On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:09:36AM -0600,
arnold(a)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