Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ...
by taneq on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:11AM
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Oh yeah, the golden rule for quick hacks is NEVER show them to someone non-technical, especially someone non-technical who's in your chain of command.
I learned that one after mocking up some UI screens using VB6 and then having to explain over and over again that no, just because we showed you some buttons on a page doesn't mean that the program (which had to be a Java applet, mind you) was "almost done."
I learned that one after mocking up some UI screens using VB6 and then having to explain over and over again that no, just because we showed you some buttons on a page doesn't mean that the program (which had to be a Java applet, mind you) was "almost done."