nburger's comments

On: Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo...

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The tail number is a prime number (in reference to Prime customers) and is also the year AMZN went public.

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I totally missed that. Good eye!

On: CSV Challenge

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Here's a solution using just one instance of jq+awk that handles the "multiple files" scenario and writes proper headers on each:

jq -r '.[]|[.timestamp,.name,.creditcard]|@csv'<data.json|awk -F, '{if ($3!=""){f=substr($1,2,10)".csv";gsub(/-/,"",f);gsub(/"/,"",$0);c="(echo name,creditcard;cat -)>>"f;print $2","$3|c}}'

Strangely, the OP's "solution" actually omits the quotes around the strings, which adds unnecessary complexity.

On: CSV Challenge

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If we're going for succinctness, you could combine these all together:

(echo '"Name","Credit Card"'; jq -r '.[] | select(.creditcard) | [.name, .creditcard] | @csv' data.json) >> `date +%Y%m%d`.csv

[vitorbaptistaa → nburger]

Nice trick to write the headers, thanks!

On: Entitlement issues (2009)

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Have you taken a look at BookVibe? [ http://www.bookvibe.com/ ]

On: Started.in Atlanta

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Congratulations on the launch! Also an Atlanta native and signed up!

[smedawar → nburger]

Thanks! Spread the startup news!

On: Shellconf.py – Simple remote configuration with sh...

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Good stuff. Take a look at Fabric for another (and very commonly-used) example of Python wrapping SSH: http://docs.fabfile.org. Also you might look to Paramiko for a native SSH implementation: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko.

[adionditsak → nburger]

Hi Nburger,

Thanks.

Yeah, Fabric is awesome. Really like it. Have not looked that much at Paramiko tho.

On: Dimsum is like head or tail, but pulls randomly fr...

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or "sort -R"...

[gwern → nburger]

sort -R isn't actually a random permutation or shuffle like one would ordinarily expect from a 'random' output: if you read the man page very carefully, you'll notice it only speaks of 'random hash' which means that 2 lines which are identical (quite possible and common) will be hashed to the same value and placed consecutively in the output.

(This bit me once. Filed a bug about maybe clarifying the man page, but nope, apparently we're all supposed to recognize instantly the implication of a random hash.)

On: Startup docu teaser #01: Michael Hartl

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Good luck -- looks interesting. "Documentary" misspelled, fwiw.

[e_w → nburger]

thx!

On: AWS Storage Gateway

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Note that the $125 "gateway" fee is minor compared with the storage/transfer fees themselves - $0.14/GB/month for storage, for example. At that rate, a small 5 TB volume is already $700/month.

On: Military software predicts Greek default

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I stopped reading after glancing at the caption underneath the article's image:

"Wherever Senturion is housed it probably looks a lot like this, but more ominous and with blinkier lights."

That this statement is less than rigorous doesn't speak well for the remainder of the article.

[stavros → nburger]

The remainder of the article is equally tongue-in-cheek.