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offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 06:50 [#02483435]
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youtube-dl

that kicks ass
ripped 109 tracks from a soundcloud page in 2 minutes

any other good stuff out there?



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 07:30 [#02483436]
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rsync (for backups and uploads)
ffmpeg (for video)
find (for performing complicated operations on a
very specific subset of things)


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 07:31 [#02483437]
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figlet
gifsicle
ImageMagick


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 07:33 [#02483438]
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wget
sox
ddrescue


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 07:44 [#02483439]
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are you good at k&r c~?
u read unix power tools?

hack the gibson maan


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 07:49 [#02483440]
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youtube-dl www.youtube.com/ScoopexUs
amiga assembler vidz


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 07:59 [#02483441]
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i got a copy of the dragon book
you wanna buy it

however, my copy of k&r is not for sale


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 08:24 [#02483444]
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whats the dragon book?


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 08:51 [#02483451]
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EpicMegatrax, which programming languages are you good at?


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 08:52 [#02483452]
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those links are great dude


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 09:27 [#02483454]
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the dragon book is about designing compilers, and i
haven't really delved into that since uni. millions of
people know C, i figure, but those who seriously grok the
contents of the dragon book brings you down to the tens of
thousands. as such, it's really just an interesting book to
own and it has a pretty cover. $10 plus ship

my first language was C. i rarely use C/C++ personally or
professionally these days, but any time i do, my brain is
right back into it after a week or two on the job. k&r is
sort of the sun tzu's art of war for the C. it's ancient +
simplistic but still deep... and i actually pull it off the
shelf sometimes.

i mostly use PHP, these days. not because PHP is
particularly good, but because i use it so often i don't
have to go look up function names and crap sixteen times an
hour. perl too, a bit. perl has a hell of a history, a lot
of wacky fun libraries. it still feels more natural to me to
write spiderbots in LWP despite barely remembering how to
read a file, and the syntax being only slightly prettier
than bill the cat's ooP ACK routine

at this point, i imagine my post has you screaming with
boredom. it's like when i start rambling about what hardware
is really, truly capable of doing a good 303 noise, and the
people on the linux message boards have no idea what i'm
talking about


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 09:57 [#02483455]
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ahead of its time


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 10:04 [#02483456]
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enjoyed the posts

k&r has a lot of examples for manipulating text
i have an idea for a simple html page that gets manipulated
by c programs at time intervals throughout the day
it could make text files come alive
every time you hit refresh the page looks different


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 10:10 [#02483457]
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unix is a lot like a modular synth. it's hundreds of little
things blending together as a group in order to function as
a singular thing, much as a modular has VCOs and envelopes
and LFOs. it's very frustrating and erratic at first, but
after enough time at it, you're in the flow of things, and
coming up with ideas to triple-purpose xargs in the shower


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 10:15 [#02483459]
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yeah
do you use freebsd?
need to install that soon


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 10:34 [#02483460]
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linux or bsd flavor unix?
eurorack or motm format modules?

arch linux or centos?
buchla or serge?


 

offline AcidDuel from United States on 2015-01-30 10:40 [#02483461]
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lunix is modular
different people work on different parts of it
it comes in various flavours

always loved the freebsd installer
made everything easy to understand
easy to install new warez



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-30 10:49 [#02483463]
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i guess my point was, both serge and buchla are top-tier
modular flavors, and you can do great stuff with either. i
can't just tell you "this one is the best" because it's
really a personal preference thing. something that emerges
after you develop a personal relationship with the beast.
some are crap, and i can steer you away from those, but
freebsd is not crap. i like arch linux myself, but if you
like freebsd, then stick with that.

i should note, i actually have been chewing on this to
proper neckbeard levels. first i doubt myself: "would have
been more accurate to go with linux : banana :: bsd :
phonejack??" then i say no, motm has this hippie california
feel that really syncs up with BSD, and linux is rather
european


 


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