I post this here in attempt to fuel discussion around this structure before I begin using it as a template for open sourcing many actual packages in the next few weeks.

you may want to fix the spelling, "and there reply" -> "and their reply" "I’ve decided" -> "I decided"

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They%27re sorry, don't know of a good reference for the second one and I don't believe I'd explain it well.

Yeah, sorry about that ^_^ Fixed.

related: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart

Seems to lack some form of 'package control'. I'd suggest checking the following before implementing tough: https://sublime.wbond.net/ http://batsov.com/articles/2012/02/19/package-management-in-...

Simple script to call it from command line. Uses bash, works from other shells as long as its installed. Require curl to be installed.

https://gist.github.com/ekyo/6389069

Posted it for zsh, should be easy to make it work for other shells:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6297957

For those like me who want to call it from their zsh, add the following to your .zshrc:

explain(){ curl -s $(echo "http://explainshell.com/explain/$1?args=${@:2}" | sed -e 's/ /+/g') | sed -n '/<pre/,/<\/pre>/p' | sed -s 's/<[^>]>//g' | sed -e 's/^ //g;s/ *$//g' | grep '.' | cat }

and call it, for example like: explain git status -s

Ha, cute! I'll add an API soon enough to return some JSON, so command line tools could wrap it more conveniently.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but this doesn't work for me:

% explain git status -s

explain:1: no such file or directory: http://explainshell.com/explain/git?args=status

curl: no URL specified!

sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command

It's probably hn's formatting. I just tried copy/pasting from my post and I get the same error.

Try copying it from there: https://gist.github.com/ekyo/6383547

I can't edit my previous post anymore, if someone can maybe add something like "EDIT: copy/paste friendly version https://gist.github.com/ekyo/6383547" or better, fix the formatting so it works...

Awesome, thanks for that.

I almost never use my browser full screen, often it's snapped with 50% width. In opera chrome and firefox, the width is a tad too big for that. It'd be nice if it was more fluid.

Well that improvement wouldn't be that useful for me tough, I'm going to integrate your website in zsh and emacs if someone doesn't do it before me.

Also, if you can make it so that the input area is still there when showing results, it saves a frequent 'back' in the case someone wants to check multiple commands.

Will do, thanks!

I taught myself and I believe it works for me.

My 2 attempts at going to university ended up being noise with little signal and I dropped out after building up some depression due to that. I had the similar issues with prior schooling and turns out building products with others seems to be the most effective way to learn for me.

It may very well not be the case for everyone so universities have their place, but there were many other flaws in the small subset I've experienced that should be fixed before I consider recommending them.

I also still have friends from that university, and most of them had to learn to self teach as soon as they got out.

So I think... in Computer Science, some people going to universities should self teach instead or find a better university. Showing childrens to teach themselves at an early age and having a school system supporting it could also be a good improvement for the future.

In your quote, the 'all' is probably an over-statement. But more people could give it a try.

I'll experiment with this a bit to see for myself but I would really appreciate a list of downsides of using this over mongo; if anything else than there may be less people supporting it.

The simplest list is this: no full text search, geo indexes, or background indexing yet.

Is there a feature roadmap somewhere detailing what order these and other features will be added (actual schedule is great too!)?

We're working on that, and we are hoping to base it on feedback, so if there's something you want, definitely let us know.

+1 on a roadmap. Excited to try this out!