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If it didn't exist in the first place, then you had no business searching for it. You should have just known not to look. :)
I like this joke, it kind of reminds me of the difference between `find_by_id` and `find` in ruby on rails. In the former, if a result can't be found it will return `nil` but in the latter it expects the record to exist and so will raise an exception if it can't be found.
> The reaction from the OS is actually rather underwhelming. Somehow related, a coworker at a previous place unmounted some disks on an old AIX production box. It took him a solid minute to realise he had mistakenly unmounted / due to a typo (yes it was possible) as old processes with already opened files were happily serving stuff and only new attempts at opening files were beginning to produce errors. Also, a simil…
Years ago, I forget how, I managed to wipe the partition table of a DOS PC. I ended up reconstructing it by hand using MS-DOS Debug and a copy of Peter Norton's book. Another fun one: "killall" on Linux kills processes with names matching a string. "killall" on Solaris reboots the machine ...
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A friend of mine aliased `git status` `git statsu`; I, being lazier, chose `git st`. Any time saved I lost by not copying his other alias, `c = commit -amSTUFF`...
I must be lazier. I use `gitst` for `git status`. That is 1/6 shorter and IMO not harder to remember.
alias add='git add'
alias st='git status'
alias ci='git commit'
alias br='git branch'
alias di='git diff'I've added a counter (of successful commands in a row) to my bashrc. I've seen it as high as 120. function promptCommand() { LAST_STATUS=$? # Set title of window to dir, then add new line to prompt. PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n' if [ $LAST_STATUS -eq 0 ]; then ((successes++)) PS1+='\[\033[1;32m\][$successes]' else successes=0 PS1+='\[\033[1;31m\][0 $LAST_STATUS]' fi PS1+='\[\033[0;32m\] ' PS1+='\w $(date +%H:%M) \$ \[\033[0m…
Man, I hope you don't use grep very often (by default it uses exit code 1 when it doesn't find anything).
Not to mention tar which is just impossible to get right on the first try.
This reminds me of Vigil, "the eternal morally vigilant programming language" https://github.com/munificent/vigil
> The reaction from the OS is actually rather underwhelming. Somehow related, a coworker at a previous place unmounted some disks on an old AIX production box. It took him a solid minute to realise he had mistakenly unmounted / due to a typo (yes it was possible) as old processes with already opened files were happily serving stuff and only new attempts at opening files were beginning to produce errors. Also, a simil…
(Hilarious and unnerving)
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Don't miss his work at SCP wiki, either. http://www.scp-wiki.net/qntm-s-author-page
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> The reaction from the OS is actually rather underwhelming. Somehow related, a coworker at a previous place unmounted some disks on an old AIX production box. It took him a solid minute to realise he had mistakenly unmounted / due to a typo (yes it was possible) as old processes with already opened files were happily serving stuff and only new attempts at opening files were beginning to produce errors. Also, a simil…