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My Nerd Story
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grew up in TV repairman's | |
spare parts nirvana -------------- learned morse code | |
(my grandpa) | |
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was told I could do anything i wanted | |
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explained to other grandpa I was smarter than him | |
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| | played lots of Qbert skipped 2nd grade | |
| | on an Atari but thought | |
| | most games were boring | | |
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learned the violin mastered PrintShop and games on Apple ][e | | |
| | Told middle school teacher to shut up | |
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lab partner, who was crying | |
got really good at violin had a 386 in my room | |
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spent all free time became home sysadmin for got really good grades | |
on violin computer and printer and enough financial aid | |
to go to college out of state | |
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Attended the University of Oregon! | |
Home of A Really Fast Research Network, 6bone | |
and the Computing Center. | |
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Majored in Chemistry | |
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got into indie rock, started an athiest club, worked at Dunkin' Donuts met, befriended, | |
twee, prog rock, attended conferences dated a UNIX hacker | |
punk, post-punk, | | |
experimental and more | | | | |
classical music | | | | |
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went to lots and lots wrote for several college Hated it. learned about usenet, | |
of shows newspapers and magazines got several UNIX accounts, | |
got caught trolling | |
| | alt.fraternities.sororities | |
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| | set up first computer | |
| | installed slackware from floppies | |
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befriended a network hung out with polysci majors got a helpdesk job at | |
hacker and student gov't ppl a law school. | |
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| started posting on ASUO boss quit. promoted to | |
| usenet groups about student fees. sysadmin of Novell network, | |
| law school email, Macs | |
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failed several classes. | |
retook classes and then decided | |
to reprioritize. | |
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focused on linux systems (all spare money spent on upgrading computers) | |
ran for student government; served on a finance committee, student and university senate | |
changed major to computer science | |
learned C, C++, Java and a little perl | |
went to LISA twice as a student, first sysadmin conference | |
was first network security student employee; worked with FBI, security features for UNIX systems | |
wrote undergrad thesis on monitoring system using petri nets for anomaly detection | |
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graduated. applied for jobs. | |
got massively lowballed by a SV sysadmin company (compared notes with male friends) | |
read Perl in 21 days before interview at Intel listing perl as #1 job qualification. | |
took job at Intel | |
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got a crappy perl script accepted as a contribution to RRDTool, my favorite network tool | |
... and the rest, is: | |
perl | |
cisco, cisco, cisco | |
mysql | |
ruby (briefly) | |
objective C (briefly) | |
hardware controls (heat treat, lasers) | |
java (again :() | |
postgresql -> for 8 years now | |
python | |
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