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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 …

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 use…

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 gracef…

It still seems to be OK to bring Note 7s on airplanes. Not bottles of water, though, that's too dangerous.

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.

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…

Making static websites for over a decade, now. (Can make user-editable wikis as well.)

The Economist is following mainstream journalism in general, then.

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…

Babies need to be taught how to use the nipple. Not intuitive.

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 $ summa…

Since I develop backup software, this is a problem I needed to solve (e.g., for verifying that restore works). So I wrote a tool: http://liw.fi/summain/ It produces output that is …

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 ope…

I've followed, and sometimes participated in, variations of this discussion since 1989. I wrote up an article about this topic on the Yakking blog, recently: http://yakking.brancha…

The Unix command /bin/true (do nothing, exit with code zero) can be implemented as an empty file. When it's run, the kernel doesn't recognize it as binary code, so it gives it to /…

I have been keeping a journal in a private ikiwiki instance for several years now. Basically, I set up an ikiwiki blog that generates a static website, served by Apache over localh…

That seems like a very old version to review.

I don't recognise the Nautilus I use from the screenshot or the description. For example, I have a completely different sidebar and I have no problem having multiple tabs in a wind…

http://ikiwiki.info/ supports comments. There are several variants of "static website": * Site is generated by its author, and won't change until author changes and re-generates it…

I doubt joeyh wants to add tools to moreutils that already exist as separate projects of their own.

Here's another tiny browser: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ At a previous job, we built and installed and ran a system test with that faster than Firefox unpacked the source tarba…

It tells you that your file is corrupted. You can then restore from backups, re-download, or take some other corrective action, such as delete the file, reboot the machine, re-inst…

SSH is originally from Finland. Unlike GPG, it's not an implementation of a pre-existing spec, so it might make a somewhat better example.