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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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fsniper ◴[25 Jun 25 07:04 UTC] No.44374380[source]▶
Microsoft loves to own general terminology like "edit" for their products. I have no idea how this flys.

SqlServer like it's the one that found sql or it's the only product that serves sql.

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1. red_admiral ◴[25 Jun 25 08:50 UTC] No.44375028[source]▶
The copy command is called "copy" which kind of makes sense? I remember once seeing a colleagues .bashrc with things like "alias copy=cp". Flags won't work the same way of course.

Sure "chcp" is a mouthful, but "del" or "erase" makes as much sense as learning that "rm" is short for remove. You pick up either convention quickly enough, except that I'm constantly using "where" when I meant "which". Maybe I should make an alias or something.

Don't get me started on powershell's look-we-can-use-proper-words-lets-see-how-long-we-can-make-this.