Comment by BeetleB | Hacker News Reader

Comment by BeetleB | Hacker News Reader

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As much as I like the command line, I couldn't help noticing from the first 10 or so entries[1] that the "stop" text consists of one of:

1. Drag and Drop

2. Right clicking

3. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V

So these 3-5 things do everything in the list in a GUI, and instead the author wants us to learn 35 different command/syntax combinations?

As an aside, I'd like to write an article saying "You Don't Need Github To Write an Article". If you insist on using Github for that purpose, at least do it properly with a static site generator.

[1] Did not bother with the rest.

It's pretty damning too when an operation like "merging directories" comes with this warning:

   $ rsync -a /images/ /images2/ # note: may over-write files with the same name, so be careful!

This is something that any GUI file manager worth its salt will warn you about.

I thought the page was a joke, showing how bad CLIs are.

You think he's being serious?

Agreed. But flashy title aside, it’s probably a nice page to send to someone looking to get started in the terminal.

> do it properly with a static site generator.

You don't even need a static site generator. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll behind the scenes, so it converts your markdown to HTML for you. You can even select from a list of themes from the GitHub UI.

Still, the author might not know this.

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