840K views · Feb 3, 2009 · 0:18 · 0 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2012–2025
A clip from Jurassic Park in which Lex says, "It's a Unix system, I know this," while navigating a 3D file system view.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters bring it up as a joke about ridiculous movie computing, though some note it was a real Unix file browser (FSN).
“actually was a real unix system running FSN”
Jurassic Park scene showing a real Unix file system browser.
Matrix 2 rather famously involved an actual ssh escalation using nmap. Takedown (aka Track Down) was another fairly accurate example of hacking (though highly inaccurate historically). One of the more famous examples of "Movie OSes", Jurassic Park ( this video ), actually was a real unix system running FSN
“Jurassic Park with that weird 3-d graphical tree file system”
Jurassic Park with that weird 3-d graphical tree file system and the girl geek exclaiming roughly "Cool, its Unix!" gets my vote.[1] [1] this video
> I can't really find an explanation for it so far. He basically hinted at that by saying: "because I get to do what I love (programming,...)" I believe you and gp (lemevi) are talking from 2 different perspectives. Your perspective is more about "don't sell yourself short" or "don't devalue your skills". The gp's perspective is more about the "mystery of the universe" as to why an enjoyable job could pay more than a boring one. It's a similar sentiment to the successful novelists, comedians, musicians saying, "I feel lucky that people pay me lots of money for doing what I love to do." (Yes, there are tons of programmers who suffer through boring CRUD coding and treat it as "just a job" but there are also many programmers who truly enjoy the activity.) I experienced the gp's perspective in my first job out of highschool. I happened to be a decent typist so I got a job to transcribe audio to word processing documents. One day, the business owner was looking at his screen in frustration trying to make something work. I looked over his shoulder and saw things like "DO WHILE" and "DEFINE PROCEDURE" on the screen. I just looked at it and then had one of those Jurassic Park moments[1]. I said, "you need to set a variable here, and move that line there, etc etc." He was totally surprised and said he'd pay me double the hourly rate if I could fix the computer program. I couldn't believe it. I had programmed computers during middle school (age 11 to 13) and treated the whole coding ac
“Couldn't help noting the similarity between your end product and Jurassic Park's layout :)”
Congrats on an useful service, that I will pay for. Couldn't help noting the similarity between your end product and Jurassic Park's layout :) this video (around the 15th second).
Piper's syntax is Perforce syntax. I moved to Google from Microsoft and back when employee orientation involved going to Mountain View and going into labs to learn the basics, it was amusing to see fresh college hires confused at not-git while I sat down and said "It's Source Depot, I know this!"[1] [1] this video
