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Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
- ams6110 17y agoHa ha that's an old bone you dug up there, even so I recognize a few of those personalities in my present-day co-workers.
- callahad 17y agoHell, I recognize a number of them in myself.
- jrockway 17y agoI can definitely relate to "GNU". As a long-time Linux user, I remember the first time I sat down at an OS X machine and wanted to blow away a directory tree. "rm * -rf", I typed. "rm: -rf: No such file or directory", it replied. I then learned how to build and install the GNU utilities.
- habitue 17y agoI actually did pretty much the same thing. I had a solaris account at school and ended up filling half of my space on the server with gnu utilities because I didn't feel like learning Sun's "almost-right" utilities. So many of these apply to me it's a bit scary
- windsurfer 17y agoabsolutely nobody can use his customised environment, which also suits him because it means he doesn't have to answer questions about it. Ha ha ha quote for truth with me! Every time someone starts using my computer, I check to see how good my set up is doing based on the number of WTFs per minute.
- pohl 17y agoMy setup guarantees that I get at most one: "WTF...oh...Dvorak. Here, you type."
- ams6110 17y agoI find that my swapped CAPS-LOCK and CTRL keys are enough to boggle most people who try to use my machine.
- dfreidin 17y agoWe had keyboards like that in one of my classes last semester. It was really annoying, but it didn't matter too much since the software we used didn't use CTRL-C, CTRL-X, or CTRL-V anyway.
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- trapper 17y agoGod I hate that! :)
- mapleoin 17y agowhat do you need a capslock for?
- devin 17y agoBahaha! My XMonad setup is pretty crazy. On top of that, I've remapped a bunch of common keys like super, control, caps lock, and escape. I posted a cheat sheet by my monitor and people still refuse to even attempt to use the thing.
- devin 17y agoI re-read this after the fact and it comes off as being particularly arrogant/ivory tower nerd-ish. I was just trying to demonstrate to 90% of the population my system is unusable. I work in IT and everyone at work thinks it's disgusting.
- msie 17y agoLots of great stuff one level above. http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/index.html http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/index.html
- sketerpot 17y agoI dimly remember the days when a megabyte was a large amount. Those were weird times.
- olefoo 17y agoYes, much of this guide is spent being snide about how others are using scarce disk space.
- bkudria 17y agoWhat's it mean when you fit into several of these?