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Oh, please. If someone has the time to write kernel/driver patches and muck around customizing his gdb config, he's clearly getting paid to be a developer, not
by gnosis 17y ago
Oh, please. If someone has the time to write kernel/driver patches and muck around customizing his gdb config, he's clearly getting paid to be a developer, not a sysadmin.
Very, very few sysadmins have the luxury of spending time on this sort of thing.
- mahmud 17y agoSeriously, haven't you ever met unemployed systems programmers? I have, they're a dime a dozen, and most happily take crappy admin jobs and 10-people insurance and travel agencies. I happily waited tables and poured coffee while writing compilers for fun. Technical competence does not in any way imply employment in the field.
- pyman 17y agoMost sysadmins don't know low level languages such as C/C++. I know a few kernel developers myself, and they are all C hackers. If you write Linux kernel patches, then you are a programmer that a) works for a company that builds hardware b) needs a driver that doesn't exist. Lets get this straight. Adding data to an Excel spreadsheet using VBScript doesn't make you an Office developer, if you know what I mean :)