Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by hackerc on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:51PM (#19905287)

Does an offline copy of this exist? Do you think it will go down when the term probably ends soon?

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by mwilliamson on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:51AM (#19910076)

I would expect the material stay up: at the moment, everything back to 1998/1999 is still accessible:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/material.html

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by samwyse on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:26PM (#19905929)

Do you know about curl/wget? Each one does pretty much the same thing as the other, but you can start a religious war by suggesting that one is preferable.

Anyway, either of them will let you mirror a website so you never have to worry about it going down.

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by bigiain on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:26PM (#19906279)

And, since every Unix command line tool inevitably gets mined and turned into a web service, you could always submit those urls to archive.org instead of or as well as curl-ing/wget-ing them.

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by voltagex_ on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:19AM (#19907468)

https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site if you're super serious. Also archive.org will probably accept those output warcs.

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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by toomuchtodo on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:23PM (#19964760)

Content mentioned above has been archived.

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