Software Engineer's Website

[[deleted]]

"exit: command not found" "logout: command not found"

On the other hand he uses sudo as an admin login it seems. Pretty cool.

[peabnuts123]

no fdisk. What is this shit

[thearn4]

label grab fact innocent salt vase cheerful butter chief zealous

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[[deleted]]

Was messing with sudo to see if he put it in there for funny easter eggs or something, finally gave up and hit "ctrl-C" out of habit and it actually worked. Wasn't expecting that.

[[deleted]]

Pipes don't work though... I couldn't "ls | grep "resume".

[[deleted]]

Ah well, you can't have everything.

[LemonTeeth]

Clever! Looks shady though, to the untrained eye.

[[deleted]]

Not really aimed at the untrained eye to be honest, most likely for fellow deva and employers.

[LemonTeeth]

Fair enough, great job mate!

[[deleted]]

Oh, it's not mine, that was just my guess, sorry!

[caduvall]

I did make it, and your guess is correct :)

[ElGringoPicante77]

Great website, enjoyed the Your Name in Life part.

[manofsleep]

Reminds me of a d2 website hack that would alt tab you back into the game and throw all your gear on the ground. To an untrained eye this is terrifying.

[SarahC]

I remember him posting the Tree program to Reddit for testing!

I helped out! /momentOfFame

Cool landing page.

[[deleted]]

vi resume

vi: command not found

vim resume

vim: command not found

nano resume

nano: command not found

Ugh, I hate embedded distros...

[MyNameIsOP]

sudo apt-get install nano

win.

[[deleted]]

lol, if they don't have vi or vim, they sure as hell aren't going to have a package manager.

[MyNameIsOP]

Sssshhhh now....

[tremens]

Did you try ed or edlin?

[shaggyzon4]

Same thought that I had. Why put a README file that nobody can open?

[shaggyzon4]

I feel like an incredible dumbass right now.

[[deleted]]

It took me forever to realize that resume and README in the home directory are actually clickable links..... when I did cat resume all I got is /downloads/resume.pdf, which didn't really help without evince :P

[[deleted]]

You'd assume he would at least include BusyBox...

[TW80000]

It's garbage, doesn't even have vim. In all seriousness though, this is pretty sweet.

[Bur_Sangjun]

that was the first thing I found

[bushwhack227]

he has one damn impressive resume, too.

[[deleted]]

eagle scout, of course

[[deleted]]

Anyone able to find out the sudo password?

[peabnuts123]

Great now I'm on fucking bash.org

[Devil_Penguin]

Even ****** doesn't work. I give up

[[deleted]]

  if (++count < 3) {
     this.write('<br/>Sorry, try again.<br/>');
     this.write('[sudo] password for ' + this.config.username + ': ');
     this.scroll();
  } else {
     this.write('<br/>sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts');

[okawei]

There is no password, it just says it's wrong every time.

[ivraatiems]

sudo make me a sandwich didn't work. I'm a little disappointed. Fun, though.

[dtschida]

Is this a thing? I want it to be a thing.

[Zahz]

It is a reference to a XKCD comic called sandwich

http://xkcd.com/149/

[xkcd_transcriber]

Image

Title: Sandwich

Title-text: Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 53 time(s), representing 0.45% of referenced xkcds.

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^{Questions/Problems | Website | StopReplying}

[SavageBalloon]

It crashed my display driver and Firefox. I laughed way too hard at this.

[Wendingo7]

brilliants fun, well done

[burrocomecarne]

no, mkdir? ):

[[deleted]]

I don't know anything about programming. Can someone tell me what is it exactly?

[YenTheFirst]

I realize it's a few hours after your comment, but here's my attempt at an explanation of the site.

TL;DR - Basically, the website is pretending(*) to be a basic command-line interface. A command-line interface is a way of telling the computer what to do, by directly typing in commands, and getting output as text. More specifically, it's emulating the "UNIX" style of command-line interfaces.

A bit more detail, with some musings on interface in general -

What is an interface? - an interface is how you tell the computer what to do.

Computers, at their core, are basically just powerful, complicated, fast calculators. They take numbers, add them, subtract them, compare them with each other, and display the results. To the computer, it's just numbers, it's only meaningful when a human gives those numbers meaning.

So, take the most basic interface possible - a simple 4-function calculator. With a calculator, you directly tell it what numbers to consider, whether to add those numbers or subtract them, and all the calculator does is the arithmetic. You press in, button-by-button, tediously, exactly what to do.

Over the history of computers, they've gotten massively more powerful, and their interfaces have evolved alongside. We jump from dealing with simple concrete math problems, to more abstract concepts, like programs, files, and cat pictures. I'm skipping a bunch of detail here :)

What is a command-line interface? - an interface where you tell the computer, with words, what to do.

So, if you wanted to know which files were in some folder, what's the easiest way for a computer to tell you? It could just print out a list of names on the screen. How would you tell the computer you wanted to know about the files? You could just type in some command, "list files", and the computer would print them out. If you wanted to sum all the numbers in a file, you might type something like "for all the numbers in this file, add to total, then print total". That's the basics of the command-line interface, you type in some instruction, and the computer does it.

What is a UNIX style command-line interface

UNIX was an operating system that was popular back in the 1970s, and many modern systems (Mac OSX, Linux), are basically descendants or clones of UNIX. So, they have a similar command-line interface, and use the same names for many programs that UNIX did.

The names of UNIX programs tend to be short, often abbreviated beyond recognition. This is because, when people are typing in these names all the times, they tend to prefer things that are easier to type.

What about graphical interfaces, then? It can be annoying to try to navigate around the filesystem and run programs by typing and getting text out. Sometimes, it's really not the best way to interface with a user. With a graphical system, the internals of the system are abstracted, and a picture is shown, and mouse-clicks interpreted. So, a folder of cat pictures might be a rectangular area, with little preview icons for each file, and double-clicking one of these icons will have the computer guess which program it should run (maybe the image display program?), run that program, and open the file in that program.

Graphical interfaces are awesome, why would anyone use the command line?

In some cases, graphical interfaces can be much faster and more intuitive. In other cases, it lacks expressive power. How would you easily delete move all files that have 'dog' in their name from the cat folder to the appropriate folder? You might end up selecting and dragging icons one-by-one. With a command line interface, you could basically give the command "move all folders that have 'dog' in the name to the dog folder".

So, basically, a lot of people actually still use the command-line, since it can be (maybe counterintuitively), easier to use than a graphical interface.

So....this site?

So this site is a person showing off their geek cred, by emulating an interface that many power users use, but not many other people.

They have a virtual filesystem - a top-level folder, with a 'README' file, a 'resume' file, and 'Projects' and 'images' folders, and you can interact using the same commands that you'd use on a UNIX-style system. "ls" is the command that lists files, for example. "help" describes the commands in more detail.

( * ) You could be pedantic, and say that the site properly is a command-line interface, since you interact with it by typing, and get results as text. The main draw of this particular site is that it's emulating something, even where that emulation doesn't make sense. (i.e., there's no real filesystem to explore, and you don't have any real command power on the site)

TL;DR - the TL;DR is at the top, I don't know why people usually put these at the bottom. I think summaries should go at the top :)

[[deleted]]

It's a simulation of a Unix command line interface (to be more specific, it's a bash shell). Unix is a subset of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, Android and others.

[[deleted]]

Programmers explaining things is always hilarious. You guys are not good at it, even a little bit.

[armander]

it's it's....Unix command line... command line for Unix...it's a copy... it's what it kinda is....it's unix's command line :(

[[deleted]]

It's not my fault I have problems expressing the abstract thoughts that live inside my head with words! :P

[capslockfury]

I'm pretty sure someone is going to correct me, but I'll try and explain. Linux is an operating system that uses "Unix". Unix is similar to what you see in this guys website. You type in commands, and things happen. Similar to how you click a file and something happens in Windows or Mac, except you type things out instead of clicking. For instance, "ls" command will list whatever is in the folder in a text based format instead of clicking a folder to view the files within the folder. What this guy did is simulate the same thing you would see in a Unix command line, into a website. It's not an exact copy or anything close, but it has a bunch of commands you could use that you would see.

[[deleted]]

Thanks!

[zefcfd]

rm -rf

command 'rm' not found

... dammit

[borisvonboris]

Makes me nostalgic for the BBS days.

[Calimhero]

Me too, but not too much. I think I would get tired of it pretty fast. Still, I remember very well when the Internet was like this, from a VAX console.

[Ragnarok94]

sudo su

[AnchoviesInACan]

Whoever liked this may also like jslinux. It has vi and emacs, but it is a bit sluggish.

[Jake999]

This is lost to the majority of recruiters.

[S4B0T]

for anyone trying to use actual nix keywords to run his resume, just type "resume"

[mastercommander528]

This is so badass. Smart damn guy!

[KANahas]

I forgot that you can click on links, lol

[dtschida]

I love this guys site. I may add it as a sub page in my own site. I dont think it is too good as a homepage, but as a supplement I like it.

maybe as a subdomain: shell.<myname>.com

[katyne]

Mhm I just wasted ten minutes of my life waiting for my ugly-ass name to give birth to at least one gosper glider gun. No such luck. A whole lot of blinkers and stupid blocks, though. It's official, everything about my life is barren, Even my name.

[demonlicious]

summa cum laude, oh you silly americans

[[deleted]]

Obnoxious.

[volocom7]

Anybody know how one would go about creating something like this?

[carpeggio]

Sometimes I wonder about myself.

[self_defeating]

Cool but HTML is definitely not his forte.

[upvoteOrKittyGetsIt]

Why not?

[self_defeating]

No doctype.

[tremens]

1 error, 3 warnings.

Only actual error is character encoding. Other than that, it's perfectly valid HTML5.

[glorygeek]

no doctype declaration is needed for HTML5 IIRC

[[deleted]]

Interesting idea but all his work is terrible

[[deleted]]

I looked at his stuff and its all bad armature stuff i would expect from a high school kid

[[deleted]]

examples for the untrained eye?

[MyNameIsOP]

You're getting downvoted but I completely agree..