In which I am a great big nerd

Mar 29, 2010 15:15

There's a billboard on my commute for a company that's hiring technical people. They're using Unix commands in the ad to attract the people they want, so the ad says:

Want to tail -f the latest thing? Then wget http://some/company/url!

Whenever I go by I think "No, I'd want to tail -F in that ( Read more... )

nerd, work

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darkuncle March 29 2010, 22:25:17 UTC
a UNIX CLI billboard?! we don't get anything as cool as that up here ... :(

(and I had actually never seen the -F option, so today is now a net win - I learned a new command-line tool option! yay!)

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taskboy3000 March 29 2010, 23:08:36 UTC
And that's when I rm -rf / the entire drive!

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ext_229682 March 30 2010, 16:39:24 UTC
o/` That's when I reach for my revolver o/`

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slutbunwalla March 30 2010, 04:17:20 UTC
i don't get it completely but I get the frustration.

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