My opinion: Anytime you share code by posting it publicly, you should always be prepared for negative feedback. In some cases that might be the whole point of posting it: you want to learn from your mistakes.

Very well said.

Let me say it clearly: I've had more visitors from being featured on HN than from TC and mashable together.

I'm not even talking about the conversion rates and the quality that HN brings over TC/Mashable.

It's funny what Torvalds said about "good taste" because I have had the same sort of idea for years. But I'd never heard any programmer articulate it as such. I also call it "sensibilities". I have no clue if his idea of what is "good taste" is even remotely similar to mine, but it's interesting that he also thinks about this notion of "good taste". I can eliminate programmers and programs very quickly using this sort of qualitative assessment. It might not even be necessary to see any code. Just knowing how they would approach a problem, how they would design a solution (Rube Goldberg machine), and of course what language they would use says something about their "tastes". It's not so much a matter of what they do or don't know how to do, it's their selections from among different choices. Imagine hypothetically a programmer knows every language and can implement any design. The language he chooses and the design he chooses tells us about his "taste".

I don't believe he said he liked VB, he actually said as a language it isn't great. What he did say is that the way it simplified database access gave us something extremely powerful and influential even though it was not (and isn't) seen as particularly disruptive or new. This seems inline with other statements from Linus w.r.t. the value of C++ and OOP in general. A very pragmatic man. I believe it also aligns with many of the answers to what will be the "next big thing.".

Hypothesis: Yelp relies on blackmail.

Disprove it.

Haven't looked at the cheat sheets but...

If you just want something readable, a couple of quick and dirty ways are:

    col -bx < typescript|less
    strings typescript |less 

You can further clean things up by deleting unwanted lines or characters using sed.

    strings typescript|sed '1d;/deleteme/d;s/deleteme//g'|less

There's also an old utility called ttyrec/ttyplay you might like.

Thanks. It was more curiosity necessity (although now my mind is thinking, "what can I use this for?").

- interesting with ttyrec/ttyplay. I'll check on this if my mind comes up with something important.

"Informational article" style advertising. In this case the ad is for Puppet/Chef.

The author says: "Or it can form the backbone of a rich, full-powered Javascript command-line, inspired by "perl -pe", and doing for structured data what sed, awk, and grep do for text."

But... "structured data", at least in his examples (and nearly all the JSON I see on the web), is... text. Does his perl script handle binary json?

The author says: "Try doing THAT with any other CLI one-liner!"

Indeed I will, since I do not know perl. Should I learn it?

The folllowing seems to work, but I only tested it on the author's earthporn.json example

1. compile CamelCase filter called yycamel

2. compose throwaway sed oneliner to massage the text

3. pipe through unicode to ascii filter (not included)

4. pipe through yycamel

(I really do not like CamelCase, but whatever.)

   cat > camel.l << eof
   %%
   [ ][A-Za-z]  printf("%c",toupper(yytext[1]));
   eof

   flex -iCfa camel.l
   cc lex.yy.c -static -ll -o yycamel

   sed 's/\"title\": /\
   /g;' earthporn.json |sed 's/[[(]/\ 
   /g;' | sed '/^\"[a-zA-Z]/!d;s/[^a-zA-Z]/ /g;s/  */ /g' |yycamel