On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
$ grep 'foo bar' *.[ch]
$ display *.jpg
$ rm *.p[ml]
Oh, sure, it *could* all be done based on actual content, but while
you're looking at the first file, I'm already done processing the
directory.
I guess it's
On 2009-07-09, at 16:55, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
$ grep 'foo bar' *.[ch]
$ display *.jpg
$ rm *.p[ml]
Oh, sure, it *could* all be done based on actual content, but while
you're looking at the first file, I'm already done processing
Abigail wrote:
Now, go write a useful, non-trivial, Makefile that doesn't use extensions.
Pointing at a system designed on a system steeped in the idea of file
extensions as type identifiers as proof its difficult to work without them is
design hate of the highest magnitude. Its the anthropic
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On 7/9/09 7:07 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Its the anthropic principle run wild.
My favorite is _Anthropic Principle Goes Wild 3: Cancun_.
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On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 14:36 +0200, Abigail wrote:
Thinks I often do:
$ grep 'foo bar' *.[ch]
$ display *.jpg
$ rm *.p[ml]
Oh, sure, it *could* all be done based on actual content, but while you're
looking at the first file, I'm already done processing the directory.
Now, go
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:25, Martin Ebourneli...@ebourne.me.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:20 -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
5 text/x-c
3 text/x-c++
file attempts to identify C versus C++?
I imagine that it uses a highly sophisticated algorithm to distinguish
between the two of
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:36:56 +0200, Philip Newton
philip.new...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:25, Martin Ebourneli...@ebourne.me.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:20 -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
5 text/x-c
3 text/x-c++
file attempts to identify C versus C++?
I
It was thus said that the Great Martin Ebourne once stated:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:20 -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
5 text/x-c
3 text/x-c++
file attempts to identify C versus C++? I'm going to be depressed all
day now, maybe there isn't any hope out
On 2009-07-09, at 06:41, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
Surely you can’t do anything serious with a file based solely on its
extension, and I guess you’d rather my UI would not have to look at
the
header just to choose an icon for a file, *and* the shell completion
is
so much easier to code
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-07-09, at 06:41, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
Surely you can?t do anything serious with a file based solely on its
extension, and I guess you?d rather my UI would not have to look at
the
header just to choose an icon
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com writes:
Everyone is
moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
invariable experience that
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:08, Matthew Kingmatthew.k...@monnsta.net wrote:
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com writes:
Everyone is
moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Yes, like that.
You'll note
Philip Newton writes:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:08, Matthew Kingmatthew.k...@monnsta.net wrote:
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Yes, like that.
You'll note that many web pages -- especially static ones -- still end
in .htm or .html despite the Content-Type header.
Surely
It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated:
(Also: it's not for nothing that MSIE does content sniffing for
certain MIME types [IIRC, including text/plain and
application/octet-stream], simply because there are/were web servers
that sent the wrong content type so that MS
On 2009-07-10, at 02:08, Matthew King wrote:
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com writes:
Everyone is
moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
What file system is that supported in, other than BeFS?
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:27:10PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-07-08, at 14:35, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
NeXTstep had been my primary operating environment for a couple
years in college, and as an experiment recently I tried running some
gnustep apps under my standard windowmaker setup.
Right, so, by process of trial and error, to post a comment on Blogger, I
need to
1: Enable JavaScript
2: Enable cookies
3: Force a page reload
4: Not use a query string in the URL I want to post
[Despite the helpful You can use some HTML tags, such as b, i, a
See, a is in there. No idea
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:39:42AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
It's like you don't actually want me to use your site.
Well, it did finally work:
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