1. Pet Peeves to run in a shell

    One of my biggest pet peeves is any time someone tells you (the notional Internet user) to run something akin to the following:

    curl http://somesite | sh

    Few things drive me more bonkers than developers insisting on some form of the following. Worse, sometimes the program won't work at all …

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  2. Tableflip

    "Women are leaving your tech company because you don’t deserve to keep us around. […] Fuck that, we’re done. It’s not us, it’s you."

    http://web.archive.org/web/http://tableflip.club/

    (h/t http://web.archive.org/web/http://programmingisterrible.com/post/116342157158)

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  3. Childhood ownership status: grim

    While looking through some Google+ posts I came across an article where Marvel apparently told some exercise place they couldn't name their exercises after comic book characters. And then I hearkened back to a realization that I realized when the Star Wars license was acquired by Disney:

    My entire childhood …

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