6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
6:39 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:11 PM Tyler Adams <coppero1237(a)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.