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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Awesome! Installing htop is the first thing I do on my *nix systems. The update is still not up on Homebrew, shouldn't take long though.

FWIW, I did an install from source and it was totally painless--no dependencies to track down. ./configure, make, sudo make install and you're done.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Tree view is sorted by pid only, sorry. I'm afraid moving entire subtrees based on other criteria (such as CPU%) would make the screen unbearably jumpy.

Is there a way to combine all the processes with the same command name? I have a ton of mariadb processes (I don't even know if this is normal, but it seems to be working just fine) and it gets tiring having to scroll them just to glance the numbers on other processes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghwsh6ye1gt32k1/Screenshot%202016-...

Those might be threads. It's best to disable showing threads (F2 - Display options - Hide kernel/userland threads) because they give little information over just the process.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Apropos of nothing: does country of origin (or is it residence; or residence of the main contributors) tell us anything that is at all useful? It seems like information - the sort people go 'oh really, how fascinating' to - but I can't really see how it's relevant. Anyone want to chip in and make a stand for national identity or anything? To me it's kinda like you said 'find and grep are the two main contributions to…

This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.

Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally?

Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time.

You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :)

Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw).

Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

Lol you should try being from Iceland

Iceland has Sigur Rós. Don't be greedy.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally? Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time. You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :) Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside…

Actually I think that a locality and a country are quite different. If instead the comment was "these both come out of Brasilia" then there's perhaps some sense - one might think that perhaps there is some local culture that's aiding this sort of development or that there might be a local initiative that's helping to create a tech hub of sorts [but it could of course just be serendipity]. But just having a country in common - suppose one main developer is in a favela using a XO laptop and another is in a high class penthouse apartment, what's the link then, why does them being in the same country mean anything, they might not even talk the same language or have the same ethnicity.

Some interesting thoughts, thanks to all for tolerating my ponderings.

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