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Re: [PLUG] OT (but not really): Tough Interview questions
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:22 -0500
> From: Darren Nickerson <darren.nickerson@ifax.com>
>
> *chuckle* decaf?
Well, that's one of the sad parts...I don't drink coffee and have only 1
soda per day at lunch. (I know, not enough Dew/Jolt so you have to take
away my geek card...)
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:01:45 -0500
> From: Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>
>
> I've generally heard them referred to as "Desert Island Discs"[1],
> which is perhaps a bit harder to misparse. :)
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:05:02 -0500
> From: jeff <jeffv@op.net>
>
> And I thought *I* didn't get out a lot, JP :)
>
> Desert Island Disc:
> If you were stuck on an island and could get past the logical leap
> that you could play only one album, what would it be?
Yeah, see, I'd have *gotten* it if you'd said *that*...
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:50:01 -0500
> From: Eric <eric@lucii.org>
>
> Hey JP, obviously you're not old enough...
No, I am old enough to have bought vinyl albums. I'm just having an
especially dense day it seems.
> Maybe that's why I like the command line: it's so... old.
I love the command line, I spend a lot of my day at it. When I first
understood what autoexec.bat did, in the early 80's, I couldn't get over
how cool it was (which partly explains how I ended up co-writing the
_bash Cookbook_ :).
Speaking of being old and loving the CLI, Neal Stephenson's short
novella (if that's not redundant) "In the Beginning was the Command
Line" will have you rolling on the floor:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html (zip)
http://adam.shand.net/iki/library/in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line/
Later,
JP
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