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I had this course. I can’t remember what they called it. But a very enthusiastic guy in shorts taught us how to use Linux, the command line, git, etc.

noosphr 1y ago
I went through this course in the astronomy department of all places. This quote is very relevant for my career progression: >Within a month of his arrival, Randy solved some trivial computer problems for one of the other grad students. A week later, the chairman of the astronomy department called him over and said, “So, you’re the UNIX guru.” >At the time, Randy was still stupid enough to be flattered by this attention, when he should have recognized them as bone-chilling words. Three years later, he left the Astronomy Department without a degree, and with nothing to show for his labors except six hundred dollars in his bank account and a staggeringly comprehensive knowledge of UNIX.
- BubbleRings 1y ago
  Ha. Reading the book again now. My all time favorite. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon A wonderful historical fiction novel with two main timelines, WW2 and the 1990’s, that includes the invention of the first computers, cool as heck battle scenes, adventure love sex music math statistics horror Churchill Turing Goering and wow the wrecked German submarine U553 crashing up and down on an exposed coral reef in the North Atlantic waves. How do you benefit from reading someone’s mail without letting them know you are reading their mail?
  - FredPret 1y ago
    Agreed. If you love it, also read the Baroque Cycle, REAMDE, and Fall. Cryptonomicon is the best but it all fits together.
- lisbbb 1y ago
  In the 90s, pretty much all the Math, Physics, EE, etc guys and gals all become software developers or generally worked in IT. There were no jobs in those other areas. Well, Intel was hiring CEs for awhile there. Now there are no dev jobs, either.
sn9 1y ago
I had a systems programming course that was (I would later realize) basically Kernighan and Pike's Unix Programming Environment followed by Oreilly's Learning Perl.

noosphr 1y ago

I went through this course in the astronomy department of all places. This quote is very relevant for my career progression: >Within a month of his arrival, Randy solved some trivial computer problems for one of the other grad students. A week later, the chairman of the astronomy department called him over and said, “So, you’re the UNIX guru.” >At the time, Randy was still stupid enough to be flattered by this attention, when he should have recognized them as bone-chilling words. Three years later, he left the Astronomy Department without a degree, and with nothing to show for his labors except six hundred dollars in his bank account and a staggeringly comprehensive knowledge of UNIX.

BubbleRings 1y ago
Ha. Reading the book again now. My all time favorite. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon A wonderful historical fiction novel with two main timelines, WW2 and the 1990’s, that includes the invention of the first computers, cool as heck battle scenes, adventure love sex music math statistics horror Churchill Turing Goering and wow the wrecked German submarine U553 crashing up and down on an exposed coral reef in the North Atlantic waves. How do you benefit from reading someone’s mail without letting them know you are reading their mail?
- FredPret 1y ago
  Agreed. If you love it, also read the Baroque Cycle, REAMDE, and Fall. Cryptonomicon is the best but it all fits together.
lisbbb 1y ago
In the 90s, pretty much all the Math, Physics, EE, etc guys and gals all become software developers or generally worked in IT. There were no jobs in those other areas. Well, Intel was hiring CEs for awhile there. Now there are no dev jobs, either.

sn9 1y ago

I had a systems programming course that was (I would later realize) basically Kernighan and Pike's Unix Programming Environment followed by Oreilly's Learning Perl.