This is correct; public release is a long way off and features are blogged about more or less as they are developed so the foundation level of the features described by the blog is indicative of the development progress.
I have one more that I like. I call it 'rex' and it basically allows me to do a regex substitution on command line text (not stdin, but actual command line args). It mostly comes in handy when looping over files in a directory where I want to do some kind of processing based on information in the file name. For example, I can tag all of the episodes of a podcast with their track numbers (several podcasts I listen to don't do id3tags) with this command:
for f in *.mp3;
do id3v2 -T `rex 's/^[^0-9]*([0-9]+).*\.mp3$/\1/` $f;
done
The script itself is really simple, but I can post the source if anybody's interested.
Here is the thing. Bash is the default on most of the servers you are going to have to work on,. Centos, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Arch,. etc. So knowing and using Bash is kind of like knowing English in the business world.
Of course, don't let that detract from the usefulness of other shells out there. They can be fun and educational.
Always bring your bag of tricks with you. I have an easy to reach shellscript that I source when on a new/loaned shell. That way I can get my aliases, prompts, functions and everything else I've built to make my life easier.
It's a great idea. But, what code base is this autocomplete going to run off of?
If they are thinking of sourcing the internet itself, there had better be some kind of omniscient, all powerful proofreader in place, because there are a lot of people that submit a lot of code that is HORRIBLY insecure, inaccurate, prone to breakage or just plain spaghetti.
I'd hate to be working on a missile guidance system, only to press <tab> to complete a code block and end up getting some Intel Pentium FDIV instructions.
Title is confusing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Quantum Mechanics is the interpretation of the very small, so the title is essentially 'Have we been interpreting the interpretation wrong this whole time?'
Quantum mechanics in this sense refers to the (very well researched and understood) mathematical theory. This theory permits multiple philosophical explanations of what is 'really happening' to give the mathematical results that we confirm to be correct in experiments.
Any debate about the interpretation of quantum mechanics refers to to this question of what really happens, not to any details of what QM actually predicts will happen. That is, until/unless experiments are devised to separate these philosophical explanations, but nothing much has happened on this front for decades.
Most programs in America, most paintings and all that is apocryphal about Washington always paints him as a humorless, rigid, God-like character. Chernow does a wonderful job of going through the recently released letters of Washington and painting a portrait of a family man, husband, and a man in occasional worry. Love it.
As an update to the 'anonybox' scandal that befell Kickstarter and the web at large, PORTAL promises to deliver at least the software part of the aforementioned product.
The dev's also mention some small chipped and off-the-shelf hardware that you can purchase on your own to run it. And get this - they don't claim to have made said hardware!
Telling.