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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 19:23:56 JST clacke

   "Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement."

   -- Hal Abelson

   azquotes.com/quote/769064

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 14:15:30 JST clacke

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     • soaproot
     @soaproot Around that time. I'd say the culture is Lisp Machine culture, which I suppose is the CSAIL culture of the time, so maybe the overlap is pretty significant.
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     soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 14:15:31 JST soaproot

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     @clacke Is this from the era/culture of the Unix Hater's Handbook? Seems like it based on the attribution to Hal Abelson.

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     soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 11:22:20 JST soaproot

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     @clacke I'm taking all those as synonymous (or close enough for our purposes), yes.

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