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[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 37 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stares motherfuckerly at you…

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yay!!!

[-] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 19 points 1 week ago

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

[-] OR3X@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 1 week 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.