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It boggles my mind that people use a language where x = 0 doesn't work and x=$y is a security flaw
> x = 0 doesn't work Maybe it's just me, but I love how the assignment syntax can be used just for a single command: 'MANPAGER=cat man' is a lot nicer than '(MANPAGER = cat; man)'. > and x=$y is a security flaw When is variable assignment a security flaw?
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I didn't find it clear, I also thought it was a GitHub project.
I found it clear it wasn't a GitHub project.
The title is somewhat misleading and makes it seem like this is a GitHub company initiative rather than a project just hosted on GitHub. I've not seen this title format on HN before. Could it be changed?
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
was Universities Have Formed a Company That Looks a Lot Like a Patent Troll
Linux with “memory folios”: a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel
was Linux with “memory folios”: got a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel
Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power (2016)
was Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power (2014)
The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
was The Quiet Rise of E Ink Tablets – ReMarkable 2 vs. Onyx Boox Note Air
Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling
was EU court backs national data watchdog powers in blow to Facebook, big tech
Emacs Love Tale by sdp
was Emacs Love Tale by Sdp
Future from a16z
was Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future
Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (2018)
was Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983)
was The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.
was NIH Study Offers New Evidence of Early SARS-CoV-2 Infections in U.S.
Time to sunburn
was It's surprisingly easy to get a sunburn
The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)
was The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing
Mackenzie Scott gives away another £2B
was Billionaire Mackenzie Scott gives away another £2bn
A pilot program to include spirituality in mental health care
was Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God
What we learned doing Fast Grants
was What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
was An open source note taking and to-do with synchronisation capabilities
Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
was Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1min board game
J Concepts in SuperCollider
was J Concepts in SC (SuperCollider)
Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
was Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
was An open source note taking and to-do with synchronisation capabilities
Forzak: A website that curates high-quality educational content
was Forzak: A website that curates high-quality educational content on the Internet
DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
was DraftKings: A $21B SPAC Betting It Can Hide Its Black Market Operations
We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
was Why we’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD (2012)
was Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD
Modelplace: AI Model Marketplace by OpenCV
was Modelplace, the AI Model Marketplace by OpenCV
Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
was Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions – outline (2013)
was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
How Indian Zoroastrians helped shape modern Iran
was An Indian Religious Minority Shaped Modern Iran
RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2018)
was RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes
RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)
was RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2018)
was RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes
How to Be a Stoic (2016)
was How to Be a Stoic
Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
was Are advertisers coming for your dreams?
Google Messages end-to-end encryption is now out of beta
was Google Messages end-to-end encryption no longer in beta
Stabel: A pure concatinative programming language, now with modules
was Stabel v0.2.0-alpha: A pure concatinative programming language, now with modules
Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue
was Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue
Stabel: A pure, concatenative and statically typed programming language
was Stabel: A pure concatinative programming language, now with modules
was Stabel v0.2.0-alpha: A pure concatinative programming language, now with modules
Technology Saves the World
was Andreessen: Technology Saves the World
Why bother with old technology? (2013)
was Restoration of vintage computers – Why bother with old technology?
What Happens If an Astronaut Floats Off in Space? (2013)
was What Happens If an Astronaut Floats Off in Space?
Legal expert says Tether and Binance Coin are likely picks for SEC lawsuit
was Legal expert says Tether and Binance Coin (BNB) are likely picks for SEC lawsuit
If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
was If you think Psychological Science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
Six charged in Silicon Valley insider trading ring
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> shbang'd to bash. Good. Better: #!/bin/sh Best: #!/bin/sh and also not assuming bash anyway!
I wouldn't say putting a sh shebang and assuming bash is better. With a bash shebang at least you're honest about it.
It's easily done though, I've often thought I've written something POSIX compatible and then had shellcheck say nope.
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Can you elaborate?
Not OP, but: MMC = Microsoft Management Console, the collection of "snap in" GUI config tools for all the advanced features beyond Control Panel. MMC can control remote computers, but I believe only one at a time? Unless it's something through Group Policy. Now, the APIs exist to do all this remotely (DCOM), but good luck discovering what they are! And the minimum level of program you'd need to call them would be a C…
IMHO Microsoft went all-in on the object-oriented paradigm and tuned the operating system to work with C++ ABIs and expecting administrators to use tools that use Microsoft or vendor provided DLLs.
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Is it easier? Because I would expect man free to go to the C stdlib.h definition. You’re just familiar with the former and not the latter currently.
Your assumption is wrong. Why would you double down on a bad argument? Don't you have a linux environment to type man free in before making that claim? It's just an overall bad argument. I don't see how `Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_OperatingSystem` is in any way memorable https://www.google.com/search?q=man+free
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Powershell is a pretty neat scripting language, especially if you manage Windows boxes or have lots of .net stuff around. It's not a good interactive shell environment though. The commands are way too verbose and the syntax feels clunky for keying in.
I disagree. Yes, the syntax is verbose so that you get sensical names instead of things like 'awk' and 'grep', but that isn't a big deal because a) tab complete[0], and b) user-definable aliases. [0] tab complete works on cmdlets, switches, and variables .
Same for switches and parameters. You don't have to miss `rm -rf foo/`, it's just `ri -re -fo foo/`
This feels extremely like PowerShell, from all the examples, and even cites "draws inspiration from projects like PowerShell", so "a new type of shell" feels very disingenuous unless it has additional novel properties that aren't evident just from these. There's also no support for variables yet if the page is to be believed, which means there's 0 chance of me using this for more than 5 minutes right now. (I'm not tr…
I took it to mean that it was a new type of shell from the perspective of unix/osx users who were presumably their target audience, and who are an audience who might either not know what PowerShell is about our discount it is just a "windows thing" and therefore not relevant to their life. So "new" in the sense of "new to you". You could probably point to just about any technology that claims to be new and pull it ap…
* "all these ideas have been done before, in various places" is one thing, "all these ideas have been done before in one program in the same role on all the same platforms" makes me feel like "new [to users who haven't used this other thing shipped with the OS for years on one of the platforms]" is insufficient to use without more explicit qualifiers
* I may be oblivious and missing some cool example, but the flip side to "all ideas implemented before" is "no new tricks", and when someone describes something to me as "a new type of X", I really expect at least one novel thing or composition of things to be present.
After all, I wouldn't describe TIFF as a "new type of image format" just because many people who haven't touched photo/graphics editing probably haven't encountered it, or IE4 as "a new type of web browser" (now) just because a significant fraction of internet users are not old enough to have used it when it had market share. (When it was first released, Active Desktop, for example, while a security nightmare, was indeed a new thing for almost all users.)
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Your assumption is wrong. Why would you double down on a bad argument? Don't you have a linux environment to type man free in before making that claim? It's just an overall bad argument. I don't see how `Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_OperatingSystem` is in any way memorable https://www.google.com/search?q=man+free
man free for me shows the BSD library functions manual, maybe it's different in Linux
If you have more than one installed, `man` might decide to show the first one or it may interactively ask you to pick one, depending on whether it's been configured to be "posixly correct" or not.