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alrs
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Show HN: Simple Linux Backups
Any product that wants you to pipe some crap from curl is communicating "our product is for all of the Windows people who bought Macs in the last couple of years and are still playing pretend when it comes to administering a Linux box."
Skywing
on Dec 17, 2014
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Is this just a long way of saying that you shouldn't execute code, downloaded using curl, like this?
girvo
on Dec 17, 2014
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Yes, but in a way that makes the person saying it feel superior to others.
alrs
on Dec 17, 2014
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My beef isn't with the people who don't know they don't know, it's with vendors that encourage this. It makes the vendor look like amateur hour.
XERQ
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Heroku is one of the offenders, but you're absolutely right and I went ahead and fixed it.
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