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I think Peter Thiel is a indecent human being, and I consider Y Combinator's support for him to be unacceptable. HN is a publicity stunt for YC. Since I do not want to support YC, I no longer want to use HN. However, HN developers are not good enough to implement a "close account" feature, so I can't do that. I'll be more careful in the future about creating accounts on sites without account removal.
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Comment · 10 years ago
I disagree. They're a warning and an error message, and should go to stderr.

It may _also_ be useful to show them on the terminal, in case the user would like to see them now, and has redirected stderr somewhere other than the terminal. In that case a program might show them on /dev/tty as well.

Comment · 10 years ago
Error and warning messages are not status or progress messages, at least not in the context of this discussions, which is that a long-running computation should indicate to the user that it's doing something.
Comment · 10 years ago
Stderr should only get error messages, and, arguably, warning messages. It shouldn't get status and progress messages. Those should go to /dev/tty, and the program should be gracefully quiet if run without a terminal, e.g., from cron.
Comment · 10 years ago
It still seems to be OK to bring Note 7s on airplanes. Not bottles of water, though, that's too dangerous.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes, absolutely. I, for example, am one, though I admit I was born only after humanity has visited the Moon. Still, more than 16 years ago.
Comment · 10 years ago
Aliases are per shell process. You need to reload your .bashrc (or whatever file you define aliases in) in every shell. Shell scripts are instantly available in all shell instances. Also, shell scripts can be invoked by shell scripts, which aliases can't.
Comment · 10 years ago
Making static websites for over a decade, now.

(Can make user-editable wikis as well.)

Comment · 10 years ago
The Economist is following mainstream journalism in general, then.
Comment · 10 years ago
Does pointing that out advance the discussion in a useful way? Does it help having a constructive debate? Does it make anyone's day or life better? Are you just posting in the hope of getting some upvotes for making a funny, snarky short comment? Is your comment actually relevant to the discussion? Does the fact that you ask that question indicate that you already know the answer?
Comment · 10 years ago
Babies need to be taught how to use the nipple. Not intuitive.
Comment · 10 years ago
You run it in such a way that the paths are identical. For example, by using the -r option.

$ mkdir foo

$ echo foo > foo/bar

$ cp -a foo foo2

$ summain -r foo > foo.summain

$ summain -r foo2 > foo2.summain

$ diff foo*.summain

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
The difference between free software and open source isn't copyleft. Both free software and open source embrace copyleft.

From your writing I deduce you are of the opinion that open source is more or less equivalent to permissive licensing, i.e., using BSD-style licenses.

The actual difference between the two is that open source values the productivity benefits that come from sharing, whereas free software is primarily about protecting the freedom of people.

Mocking should be done carefully, and one should avoid mocking things one doesn't understand.

Comment · 10 years ago

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