August 2007
4 posts
Nerds as Bad Connivers →
Avoid exploitation, comrades! “If, as it seems to me, nerd social handicaps reduce nerd abilities to connive far more than their abilities to cooperate, then people should try too hard to avoid being exploited nerds, relative to a social optimum. If so, we have too few nerds, and all else equal we should want to subsidize nerds, to get more of them. ” Seek subsidization, therefore,...
bash for loops vs svn wildcards
Subversion’s copy and move utilities don’t parse wildcards. Specifically, “svn: Client error in parsing arguments.” What to do? I’ve done a fair amount of bash scripting, but I only just grokked this: for file in lib/*.php; do svn cp $file lib/v3/.; done Easy, right? Credit to this post for reminding me that you don’t always have to use php for this...
