Alsadius comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 10 July 2013 08:33:31AM 0 points [-]

I'm not going for comp sci jobs, I'm going for finance. Programming is a secondary skill, more used for Excel macros than general-purpose tasks. And virtually nobody uses Linux environments.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 10 July 2013 08:48:03AM 2 points [-]

Going for a field where Linux isn't used is a pretty good reason not to bother with it. You can cover the regexp/scripting-fu the linked article is talking about pretty well by just being handy with Perl or Python instead.