Yeah....we interviewed (and hired) a candidate that said one of his special skills is knowing the right keywords to feed into Google. And, he said many times he'd get what he was looking for by clicking "I'm feeling lucky".
Too bad that after we hired him, he said that being a system administrator is not what he wants to do career-wise. Used to talk about the days before the bubble burst where he made more than his parents playing video games all day. So, he wasn't going to learn any more system administration in his job anymore. He did write some pretty nice scripts....except that he was supposed to do them in Perl, and he did them in Python. (which as far as he was concerned was the only programming language there is) But, nobody else knew python...and its not part of a standard Solaris install. He was also part of the group, that didn't like vi...had to have vim on every box they touched (and have it replace vi.) He eventually left for a Python programming job, and then id Software.... Now I have the task of updating those Python scripts. I guess I have a real aversion for languages where spacing is too important.... thought FORTRAN 66 was over with. ----- Original Message ----- > On May 2, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > > 50 monkeys to infinity can produce the complete works of William > > Shakespeare. > > We used to say that. > But thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library
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