It’s a Unix system I know this
I had to jump in here, not to argue with the substance of the article[1] but to pull out this one quote that I just can't get behind:<p>> In popular media, a genius hacker codes some solution from scratch in the space of an hour or two, solving a problem that would otherwise doom the other protagonists. But in reality, programming is slow.<p>I mean, sure, it's not like The Movies.  But hacking is <i>fast</i>!  In no other profession can you wake up, sit down at your keyboard, be presented with a new problem no one else has addressed before, and <i>build a machine to solve it</i>.  All before dinner.  That's just magic.  Who else gets to do that?  No other engineering profession for sure.  Maybe some artists can work that fast, but they're shackled to ideas about the subjective value of their work to others whereas we can watch our creations do their magic with our own eyes.<p>It's the best job there is.<p>[1] Which is broadly the same point I just made here, but expressed as one anecdote.  I'm saying that this is something we can all share.