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[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 37 points 2 months ago

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he's no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Stares motherfuckerly at you…

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

🥇 You just won my comment-of-the-day awards 👍

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Yay!!!

[-] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 19 points 2 months ago

I understand your opinion of sysadmins but they still fit the definition of an IT guy

[-] OR3X@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure Nedry was the engineer. Arnold was systems administrator / operator. Neither were computer scientists.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.