points by onei 2 days ago | 0 comments
Some years ago, I ended up on a call with a support team guy, helping him under some parts of a system I worked on. He shared his screen, started drawing diagrams. It took me a whole 10 minutes to realise it was in paint, he was just that good at using it.
Turns out paint was the thing almost every customer had installed/had access to, so he worked to the lowest common denominator and got really good at using it. I guess now he'll need to find a new tool to astonish devs with.
[–] ethbr1 1 day ago
[–] ndsipa_pomu 1 day ago
This is also why knowing the basics of "vi" is so useful on Linux/unix systems
[–] partomniscient 23 hours ago
...especially knowing how to save/exit without saving/quit, when it automatically opens up for some reason.
And at the end of the day $2 and $2000 screwdrivers are both still screwdrivers.