[colug-432] Computer Programmer Productivity Ratio

[Tom Hanlon]

In the spirit of this group, which has in my opinion always been about
helping others and sharing knowledge I would like to add the
following.

I do a lot of demo's in front of classes full of techies. The idea is
that I am supposed to be teaching them something, and often I am, but
there are plenty of times that they are teaching me.

I recently learned about Python notebooks and the python pandas
library. Cool stuff, but arguably not a sysadmin tool.

So sysadmin-ish linux proficiency stuff..

I had a student , a greybeard unix guru from back in the day, and he
had obliviously noticed with some frustration that I was not a master
of my cursor movement commands. He pointed it out over lunch, he had
grown tired of my arrow back, arrow back, arrow back :-)

Since that day I have tried to at least ctrl-A to go to beginning of
line, ctrl-E to go the end. I have tried the meta-key commands to go
back a "word" but I find the definition of a "word" is not greedy
enough. If I recall "back on word" with "/etc/network/dns" breaks that
path into three "words" esc-b therefore has not "stuck" in my brain
like ctrlA and CTRL-E have. What timesavers, now I get upset when my
browser or other tool ignores my ctrl-e.

--
Tom

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Warner <w at projectgamma.com> wrote:
> LOPSA in some way is driving that in the infrastructure and operations
> space. Part of the vision and some good folks are in leadership right
> now.
>
> We'll see. Personally, I have mixed feelings on professional
> organizations that are required to participate in a field. If one thing
> is for sure -- the technology field is maturing.
>
>
> Warner
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:30:14PM -0400, Rick Troth(rmt at casita.net) wrote:
>> The whole industry is one massive house of cards. We should establish a
>> number of guilds, with real power, before they slap the golden cuffs on
>> us from a brain dead direction.
>>
>>
>> http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/175415/resized_the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-meme-generator-i-don-t-always-test-my-code-but-when-i-do-i-have-someone-else-do-it-in-production-8372c2.jpg
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