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points by vconnor 3 days ago | 0 comments

Same for me in 2006 as a junior Linux sysadmin:

“What does ifconfig do? What does it mean to mount a disk? What editor do you use? You’re hired.”

None of that culture fit nonsense.

Did you say vim or emacs? Might have been culture for afterall.

I forget. I used to use emacs but very superficially; when I started the job a literal greybeard UNIX admin shook his head and took me under his wing to teach me vim, which I used for a long time before switching back to emacs (and learning the elisp underpinnings of it)