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As promised: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149364

jacktasia• 16 years ago

I agree that it sucks when you make something that you think is cool and no one seems to care (or notice) even when you actively try to share it. That said, it happens all the time...and it makes it that much sweeter when people actually do care/notice.

mbrubeck• 16 years ago

Cool project. If I'd seen it, I'd have clicked the link based on username recognition - but the title didn't give me much to expect. Something just slightly more descriptive would have piqued my interest more ("predict time-to-completion of shell commands based on their output"). Also, I find that known community members get more clicks by making it clear it's their own project ("Tell HN" or "My script to..."). I didn't recognize your domain name in this case.

RiderOfGiraffes2• 16 years ago

Scapegoat comment ... if you upvote the submission and don't want me to get the karma, feel free to downvote this comment to balance it out.

macemoneta• 16 years ago

I saw the item but didn't follow the link, because the description didn't sound interesting. If the description were more clear, I probably would have followed it.

For example: "A script to estimate the time at which a process will complete".

I skim through several thousand RSS/ATOM feed entries each day; unless the meaning is clear and interesting to me, I usually don't waste time trying to decode it.

wglb• 16 years ago

While it is clear what the value of this is, I needs such estimates so rarely that I just do them mentally or just go off and do something else.

My long-running things are either known in length or short enough to flip to hacker news to read a couple of items.

csmeder• 16 years ago

many people don't know what an end time is maybe start with an interesting paragraph describing end times and why they matter. I dunno?

johnswamps• 16 years ago

A similar program is http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/ I swear I used to use a different one a few years back, but can't remember what it's called.

vsync• 16 years ago

I hadn't seen it before. The description in the original submission should have been clearer; also: don't apologize and predict sad things in your submission.

thepsi• 16 years ago

The RSS feed just shows the title; my reaction was along the lines of "endtimes... of what? next!". Didn't get as far as the description.

Having taken a look now, sounds handy!

arantius• 16 years ago

I use "pv" (pipe viewer) for this. So the example would be:

pv tarball.tar | tar xf -

And the output is great.

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