From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 10:36:53 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Good ol' ed (Was *ROFF) In-Reply-To: <201805151534.w4FFYihS007916@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <01e701d3ec45$e7211580$b5634080$@ronnatalie.com> <201805151417.w4FEHcIF009897@freefriends.org> <20180515143752.GA7115@mcvoy.com> <201805151509.w4FF9axM016451@freefriends.org> <20180515151810.GE7879@mcvoy.com> <201805151534.w4FFYihS007916@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:09:36AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: > > > > In fairness to them, I don't know how you learn the good stuff > outside > > > > of a terminal room. I learned so much by watching the screen change > > > > and going "WTF? How did you do that?" > > > > > > > > There is only so much you can stuff into a manual. > > > > > > Indeed. But this can be taught; however, it seems that many of the > > > younger generation aren't interested in learning it. As Clem noted, > > > losing the terminal room has had a negative impact on learning. > > > > > > (Boy, are we just a bunch of old farts, or what ... :-) > > > > I'm not old, oh, wait. And get off my lawn! :) > > I have fond memories of the "public terminal" room that was somewhere > on the 4th or 5th floor of building 2 at Murray Hill. Never knew who > you'd run into there. > Even at conferences, the hacking lounges provide only the barest flavor of what's going on here. Though I still see the cool thing I want to use, it's often painful to glance over people's shoulders... Some code can't be unseen :) Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: