From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:39:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtAEHedbBd44rXT+UdaYBQty9V=8hrfrEvL43NTixbc6Sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEuQd1AWs=jpHYk3nGpKsBV=qF4DZVXvXzynSeDK5S-r-hfryw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:11 PM Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fun read and it's totally wild that people's emotional comfort with *text*
> drives a lot of their love or hate of unix.
>
> http://theody.net/elements.html
>
> Tyler
>
I would concur with the adaptation that the modern predictor of unix
aptitude is attention span (which is lessened for a number of societal
changes). It takes a fair amount of delayed gratification to get
comfortable with unix. I was able to intuitively use Mac OS Classic at age
3, and I can see modern youth have the same young intuition for touch
devices. But unix takes a bit more discipline and only rewards those who
persevere. I suspect that’s why modern tech employers like it. They’ve
learned to pick up the cues for people that will perform well in roles that
require perseverance and holding a lot of mental context.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 22:10 Tyler Adams
2020-11-06 0:39 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
2020-11-06 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 5:04 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 5:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-11-06 6:34 ` Rob Pike
2020-11-06 13:20 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-06 15:40 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:46 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 22:54 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 23:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-11-06 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-06 23:41 ` Warren Toomey
2020-11-06 6:37 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 15:06 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 15:18 ` Bakul Shah
2020-11-06 15:19 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 16:46 ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:51 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:09 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 22:44 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:12 ` Andy Kosela
2020-11-06 22:23 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-07 0:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-08 23:23 ` George Michaelson
2020-11-06 17:05 ` Paul Winalski
2020-11-06 17:07 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 17:25 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-06 17:13 ` Adam Thornton
2020-11-06 17:26 ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:24 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
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