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Turned out that one was, as you said, a totally unrelated toy language, nothing like this hurl.dev one.

ryenuson The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition

Thanks! ICYMI: GoAWK [1] - A POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support.

ryenuson The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition

Ah good to know, thank you! Meanwhile I found it, it was the awk from Debian 10 that lacked `length(array)`, see the related nvm pr [1].

[1]: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/pull/2917/

ryenuson The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition

Awk is really great, for those knowing nvm [1], I used awk to make `nvm ls-remote` run more than 10 times faster [2] by replacing the related shell script with around 60 lines of awk script [3], and I was quite happy with the improvement.

It's not really a one-liner, neither something big, but one can take that as an example regarding that awk is really not just for one-liners.

Meanwhile having `--csv` support is really nice. I'd also like to see things like a builtin `length` function to be standard.

[1]: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/ [2]: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/pull/2827/ [3]: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/blob/9a769630d7/nvm.sh#L1703-L...

ryenuson Explore the Silk Roads

Since you have Zhangye, you might also want to include Dunhuang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang)?

And there's Mogao Caves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves) which can't be missed.

ryenuson The fish shell is amazing

Indeed, the following should work with upcoming fish 3.4:

    echo "pwd: $(pwd)"

See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8059

ryenuson Bash PS1 Generator

Nowadays there's the `--show-current` option:

    git branch --show-current

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-branch

ryenuson Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

Wow, thank you for mentioning EmEditor, I used to keep it as a must-have app when used Windows, preferred it over UltraEdit, EditPlus etc, good memories. Nowadays it's all vscode though.

ryenuson Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?

  -5/2 -> -2 (ok, rounds down)

Actually this is rounding up, to zero, as -2.5 < -2 < 0

ryenuson Homebrew 2.2

TIL:

> brew cat sets bat as pager if HOMEBREW_BAT is set

And bat is really a nice alternative to cat.

ryenuson Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”

> In fact, Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android

And those in Google are probably also kicking themselves for taking their eyes off the ball and allowing Oracle to acquire Sun

ryenuson New in Chrome 73

Finally:

* Dark mode is now supported on Mac, and Windows support is on the way.

ryenuson Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

Anyone knows which ruby runtime GitHub uses? Ruby MRI or JRuby etc.?

ryenuson Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

The issue has only 46 comments at this moment because they have restricted the permission to comment, very nice. I thought there would be hundreds of, otherwise.

BTW, it sucks that existing comments cannot be voted or reacted with emojis, they should know this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/monorail/issues/detail?id=4248

ryenuson Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

Have you managed to configure it to behave similar to iTerm 2 in terms of keyboard shortcuts? Would you please share your config?

One thing is, I don't get its layout, is it possible to create a vertical/horizontal split like what (shift+)cmd+d does in iTerm 2?

ryenuson Minimal Ubuntu – how small can it go?

So the RFC comes true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292883

ryenuson Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

The 2015 MBP is still available, though not that obviously: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/

ryenuson GitLab Web IDE

Sourcegraph used to be an online vscode, simply the coolest back then, but seems no more, they suddenly changed direction, possibly due to conflict of interests with Microsoft?

ryenuson Scala Native 0.3.7

And one can use Kotlin with Apache Spark, e.g.:

http://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.hk/2016/11/using-kotlin-la...

ryenuson Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

The worst decision Google ever made (2011)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-worst-decision-google-ever-...

ryenuson Show HN: Swimlanes – A web app for creating sequence diagrams with Markdown

What about logical diagrams? anything for that?

ryenuson Fixing the MacBook Pro

Though not so straightforward to find, the 2015 model is still available for purchase:

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/

ryenuson Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s

This is still happening to this day.

They now redirect skype.com to skype.gmw.cn

ryenuson Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS

So it's a better moment made by the moment team:

https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/moment.html

Major differences:

  * Immutable
  * Months in Luxon are 1-indexed instead of 0-indexed like in Moment and the native Date type.
  * Localizations and time zones are implemented by the native Intl API (or a polyfill of it), instead of by the library itself.
  * Luxon has both a Duration type and an Interval type. The Interval type is like Twix.
  * Luxon lacks the relative time features of Moment and will until the required facilities are provided by the browser.

ryenuson Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework

Except Oracle lawyers wouldn't like Java being literally used as part of the name, though I hate to say this.

That's why javaslang was renamed to Vavr: https://github.com/vavr-io/vavr

ryenuson Modern terminal-based text editor

or maybe `limo`.

ryenuson Relicensing the GraphQL specification

So it's not about any lawsuit, but one (brought up by you etc.) that related to infringement because of being permitted to use (the GraphQL spec).

That seems to mean if there's a lawsuit with the concerned company, but not related to the permitted use of GraphQL spec, no termination then.

Not a lawyer, though.

ryenuson Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

Still an issue: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351,

There's a patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028,

and a recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15289676

ryenuson Learn GraphQL with GitHub

To get started and understand how to build a GraphQL server, here's a nice video: Zero to GraphQL in 30 Minutes [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBGzsb2UkeY

ryenuson Startcom CA applies for inclusion in Mozilla

> a.- StartCom is now a 100% Qihoo360 owned subordinate Company. Management has also changed.

> b.- There´re no StartCom employees working at any Wosign premises. StartCom has subcontracted Qihoo 360 for all PKI and development management.

This made me laugh, LoL.

For those don't know much about Qihoo 360, it's an infamously unethical company. Its flagship antivirus software behaved like a virus, which is very difficult for non-pro computer users to remove. It sneakily "deployed" its so called security guard software to many innocent users' computers meanwhile actually behaving like a backdoor, leaking user data not like a sieve, but a pipe. It's not uncommon to see a tip upon Windows startup telling things like "Your computer boots faster than 90% users in the country", tricking the users to take some "proudness" from it.

Don't just believe me, go check the Controversies section of its Wikipedia page [0], and do yourself some research. Say the previous StartCom owner China Unicom is an amateur hacker, then Qihoo 360 is a pro, but a much more evil one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360#Controversies