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Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#41

I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.

Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.

I've been using https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ for years.

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#42

>By default the echo command takes the input (standard input or stdin) from the keyboard and returns the output (standard output or stdout) to the screen. This isn't right is it? Echo doesn't read anything from stdin: echo Does this command makes any sense? $ ls | grep *.txt /tmp grep: /tmp: Is a directory I found the whole text-fu section quite confusing...

This doesn't work either:

    $ echo The quick brown; fox jumps over the lazydog > sample.txt
    The quick brown
    bash: fox: command not found

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#43
"During this time other efforts such as BSD, MINIX, etc were developed to be UNIX like-systems. However, one thing that all these UNIX like-systems had in common was the lack of a unified kernel."

BSD and MINIX lack a Unified kernel? What?

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#44
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I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.

$11/year? Certainly not bad, but there are hostable solutions that would work on $15/year VPSs, and that's at consumer pricing and supports multiple users. On the other hand, this is just penny pinching and <$1/mo is phenomenal.

There's a story behind it - apparently there was a better response from consumers with annual pricing. People often didn't understand the concept of a one-off fee for a web service, and got confused between the once-off and the recurring options

> Right now, users pay a one-time signup fee that grows by a fraction of a penny with each new signup. At the moment, this fee is $10.55. Pinboard also offers archiving accounts, which cost $25/year. Users who upgrade after joining Pinboard can deduct the signup fee from the first year of archiving.

> Under the new scheme, basic Pinboard accounts will cost $11/year, while archiving will continue to cost $25/year.

> My main reason for making the change is so that I don't have to keep explaining how pricing works. An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. Others accuse me of baiting and switching them when they upgrade to archiving and get a renewal notice. Note how much easier it is to describe the new policy than the old one.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#46
post #9

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Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.

I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.

getpocket.com

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#47
post #4

I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.

If you upvote a post you can access then later by clicking on "saved stories" in your profile page. There is a "saved comments" too.

I wrote a script to export them:

https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON

Re: Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

#50

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bought by Yahoo, everyone forgot it exists.

That was a long time ago. It has changed hands several times since then.

I used to love delicious. I loved seeing who bookmarked the same thing and following them for more similar content.
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