cheesylard's comments

I disagree completely, I fit that demographic that you say is "computer illeterate" (I'm 19) and I have been interested in programming since 12 years old. Microsoft wasn't the only influence during that time. Valve was too.

I learned most of my programming through the wonderful tools that Valve gave its users for the Source engine. If it weren't for Valve, I probably wouldn't be interested programming today. My family has no computer background at all. I learned this all on my own. My dad didn't even know what Windows was until I explained it to him.

The point I'm trying to make here is that sure, Microsoft sucks, but you can't blame a single corporation for a trend so massive. There are other platforms. There WAS a good terminal. The in-game Counter Strike: Source console. And Valve's hammer editing is and was incredible for level editing. And have you seen Garry's Mod modding infrastructure? It's all open source (using Lua), and the community is super supportive and helpful. You're just looking in the wrong places.

Yeah. I'll edit that in. Thanks.

edit: Never mind. Looks like I can't.

So um..... call me ignorant, but how is this any different from:

person 1:

    screen -t "foo"

person 2:

    ssh [email protected]
    screen -x "foo"

??

Yeah. I got an internship at an app search startup but decided to go to college instead of continuing to work there. I regret it every day.

Just applied. Crossing my fingers. Thanks for posting this.