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Pleased that I helped the curl developers fix its behavior when downloading a 0-byte url. Before now, it "successfully" didn't create a file at all in this situation. https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/183

They went from "It certainly works like this on purpose, it is not a mistake" to "I have merged the fix for this issue". All it took in this case was gently pointing out a better approach than the one they'd gotten stuck on.

Good bug reporting is such an art. Mine aren't always so good, or successful. Sometimes just funny is the way to go https://github.com/yamadapc/haskell-ascii-progress/issues/13

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I, too, am a progress bar conissour.

Greg Grossmeier at 2015-04-10T16:21:54Z

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“Connaisseur” is the actual word, thought I think most of the English-speaking world will settle for “connoisseur”, in what I think is a fork from old French, before it settled on the current form.

Otherwise, I completely agree with this issue. I want to see a full progress bar!

Olivier Mehani at 2015-04-12T10:27:53Z

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