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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Forgot

    Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape

    q!

    Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen



  • You can pass -c to not create a file, but it does go against the philosophy that it creates them by default instead of that being an option

    EDIT: Looking closer into the code, it would appear to maybe be an efficiency thing based on underlying system calls

    Without that check, touch just opens a file for writing, with no other filesystem check, and closes it

    With that check, touch first checks if the file exists, and then if so opens the file for writing







  • I would imagine it’s very common. “Serial entrepreneurs”, angel investors and the like are often like sharks but their blood is maximum ROI with minimum turnaround time, and I believe they do their best to get people into leadership positions who’s greatest goal is to exit as early as possible based on some minimum ROI, whether that exit be by acquisition or IPO. Especially if the original startup founder is more focused on the product. “Hey man, you focus on the code, let me and Dave handle the business side of things, we’ll keep the sharks off your back” when usually they themselves, are in fact the sharks


  • Generally that’s true but there are outliers. Valve for example continues to rake it in while not turning immensely shitty. (Not saying they aren’t without issue, but they are vastly better than many others in the industry)

    Similarly, the route that Hello Games took. They started off with an unfinished product rushed to market, but took the money made and invested back into NMS, continuing to release big free expansions to this day.

    I think a big part is “don’t go public.” As soon as you go public, your dedication is no longer to your product / your customers, but to quarterly growth / gains for shareholders