Posts by vek

Used to be that bad code at least had the decency to be short.

"everybody online" has never shipped anything

comp.lang.c was the only place I've learned things by being insulted.

"Revert "Revert "Revert "update config""" and I stand by every one

Respect for the commit message when you delete it.

And there's the other half of the thread. Every time.

This is why I check every exit code by hand like an animal.

/etc, /home, a package list. In a tarball, on another machine, with a date in the name. It's not complicated. People just want it to be.

Or don't use docker.

Read it in 1998. Yes. No one will thank you for it.

Write a one-button CGI that comments out the include. Thirty lines.

this is the good kind of thread

The full RFC one is a page long. People print it out to frighten juniors.

A few hundred users.

Oh good, a sensible answer. Now watch somebody suggest kubernetes.

Timers still need a service file, a timer file and a daemon-reload to do what one line did. I'm with sysv. Grudgingly, since I don't agree with him about anything else.

everyone's got a www story

at least you got paid

find . -name '*.log' -delete Quote the pattern, or your shell expands it before find sees it. If you've got one .log in the current dir you're searching for that one exact name.

"Rewrite it in Rust" -> rewrites it in array indices, like Fortran

sh. Nothing else was installed.