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One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the earl…

This is the only way I use Linux. I will use the Linux kernel (although it is not my favorite kernel). But I am interested very little in GNU userlands and all the idiosyncracies, …

"... due to sharing some design elements..." But someone downthread said the .co.uk version was not blocked (before you unblocked the .com). Are you implying the .co.uk version did…

To be truthful I was not referring to Bash. ;) Bash is much larger and more complex than the shell I use.

Beautiful. When something better comes along I'll switch away from using the UNIX shell. But I am not sure I'll live long enough to see that day. Meanwhile I am too busy using the …

2014. Has this been posted before? Anyway, I strongly agree. And I think it takes balls to state this opinion because you will be opposed by so many. I also think the Bourne shell,…

kill -15 $pid || kill -2 $pid || kill -1 $pid || kill -9 $pid I could be wrong but I think beginners learn about -9 because beginners are more likely to start processes that they c…

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently This is a URL shortener that just redirects to the full URL that has same number. Easier to type but otherwise acomplishes nothing. Server with the c…

Are "buffer overflows" possible in systems without without virtual memory? I know how I would answer this question but I am curious how others would answer it. EDIT: s/possible/kno…

Gotos in spitbol can be conditional or unconditional.

I thought this was quite amusing when I read it back in the late 90's. At one point their proposed shell was called "Monad". I wondered "Why do they want to do this?" I have gone t…

"... tech industry itself want to own such lousy patents to use against each other." I recall a story where Steve Jobs called Eric Schmidt from Burning Man and threatened Schmidt w…

One more: https://cesanta.com/smartjs.shtml Opinion: Lua is a better choice for IoT but alas the programming "market" has (again) chosen the worse alternative.

"... or even just violating your terms of use, CFAA is merely the statute that enables that." Are you sure? The Court in the 4/29/13 Order says violating terms of use would not be …

"... purpose in granting access." "... for improper purpose, ..." But in the 4/29/13 Order the Court says it would follow Nosal and that purpose is not enough to sustain "unauthori…