First you get your cocky ass kicked by some Windows fanboi.
Then you go up onto the mountain to train with a bearded Unix guru. He forces you through a brutal training regimen with obscure CLI utilities, each with its own brain-flayingly inconsistent command line switches.
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
By the time you come down the mountain, you're in your 30's, living with your parents, grossly overweight, and have less of a social life than the kitten on the cover of the book. Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
Probably. Kids these days just won't believe you when you tell them that regular expressions used to be restricted to sequence, alternation and Kleene star.
And I was sitting here with 15 moderator points, thinking "should I throw him a bone for offering the obligatory XKCD, but in an incomplete fashion", or "should I reward you for giving the link and completing the joke", or even "should I mod you down for being a karma whore". In the end I decided to let my mod points vanish into oblivion due to my indecisiveness over my quandry. I feel better now.
You then go back up the mountain and are initiated into the Unixen, a secretive order renowned throughout the ages as the etymological root of the word "eunuchs" because they supposedly cut off initiate's penises and made them live in their parents' basements. These tales are, of course, lies spread by the Unixen's arch-foes, the Knights MCSE (pronouced "mucousey"), who desire to control all with DRM. In truth the Unixen only desire peace and freedom throughout the lands, that all men might one day arrive
Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
First you get your cocky ass kicked by some Windows fanboi.
Then you go up onto the mountain to train with a bearded Unix guru. He forces you through a brutal training regimen with obscure CLI utilities, each with its own brain-flayingly inconsistent command line switches.
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
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I forgot to add: in a bamboo grove.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
By the time you come down the mountain, you're in your 30's, living with your parents, grossly overweight, and have less of a social life than the kitten on the cover of the book. Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
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Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
$34.95 or $43.75 with the PDF.
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What?
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$34.95 or $43.75 with the PDF.
Or, you can go to isohunt.com
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Mastering the wuxi finger grep: Priceless.
There is no charge for awesomeness...
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Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
Everybody stand back! I know regular expressions.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Insightful)
HAHAHA! Your regular expressions are very good. But can you handle my LALR(1) grammar!
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Probably. Kids these days just won't believe you when you tell them that regular expressions used to be restricted to sequence, alternation and Kleene star.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
A link to xkcd [xkcd.com] would have been most appropriate there, and would have gained you a +5 funny.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
And I was sitting here with 15 moderator points, thinking "should I throw him a bone for offering the obligatory XKCD, but in an incomplete fashion", or "should I reward you for giving the link and completing the joke", or even "should I mod you down for being a karma whore". In the end I decided to let my mod points vanish into oblivion due to my indecisiveness over my quandry. I feel better now.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Insightful)
Strangely, your post reads like an xkcd strip.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not an inside joke if you explain it to everyone. Cool doesn't need +5 Funny.
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Isn't that redundant?
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You then go back up the mountain and are initiated into the Unixen, a secretive order renowned throughout the ages as the etymological root of the word "eunuchs" because they supposedly cut off initiate's penises and made them live in their parents' basements. These tales are, of course, lies spread by the Unixen's arch-foes, the Knights MCSE (pronouced "mucousey"), who desire to control all with DRM. In truth the Unixen only desire peace and freedom throughout the lands, that all men might one day arrive
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