I heard a lot of early speculation that it was a train wreck. Since it came out I've heard nothing but good things. I'm not even that invested in it but I'm so relieved that they did a great job.

In this industry, even with the high salaries we can command, the true answer to "Are you being underpaid?" is almost always "yes."

I guess it makes sense, Bash 3.2 is super old and Apple didn't want to deal with the GPLv3 license headaches.

But dang, I've spent YEARS ricing out my dotfiles. Gonna have to recustomize my working env all over again.

Hello, oh-my-zsh!

Now try Gentoo.

@k0pernikus No, this is a mid-level dev on a tiny team (who has up until now been doing all the heavy lifting) finally getting a chance to bring on a more senior resource, and who wants to get someone who knows what they're doing and can be a good mentor to the rest of the team.

Literally the plot of an episode of Frasier

"I hope his degree will help you meet the deadline."

Okay that is legit a badass reply.

@joykill It's a dope fantasy series!

Get something to add, write an sproc.

Get something new to add, write an sproc.

Need a new dataset query on the regular? Write an sproc.

Pretty soon your job is gonna look a lot easier and more interesting.

To the brand new student 3 weeks into an Intro to Programming course, all those jokes are hilarious and new. If you've seen it before, someone else might not have. Don't deny them the journey of discovery we all had once.

Do you love a Unix terminal but don't feel like spending hours reconfiguring your tools and drivers every time an update breaks something because even though FOSS is great sometimes it's also terrible?

/---> {Mac}

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\_____________________{Ubuntu}

@gitpush LOL yeah, for my capstone I happened to have built the least efficient compiler in the entire world. But at least I can still play games on the machine while it's compiling!

Take the car back to the dealer, it's completely useless now.

I loved Encarta!