The Paul Nordstrom comment is so funny to me. I joined his team in (I think) late 2000 to build the distributed system that moved Amazon from the single (massiv

The Paul Nordstrom comment is so funny to me. I joined his team in (I think) late 2000 to build the distributed system that moved Amazon from the single (massive) monolithic binary. I was using vi at the time and I could see him physically cringe when he stood over my shoulders watching me move through code. It's like he was in pain. He told me (a 23-year-old) to pick an editor and learn it well. He said vi was fine but he didn't know it well and couldn't really help me. But if I wanted to learn Emacs he would help me. So, he brought me up to speed. He sat behind me and helped me through the basics. He helped me set up a usable .emacs file. When we would sit at his desk he would tell me what he was doing with Emacs so I could see how a ninja would do things. 23 years later I still use Emacs and I am still learning new things. It's people like Paul that really make a difference for junior engineers.