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Wow. I bet you're really fun at parties.
by Boxxed 9y ago
Wow. I bet you're really fun at parties.
- donatj 9y agoParties, yes. I’m a riot, lampshade on the head and what not. Scripting however I take very seriously.
- cyberpunk0 9y agoYou should take it less seriously. Life isn't that serious
- strictnein 9y agoScripting the execution of man?
- popcorncolonel 9y agoWow, great comeback
- rootlocus 9y agoBeing "beyond irritated" by a harmless easter egg in a developer facing tool which hasn't even been found in 6 years, is some pretty serious pedantry. Maybe the kind of pedantry you see in people who work with safety related embedded software like aircrafts or automobile software. Unless you're someone who write that kind of embedded software, and depends on the stderr output of man to control some critical parts of that system (which would be insane) your level of pedantry is unwarranted. Man is an UI for people. Complaining about its output is like complaining about the GUI of a PDF reader. Sure, you could take snapshots of it, parse it in your system, and be slightly annoyed once by a small easter egg, but it would be kind of stupid because that's not what it was build for.
- uolo 9y agoI don't think it is that irritating as such. But it's the principle. It much easier to convince people that they should be prudent than at which moments jokes are appropriate. I recently found out that some mplayer developer thought it was funny to include "Core dumped ;)" as the last line when you dump a stream. I'm sure that it was funny to them, but less so when you are just trying to figure out if it works after battling deceptive copyright protection, and learning all the settings of different tools, for a couple of hours. Now try and convince the developers that this, or other jokes, isn't funny. > Man is an UI for people. Even the man page includes a couple of examples where it isn't.