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Re: Ooops.

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Post by monochromatic »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #50
monochromatic wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like reading Youtube comments--not for the faint of heart. And the jab at reddit from the HN pedestal is probably misguided... reddit used to be more like HN, and HN is becoming more like the bad parts of reddit every day. Every site tends toward Youtube level comments as time passes, and the people who don't like it eventually jump ship to a new site, and then the process repeats itself.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.) http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've been around for much longer than a year, just not with this name.

Re: Ooops.

#52

Post by brown9-2 »

shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

The change is a few weeks old, and all of the comments are about an hour old. Seems safe to say that the comments reflect more on "people linked to this change from HN/Reddit/etc" than "people that use Github"

Re: Ooops.

#54

Post by vanschelven »

shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

I suppose what you're seeing here is actually a reflection of Reddit, 4Chan & friends, i.e. I suppose this very commit has been posted in some of those places as well. I still have some hope for Github-in-general.

Re: Ooops.

#55

Post by peteretep »

vanschelven wrote: post #54
shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

I suppose what you're seeing here is actually a reflection of Reddit, 4Chan & friends, i.e. I suppose this very commit has been posted in some of those places as well. I still have some hope for Github-in-general.

Actually, almost all of the comments are since it got posted here, and as of right now this second, I don't see it's popular on Reddit...

Re: Ooops.

#56

Post by RyanMcGreal »

monochromatic wrote: post #51
RyanMcGreal wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.) http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've been around for much longer than a year, just not with this name.

In that case, you're welcome to submit comments saying that HN is turning into reddit.

Re: Ooops.

#57

Post by tripa »

jrockway wrote: post #11

I don't remember the exact details, but a few years ago there was a Perl module that did something like: my $path = something_that_can_return_undef_on_failure; `rm -rf /$path`; during the execution of its test suite. The author didn't catch it in testing because he never ran "make test" as root (who would?). But people on the Internet ran "make test" as root, with disastrous consequences.

http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34680

Re: Ooops.

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Post by AretNCarlsen »

Trufa wrote: post #36
phaedrus wrote: post #15

rm is like a knife where the handle has a sharp edge too...

A double edge knife/sword?

"Double-edged sword" has never worked for me, as a cliche. Do you often find yourself inadvertently smacking against the dull side of a single-edged sword, such that you stay away from double-edged swords for your own safety? rm is like a double-ended knife, i.e.: http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/4253/425...

(Fun fact: many knife throwers grip the blade end anyway, rendering the cliche to an even simpler "rm is like a knife".)

Re: Ooops.

#60

Post by delinka »

Never use rm's -f flag while operating as the root user. Never. Replace with -i until you are absolutely 100% certain the script you're writing works as expected. Always doubt yourself; be humble.
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