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I am so deeply pissed off at people who look at some completely useful, universal, widely-used-for-decades canonical command that's at the center of tens of mil

by zzzeek 2y ago

I am so deeply pissed off at people who look at some completely useful, universal, widely-used-for-decades canonical command that's at the center of tens of millions of manual and automated deployments, picks out some esoteric details they decide are important and then proclaim, "OK when can we deprecate this debacle?" People who think you can just point "DEPRECATE" around at anything that they've decided is distasteful like a magic wand show their deep inexperience in tech as well as life overall and have no business making such proclamations.

abuani 2y ago
Conversely, it's an exceptional way of getting a highly engaging discussion. It's meant to elicit an emotional reaction and get people to read their article. I don't think they made any convincing arguments to actually deprecate the command, but highlights the complexity of a command that thousands of people issue on a daily basis without thinking about it.
- zzzeek 2y ago
  > It's meant to elicit an emotional reaction and get people to read their article I'll grant it for an article for wide readership but as a general tool of technical discourse used in places like github issues etc., highly inappropriate.
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