Live data from Hacker News

Curl Wttr.in

github.com

11–20 of 128 posts

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#11
post #10

A good opportunity to remind everyone that we finally inboxed curl into Windows 10, so this works (with color output) from a stock Windows command prompt. Better late than never, I hope.

Can you explain more about why you thought this was a good opportunity to interject an advertisement for your product?

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#12
post #10

A good opportunity to remind everyone that we finally inboxed curl into Windows 10, so this works (with color output) from a stock Windows command prompt. Better late than never, I hope.

Can you explain more about why you thought this was a good opportunity to interject an advertisement for your product?

Isn't Windows 10 free?

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#13
post #10

A good opportunity to remind everyone that we finally inboxed curl into Windows 10, so this works (with color output) from a stock Windows command prompt. Better late than never, I hope.

Glad to hear that, though I wasn't aware color output now works on windows command. I was under the impression the ansi.sys driver or similar was still necessary for color support.

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#14
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain more about why you thought this was a good opportunity to interject an advertisement for your product?

Isn't Windows 10 free?

No, it's priced into most computers. Retail costs over $100 last I checked (and more for pro), though OEMs pay cheaper prices for that sort of volume. There are also sketchy keys available for ~$20.

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#16
post #10

A good opportunity to remind everyone that we finally inboxed curl into Windows 10, so this works (with color output) from a stock Windows command prompt. Better late than never, I hope.

No need for that. You can do this:

     (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri wttr.in).content
from Powershell. Why not use the happy path?

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#17
post #10

A good opportunity to remind everyone that we finally inboxed curl into Windows 10, so this works (with color output) from a stock Windows command prompt. Better late than never, I hope.

Can you explain more about why you thought this was a good opportunity to interject an advertisement for your product?

Windows is fairly transcendent in our culture, like it or not. It’s not Joe’s-10-person-company-not-relevant-to-99%-of-readers.

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain more about why you thought this was a good opportunity to interject an advertisement for your product?

Windows is fairly transcendent in our culture, like it or not. It’s not Joe’s-10-person-company-not-relevant-to-99%-of-readers.

I don't think we need to hear about new Windows features on HN posts because they both mention cURL. GP is just taking the chance to advertise.

It's like if they commented on the Mac OS X announcements saying "Look, Windows can count to 10 too!"

Off topic, against the rules, flag it.

Re: Curl Wttr.in

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows is fairly transcendent in our culture, like it or not. It’s not Joe’s-10-person-company-not-relevant-to-99%-of-readers.

I don't think we need to hear about new Windows features on HN posts because they both mention cURL. GP is just taking the chance to advertise. It's like if they commented on the Mac OS X announcements saying "Look, Windows can count to 10 too!" Off topic, against the rules, flag it.

I’m an open source advocate, but still appreciate that Windows is the most used PC operating system on the planet. The fact that you can use the tool ITA as it’s presented on stock Windows (when this is a recently added feature) is relevant info that’s useful to readers and I highly doubt parent intended it in any way to be an ad.

Not to put words in his mouth, but he’s probably just proud to have some influence on making Windows users’ lives a little easier and it would be an odd thing for him to expect people familiar with curl to suddenly become Windows partisans just because they’re now prepacking it (or generally for any Microsoft engineer to have much personal interest in convincing end users to adopt Windows personally).

Post reply on HN