[Cialug] SysAdmin FYI

[Crouse]

"And young people might say exactly to opposite about you: some entitled
old dude who still thinks emacs vs. vim is relevant" ... WTH... vi finally
won right ?

Old dude.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not so much about age as how this guy acts... or at least how he
> writes.
>
> Except the difference you’re citing are directly correlated with age — as
> you note, the language in question came into existence as part of a certain
> computer-related culture that you are slightly too old to be a part of.
> These people, simply be being alive at the right time and interested in
> computer security, would have been widely exposed to script-kiddie (which
> is itself a dismissive, agist description of behavior not particularly
> related to age), and they may even have been script-kiddies when they were
> younger. Why does that mean they are unqualified today?
>
> Have you never heard your grandmother (or a similarly aged person) lament
> that people today don’t write by hand, or that they use language in ways
> she finds unbecoming? Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing here — applying
> cultural judgements across cultures?
>
>         Zach
>
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