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Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by sah2ed »

JadeNB wrote: post #78
superflyguy wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The act of writing down your own cheat sheet helps you to learn it.

It seems like the chain of four comments starting with Quequau's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17505892 ) and ending with superflyguy's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17507512 ) mean to disagree, but actually wind up agreeing. Is that correct, or is there some subtle distinction among them that I'm missing?

It's the nature of the medium being text-based.

FWIW, I didn't parse each of the nested comments as disagreeing, more like using their individual experiences to elucidate the point of the person they responded to.

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by superflyguy »

sah2ed wrote: post #81
JadeNB wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like the chain of four comments starting with Quequau's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17505892 ) and ending with superflyguy's ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17507512 ) mean to disagree, but actually wind up agreeing. Is that correct, or is there some subtle distinction among them that I'm missing?

It's the nature of the medium being text-based. FWIW, I didn't parse each of the nested comments as disagreeing, more like using their individual experiences to elucidate the point of the person they responded to.

Mine was me observing the similarity of the previous two. If there was any difference there then it was too polite/subtle for me.

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by codefined »

flamtap wrote: post #80
ritchiea wrote: post #26

Similar project: Bro pages, like man pages but short examples of common use cases instead of extensive documentation. http://bropages.org/

Thanks for the tip on that, bro! That will really come in handy.

I think tl;dr pages[0] might be more popular, on a similar topic

[0] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by j88439h84 »

hoppelhase wrote: post #9

Similar project: http://tldr.sh

> Instead of creating yet another mediocre cheat sheet repository, we are concentrating our efforts on creation of a unified mechanism to access selected existing well developed and good maintained cheat sheet repositories covering topics of our interest: programming and operating systems usage.

https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by sgt »

crottypeter wrote: post #18
sgt wrote: post #13

There's also a cheat sheet built into nearly every computer - it's called man pages.

This is true but they are often long and complicated and aren't always conducive to quick solutions or refreshing memories of a useful combination of arguments. It is good to have both.

That's true. However I often encounter co-workers refusing to read man pages, because they only want to see a cheat sheet. They end up endlessly wandering Stack overflow and google for hours instead of spending 5 minutes going through the actual manual.

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

superflyguy wrote: post #73
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #50

Instead of investing in out of band resources like this, I really wish people would just contribute improvements to the upstream documentation, which is usually more comprehensive and up-to-date than any of these resources can be.

No, I don't agree. Git has great documentation but if you want to know how to use it you either spend 15 minutes reading the relevant part of the big free book or you Google for a cheat sheet. Same goes for vim. I don't know why but some people are satisfied with documentation which, although not incorrect, only makes sense when you already have a substantial understanding of the topic at hand.

You also need to have http://ohshitgit.com handy

Re: Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

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Post by nloa »

igor_chubin wrote: post #61
hit8run wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

# Sorry, we are experiencing extremely highload now. # We are working on the problem and how to get it fixed soon. # Please come back in several hours or try some other queries Would be cool to get offline functionality...

We are working on that but it is not so easy because many queries are generated just in time. The high load problem is mitigated by the way, so you can try now if you want.

Most queries still don't work for me.
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