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