Greg Wilson on Nostr: Before I left my last job I was trying to figure out what to teach computational ...
Before I left my last job I was trying to figure out what to teach computational biologists and data scientists about "systems programming". That's not the right word, but I don't know what to use for the weird mix of "what is fork/exec?", "what is a container?", "how do virtual environments work?", "how does HTTPS work?", and other things that I can draw on that they don't know.
https://gvwilson.github.io/sys-tutorial/ is a very rough start: if you have suggestions, please file issues in its repo. Thank you.
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