Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/academic.html

by 321abc • 17 years ago

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ams61102• 17 years ago

Ha 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• 17 years ago

Hell, I recognize a number of them in myself.

jrockway• 17 years ago

I 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.

windsurfer• 17 years ago

absolutely 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• 17 years ago

My setup guarantees that I get at most one:

"WTF...oh...Dvorak. Here, you type."

ams61102• 17 years ago

I find that my swapped CAPS-LOCK and CTRL keys are enough to boggle most people who try to use my machine.

dfreidin• 17 years ago

We 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.

trapper• 17 years ago

God I hate that! :)

mapleoin• 17 years ago

what do you need a capslock for?

devin2• 17 years ago

Bahaha!

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.

devin2• 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

Lots of great stuff one level above.

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/index.html

sketerpot• 17 years ago

I dimly remember the days when a megabyte was a large amount. Those were weird times.

olefoo• 17 years ago

Yes, much of this guide is spent being snide about how others are using scarce disk space.

bkudria• 17 years ago

What's it mean when you fit into several of these?

Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide

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