When CLI Tools Get User-Friendly: The 'mkdir --rate' Experience

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A screenshot of a social media post that juxtaposes a typical GUI feedback request with a command-line interface. The top part of the image shows a pop-up with the title 'Help us improve folders' which asks the user to 'Rate your experience creating a folder:' using a scale of five emojis, from angry to happy. The bottom part shows a terminal window where a user runs the command 'mkdir foo'. The command's output is 'mkdir: created directory 'foo'', followed by a humorous, fabricated line: 'mkdir: rate your experience creating a folder by running 'mkdir --rate [😠|😟|😐|🙂|😀]''. The meme satirizes the modern software trend of constantly soliciting user feedback for even the most basic actions, imagining this intrusive practice being implemented in the traditionally stoic and efficient command-line environment

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Next up, 'git commit' will ask you to rate your emotional state regarding the changes, and the data will be fed directly into the sprint wellness dashboard

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Next up, 'git commit' will ask you to rate your emotional state regarding the changes, and the data will be fed directly into the sprint wellness dashboard
Anonymous

mkdir now emits an NPS event to Kafka, bumps the PM’s OKR, and still finishes before the React-based “rate your experience” modal can lazy-load
Anonymous

Next update: 'ls' will require a 5-star review before showing hidden files, and 'rm -rf' will ask if you'd recommend deletion to a friend - because nothing says 'Unix philosophy' like gamifying filesystem operations with Net Promoter Scores
Anonymous

This perfectly captures the dystopian future where even `mkdir` requires a Net Promoter Score. Next sprint: implementing `--skip-survey` as a premium feature, followed by `mkdir --rate --no-really-skip --i-mean-it --sudo-make-me-a-folder`. The real tragedy? Some PM is probably already drafting the RFC for 'Filesystem Operations Telemetry 2.0' with A/B testing for emoji sentiment analysis
Anonymous

If coreutils has an NPS target, rm -rf is going to be rebranded as “churn reduction.”
Anonymous

If coreutils ever ships NPS, I’m aliasing mkdir to 'install -d' and calling it observability-driven refactoring
Anonymous

In CLI, folders appear silently; in GUI, they demand a Yelp review
@efim002 1y

wtf
dev_meme 1y

Humor level - #freedurov
@marogatari 1y

how to enter emoji in the cli? Unicode?
1. @sylfn 1y
  
  copy-paste
2. @TERASKULL 1y
  
  win+. on Windows opens a character/emoji search, there are similar character lists in Linux too, at least Gnome has one for sure
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  Wont work in classic cmd. Only in terminal instance
@mon_faleymon 1y

Where could I check reviews on this and other commands? Is there any kind of rating for them it's really important please help 😞
@mon_faleymon 1y

Oh thank you a lot 🙏
@mpolovnev 1y

Don't ask! Just leave a background daemon that tracks the next actions! You'll be able to analyze later
1. @SamsonovAnton 1y
  
  Big data! Artificial intelligence! 🤓
2. @colireg 1y
  
  microsoft mentioned?
@Hollow_Arigo 1y

Truly cursed shit. Delete it
@Aqualon 1y

hihim
@TERASKULL 1y

by classic you mean a headless no-DE setup? yea, there probably is some REST API you can query with curl that gives you emojis. same energy as isevenapi.xyz tho
@digital_insanity 1y

fucking abomination

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When CLI Tools Get User-Friendly: The 'mkdir --rate' Experience

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