I got an email from Amazon.ca yesterday with a promotion: “Loonie Deals on Books”. The introductory text to the deal says:

Take advantage of the robust loonie with special discounts on thousands of titles. Browse through our lists to discover great bargains on new and former bestsellers across all categories, as well as perennial favourites.

Last time I checked:

CDN: 1, USD: 0.78

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find . -name “*.some_ext” | xargs grep ’some_pattern’

Man does this not age very well when you do it al lot. Yeah yeah, you’re a smart-ass and you can write a shell script and make that easier. But what if there was a tool you could use to do it smartly? With highlighting and a slew of other features? Enter ack.

I’ve been ignoring my homies on #pso with a stupid kind of ‘i got fingers and i can type’ smugness. So wrong was I. His name is Bill, he’s my new friend.