Posted by _spaceatom 11/2/2025
This phrase immediately turned the rest of my hair gray. I'm old enough to still think of Git as the "new" version control system, having survived CVS and Subversion before it.
At my mid 90s Unix shop, everyone had to use someone’s script which in turn called sccs. I don’t recall what it did, but I remember being annoyed that someone’s attempt to save keystrokes meant I had to debug alpha-quality script code before the sccs man page was relevant.
Adding -x to the shebang line was the only way to figure out what was really going on.
I know a lot of professional, highly paid SWEs and DevOps people who never went to college or had any formal CS or math education beyond high school math. I have a friend who figured out complexity analysis by himself on the job trying to fix up some shitty legacy code. Guy never got past Algebra in school.
(If you're about to ask how they can get jobs while new grads can't - by being able to work on really fucking terrible legacy code and live in flyover states away from big cities.)
"Is sftp-ing to prod a merge?"