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ConEmu is the best solution on Windows. Hopefully the new Windows Terminal brings console API changes that ConEmu can take advantage of; there is a lot of black magic going on unde…

That was my first thought. But then I realized some guy basically broke something so his stuff would work and someone else's wouldn't. He didn't destroy files, but that was malicio…

It's better that "Hello, world" take 5 seconds to print than 1 second to crash and print nothing.

Speaking of code readability, the article uses a function in the example called "isNotOpenSource()". If you have a function that returns a boolean, it's best not to put another boo…

Check out Stallmans argument. He ends up at the same place as Theo, but goes into the why's: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

It's harder to be moral when you know you can do the wrong thing and get away with it.

I see your point and not necessarily disagreeing, but noting the creators of typescript refer to it as a superset.

It's really kinda both, but context sensitive.

I'd almost guarantee that it's Typescript. But being a superset of Javascript, it's still correct to call it Javascript.

> The Bash scripts were good, but if someone was working on a Windows machine, they couldn’t be run Git Bash. The only requirement is installing Git For Windows, which is an easy i…

It's a PITA for any reasonably large/old CVS repo. Partly because CVS is fundamentally broke.

Just to note, you can indeed browse build artifacts on GitLab, but finding it is a PITA. You have to drill into your CI Job and there's a button link on the right. It'd be nice to …

I come to this site for articles like this.

It could be. I got into this mode of thinking many years ago and Debian may be just as suitable nowadays.

Trying to install Slackware on a laptop with 4MB of RAM is my Linux coming of age story.

I think perls niche is sort of it's downfall. For example, I used to work at a company with 70% C, 25% shell script, and 5% perl. Any time I ran into a perl script I had to switch …

I use debian for my own stuff, but always push for RHEL/CentOS at work. Why? Because it's easy to persuade people into keeping the damn systems updated. As long as you stay within …

Under what shell? If this works as described, then it's broke.