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I happened to use this last week because we needed test data for a community tree in an app we're building. There are nine communities, and we needed test cases with 0, 1, and many subcommunities. This not only provided ready test cases, but the team is learning celestial facts while working on the feature!

[1] https://devstronomy.com/#/datasets

Comment · 7 years ago

> make it good

Are you arguing that Firefox is not even "good," or just not perfect?

(I use Firefox on a Mac all day and the only kind of "resource hunger" I've observed can be pinned to the web pages that it's running.)

Comment · 7 years ago

An inspiring team doing interesting work. But see previous

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Capstone,+a+Tablet+for+Thinkin...

Comment · 7 years ago

Ha, that is always my go-to story for that idea. So far I've never met anyone who's heard it. Great autobiography.

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks, I did search a bit and at any rate couldn't find an actual source for the quote itself.

Comment · 7 years ago

"There are dark corners in the Bourne shell, and people use all of them."

https://books.google.com/books?id=KJQRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=P...

Comment · 7 years ago

I started to write this up then remembered answering a similar question a while back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398098

I'm still on that "detour," but still a believer.

Edit: some dead links there. This "bootstrap" directory contains the custom tangler and the custom rule processor. This 10K, plus the tiny configs in the root, are the only code in the project not in documents.

https://bitbucket.org/gavinpc/willshake/src/master/bootstrap...

Comment · 7 years ago

Have you tried Tup? http://gittup.org/tup/

I used it on a project with many thousands of files and hundreds of (mostly dynamic) build rules. This was a literate program, and most build steps required the extraction of code from the source docs --- including build rules themselves --- and I still maintained sub-second updates.

I think Joe would have loved it.

Comment · 7 years ago

This kind of as-you-type evaluator is extremely valuable to me. I've written a few tools to support this in emacs, and I use the JS one all the time.[0]

I also wrote one for Graphviz (which outputs to an SVG buffer), and sometimes I'll put the output from the JS playground in `play-graphviz` mode so I can see real-time graph output from JS (by writing code to print dot graphs). ATM I don't know any other tools that can do that sort of thing, let alone compose independent ones to that end. Long live Emacs!

[0] https://bitbucket.org/gavinpc/play-modes/src/default/js-play... (There is an odd bug in OSX where the first character of the input is eaten, so I always begin these "playgrounds" with "/// playing with <whatever>". There are some other oddities which I should document.)

Comment · 7 years ago

At least "Bomb" would be short. "Full Metal Jacket" is a dreadful name in every sense, worsened only by the author's cringeworthy backstory. To paraphrase the parent, it reeks of immaturity.

I "wouldn't hold that against" the tool if it had technical merit.

Comment · 7 years ago

> In 2018 it is fully possible to use authentication libraries

So — getting back to the OP — which libraries?