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Julian Dunn
Personal blog · juliandunn.netcareerprogramming
Julian Dunn's personal blog at juliandunn.net covers career and programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Julian Dunn's 2006 post on a root-shell bug in the Unisys Icon's QNX system, usually when QNX or the Icon comes up. The comments only cite the post and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Commentary on media, technology, and everything in between.
What Hacker News says?
When you can tell qnx to give you a root shell as an unprivileged user, ps being slow doesn't surprise me... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...
Comment linking /2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-icon/
on “The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)”Submitted Dear “Dear GitHub” as a story · 149 points
HN discussionAh the icon... the one system where you can just tell it to run a shell as root to gain superuser privileges... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...
Comment linking /2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-icon/
on “The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer”Submitted The Oncoming Train of Enterprise Container Deployments as a story · 33 points
HN discussionLooks a bit too similar to Opscode's logo for my taste: http://www.juliandunn.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/opscode...
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on “Google rebrand experiment”Submitted Google hiring hitting natural limits? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionQNX was interesting in the 90s, but then RIM took it over and did BlackBerry/car stuff with it. I wonder if they ever fixed the root hack it used to have... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...
Comment linking /2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-icon/
on “OpenQNX Source (2007)”Submitted Designing Great Command-Line User Experiences as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAh qnx... the heart of the Unisys/Burroughs Icon. They had a pretty nasty bug back in the day... https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-... It basically went like: "I am root" "Yes, you are root" :)
Comment linking /2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-icon/
on “An Architectural Overview of QNX – inside the industry's only true microkernel [pdf]”Submitted About that Amazon story, or, on burnout in tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI like nested sub-commands. If you use Python, I think click is a good tool. Things like '--list' vs '--list-software-updates' depends on what the tool does. You might have '--list-formats', '--list-authors', and more, in which case a single '--list' might not be meaningful (unless it's clearly obvious what it will list). It also depends on a lot on how the subcommands work together. You might have --define to be cl…
Comment linking /2016/08/09/designing-great-command-line-user-experiences/
on “Ask HN: Best Practices for CLI sub-command, argument, option, flag, etc. design?”Submitted HTML5: What kind of standard is this, anyway? as a story · 1 points
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