3 ms·
When you finally understand the full stack you inevitably end up down operating system rabbit holes. You try them out. To jump distro to distro. Linux to BSD t
by reactordev 9mo ago
When you finally understand the full stack you inevitably end up down operating system rabbit holes.
You try them out. To jump distro to distro. Linux to BSD to Linux to Amiga EMU to C64 to BSD again. It’s a short circuit of the brain. One that thinks if they just learn one more thing. In the end, learning how these things work makes us better engineers. Knowing how compilers work makes us better engineers. Knowing how our mind works makes us better engineers. If you don’t want to go down the rabbit hole, don’t. Enjoy the Vista, or National Parks, or whatever you got going on. Some of us like digging underground.
(This is just fun poking at what I’ve observed and in no way represents you, the OP, or my employer.)
- GuinansEyebrows 9mo agono, i get it - i've been to wonderland and back :) i just noticed more of these types of links today than i usually see.
- tacticalturtle 9mo agoThe site guidelines is supposed to be anything that a hacker finds interesting. This feels a bit like dumping the manual to a Toyota Camry without explanation. It’s technical, but what’s interesting? Maybe there is interesting stuff in here - but I’d love to see submissions do some kind of analysis to justify it - like an appreciation of an example of well-run user documentation, or a highlighting a clear and concise explanation of how a particular subsystem works. These posts just rocket to the top of Hacker News with no discussion.
- reactordev 9mo agoSometimes a reminder for the audience is all it takes. Every couple of years we get new blood here and every year we lose some.
- qmr 9mo agoDon't conflate engineer with programmer.
- Joel_Mckay 9mo agoProgrammers would build vehicular bridges with the same workmanship as Engineers writing code. =3