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You learn these things when you are a junior X from someone who is a senior X who learned it the exact same way. I bet you can trace these little nuggets all t
by aminuit 18y ago
You learn these things when you are a junior X from someone who is a senior X who learned it the exact same way. I bet you can trace these little nuggets all the way back to some junior sysadmin who was looking over Ken Thompson's shoulder at Bell Labs in the early 70s. Other examples include lsof, vmstat, netstat -p, and doing anything useful in a Makefile.
- ankhmoop 18y agoAny defined interface is -- by definition -- documented, and any undefined interface (and thus undocumented) can not be relied upon. Empiric lore is ultimately detrimental to genuine understanding.