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Beware false laziness. Slamming out a 500 character command line to build something is ok for a little while, but if it ever falls out of history, you're doomed. Write the Makefile and expend less energy overall.


Why not just copy/paste that into a .sh, put #!/bin/bash at the top, check it into source control, and call it good enough for now? I guess they call that a "Dockerfile" these days :)


True laziness is building your own linux kernel because the length of your command line flags overran the limit allowed by the OS.


I, uh, don't think laziness is the right word.


I think he misspelled MAXIMUM OCD


I do that all the time.


The true lazy person starts with a cookie-cutter template whenever they start a new project. It helps when the path of least resistance is also the best practice.


...or just use a language where a cookie cutter isn't needed e.g. macros in Clojure


echo !! > build.sh




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