other languages, but nothing comes close to it in terms of performance and efficiency for parsing text, other than compiled code. -
@bahua Well - perl has it uses.
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@Haxk20 I'd be careful - that remark in the end might provoke him to create a script that exports the reward in HTML, CSV and JSON just out of spite.
@Demolishun was there any "pretend_busy.sh" as well? -
@theKarlisK no one can forge my award. I have my ways of knowing
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@Haxk20 *puts on his pirate hat aand fake eyepatch* Yarr! If it can be viewed it can be pirated tharr matey!
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@theKarlisK sureeeee
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@bahua Some people get the idea that what they wrote is okay even when it is not. I worked with a guy that was feeding my daemon, written in python, a bunch of text data. I would process the data and send it back. He kept complaining that there was something wrong with my process. I had been testing my daemon with an automated test system that used the same interface. So out of curiosity I logged into the dev server and looked at his C code. He had a bunch of buffer overrun issues and pointer problems. I fixed them, compiled his code, and then informed him of the problem. He was very appreciative of the help, but I am not 100% sure he understood what was going on. So, while people may be capable, sometimes they don't verify their own systems or don't have the capacity to improve past a certain point. Or maybe it just comes down to experience. See enough shit and all problems look the same, for better or worse.
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@bahua look at it this way - every piece of software at some point was absolute sh** when compared to the improved/updated newer version.. and some was so impressive when it was initially released that the authors were viewed as geniuses.
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@bahua People read into stories way too much on here.
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