HackerNews Summary (2023-05-22 12AM)

Source: erikmack/qb-escape: Fork of QuickBooks -> GnuCash migration scriptions from https://lwn.net/Articles/729087/

Summary
This is a set of scripts by Jonathan Corbet to get data exported from QuickBooks into a free accounting system. Currently, the scripts only support GnuCash.

Facts

💻 The scripts were created by Jonathan Corbet (corbet@lwn.net).

🔒 Neither Jonathan Corbet nor LWN can be responsible if the scripts mangle accounting data, ensuring data integrity remains the sole responsibility of the user.

📝 The instructions include two parts for exporting data from QuickBooks: Exporting Accounts (Customers, Vendors, etc.) and Exporting Journal.

⚙️ To export Accounts from QuickBooks, open Chart of Accounts, edit all accounts to have different names, and remove forward slashes from all account names. Then, select the types of accounts to export and save the IIF file.

📊 To export Journal from QuickBooks, determine the earliest transaction entry date, reconcile all transactions, and export Journal transactions for all accounts of the company/book by selecting custom dates from the earliest date to today.

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Source: wrench embedded interpreter

Summary
Wrench is an easy-to-use and comprehendable scripting language that can be embedded into systems with a small space. It has a C-like syntax and is fast and compact.

Fact

🔧 Wrench is embeddable and fits into less than 30k of Flash memory. It can run with a memory footprint of ~1k.

🔧 Wrench has a C-like syntax, is weakly typed, and is garbage-collected.

🔧 Wrench is two to three times faster than other interpreters and has bytecode images that are a small fraction of other interpreters.

🔧 It is easy to integrate Wrench, with only two source files. The language is architecture-neutral and can compile anywhere and run anywhere in C++98.

🔧 Wrench can address native C/C++ data and arrays directly from script.

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Source: How to Be a Know-It-All

by animals, plants, and rocks, all of which had their appropriate place in the divine scheme. This hierarchical view of the world is reflected in most early encyclopedias, where the universe is presented as a vast web of interconnected ideas and information, with God at the top and the minutiae of daily life at the bottom.Summary
Encyclopedias have a long history, dating back at least to Pliny who essentially invented the genre. Across cultures and times, encyclopedias have been produced by scholars working under religious authorities and the state. Monastic Christians were the primary encyclopedists in premodern Europe and saw the natural world as a divine gift. Encyclopedias aimed to glorify God, organize Christian themes and texts into a single coherent work, and present the universe as a hierarchical formation.

Fact
– 📚 Pliny essentially invented the genre of the encyclopedia- 📚 Across cultures and times, encyclopedias have been produced by scholars working under religious authorities and the state- 📚 Monastic Christians were the primary encyclopedists in premodern Europe and saw the natural world as a divine gift- 📚 Encyclopedias aimed to glorify God, organize Christian themes and texts into a single coherent work, and present the universe as a hierarchical formation.

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