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		amelius 10 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns Ctrl-C is reserved for copy into the clipboard ... Stopping the program instead is highly counter-intuitive and will result in angry users.

moooo99 8 hours ago [–]

Have you really never cancelled a program in a terminal session?

tgv 7 hours ago | [–]

I think it was a joke. The style, clearly, almost pedantically stating an annoyance as fact, does suggest that.

kevin_thibedeau 4 minutes ago | | [–]

Definitely yanking us around.

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