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Well you are ;-). Call us when you bring up your first custom board with completely hand-hacked drivers. (Come on, though, let's not use that kind of terminology.)
I like to think the use of the word pussy in this context is a contraction of the word pusillanimous which means lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pusillanimous?s=t
MySQL: You want answers? htop: I think I'm entitled. MySQL: You want answers? htop: I want the truth! MySQL: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has data, and those data have to be queried by processes that takes load. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant htop? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for 4 cores and you curse the Queries. You have that luxury. Yo…
As a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican.
So if I can use netcat and ethereal, I'm ready for the zombie apocalypse? I can sleep better then. :-P
actually. you can* lay a copy of steele's lambda papers on top of an intel processor and the blinding light of godhood will shine forth
How often I feel like this describes almost every human endeavor. "Oh, your toaster can phone home? Marvelous..."
A chip designer could write a similar rant about how systems programmers live a life of luxury sipping champagne with their pinkies held up. YOU USED AN ASSEMBLER? I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY! Or a chip designer could be mocked by someone else because he uses verilog.
Or the UX researcher could scoff at the systems programmer, because at least CPU's are rational and predictable, while people are at varying levels of intelligence and have different kinds of cultural biases.