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Hi all, I incorrectly awarded digimanus the winner by not paying enough attention to his answer - the answer is fearsome and Griff got it - so apologies to everyone for the confusion - OG you are up tomorrow
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk.
Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else.
(Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs?  )
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IIRC Aho and Weinberg were the other two.
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And you would be correct - a very useful tool AWK
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And I was just using it myself - gawk anyway, both in Cygwin and in Gow (Home · bmatzelle/gow Wiki · GitHub) since I was on Windows. I was totaling up some fields in some CSV's.
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Indeed, my everyday tool (gawk to be precise).
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I agree with you completely. I think you have to know at least alittle bit of history so you can fully understand how things got to be the way they are now. And ignoring who Mr. Ritchie was is like calling you acomic book fan but ignore who Superman is, Dennis Ritchie was and still is on of the, if not THE mos influential oerson, programer, developer, architecht in the history of Computer Science.
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always painful when people start telling stories and themselves forget the ending or worse, already lost half way through
teacher: "blah blah story blah [pause] ...well anyway that doesn't matter,my point is ..."
class thought: 'well sure! thanks for wasting my time, are we going to learn something today?.'
(although less bad if someone else is paying for you to take the course)
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lopatir wrote: (although less bad if someone else is paying for you to take the course)
Free. Well, free to me, anyway. I'm sure the company paid someone, somewhere, sometime. 
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What's important is that he knows the important things to teach anyone learning Linux and he probably just wanted to get onto them ASAP....how to get a Windows VM running on it so you can actually be productive.
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a Linux course, is that a course that you compile yourself ? 
I'd rather be phishing!
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You grade yourself.
Then you send the results to Linus Torvalds, who then immediately proceeds to tear you a new one.
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My main rule says that any technology that is still associated with some person, is immature.
(This doesn't include when the technology, or elements of it, is named after someone; naming doesn't count as associating the technology as such with the person as such.)
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Is cremation my last hope for a smoking hot body?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just got fired from my job because I kept asking my customers whether they would prefer “Smoking” or “Non-smoking”.
Apparently the correct terms are “Cremation” and “Burial”... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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tough job anyway
at the end of the day when the boss asks, "have you done all your work for the day?"
... how to prove it when you burned all the evidence?
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If there is none left then you have succeeded.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Truly the burning question of the day, although it will not urn you many compliments. Let me know ash soon as you have a followup.
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And the Seven Deadly Sins are your best chance for a smoking hot soul. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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 I better never die!
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Funny you should mention it.
I've actually got plans of becoming the first person in the world to live forever. So far, everything is going according to plan!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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That was funny. You should do morgue like this!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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I found an Origami porn channel today.
But it was paper view only!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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I'll fold you a hat. Bye!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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