"tree" command on MacOSX

Re:"tree" command on MacOSX by adamt on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:25AM (#4492641)

And this is on the front page?! Apologies for the meta-discussion, but this highlights go me just how much HN has changed. This tutorial is simply download, untar, uncomment relevant (and labelled) lines of a makefile and type make.

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Re:"tree" command on MacOSX by doe88 on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:40AM (#4492666)

I think in this case it hit the front page simply because people like me didn't know this tree command and immediately found it useful. That it be trivial to install is not the main point I think.

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Re:"tree" command on MacOSX by melling on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:40AM (#4492665)

To get on the front page, you only need a few upvotes in a short period of time. I don't think anything has changed. At this moment, it only has 6 votes.

It is a nice command that people will find useful. Stuff like this should get a few votes.

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Re:"tree" command on MacOSX by true_religion on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:16AM (#4492705)

You only need to get a small amount of votes to appear on the frontpage, and its 3:14am now and 2:14am when you wrote that for HNs West Coast audience. I don't think there is much legitimate competition out there for this article.

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Re:"tree" command on MacOSX by spobo on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:33AM (#4492718)

Not only that but it's 10 times easier with Homebrew. So it's an incorrect article imo. Shouldn't make the frontpage. Especially with that title.

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