I'm not an Admin. I'm a Cloud Engineer. My systems administration days are long behind me. That said, I can tell you first hand, there are many 300k Engineers that wouldn't know what to do with a batch file either as they worked almost exclusively on Macs or Linux shells for the past 30 - 40 years.
His exploration of the code and difference making was good enough for me.
A quick corollary to this, the difference between a Sys Admin and a DevOps Engineer is not what they do or do not know. Its their ability to understand and research information quickly to decipher the tech they are looking at.
I can tell you an anecdote about me right now: I don't know jack shit about Android or IOS development. Yet in the past 3 months, I have developed a cloud based mobile pipeline for the compiling and storage of both OS's for my current assignment.
Tech is so fluid that what may be the latest and greatest today, will be obsolete in a few years. The mark of a truly good Admin or Engineer is not knowing everything by heart, but researching and understanding an issue quickly and solving it.
Saying he should have 'done research' is pretty dismissive about the scale of differences from one OS to another.
No it isn't. It's common sense as I said. Would you go up in front of millions of people and "demo" something before doing some run throughs before hand?
I'm in the computer field. I have experience on both Windows and Linux platforms. I can certainly understand many on the Linux side looking down on Windows and not really being interested in knowing about that platform. However, if you're going to be presenting something which includes artifacts from the Windows platform you probably should have a cursory understanding of whatever you're going to present.
I'm not an Admin. I'm a Cloud Engineer. My systems administration days are long behind me. That said, I can tell you first hand, there are many 300k Engineers that wouldn't know what to do with a batch file either as they worked almost exclusively on Macs or Linux shells for the past 30 - 40 years.
His exploration of the code and difference making was good enough for me.
A quick corollary to this, the difference between a Sys Admin and a DevOps Engineer is not what they do or do not know. Its their ability to understand and research information quickly to decipher the tech they are looking at.
I can tell you an anecdote about me right now: I don't know jack shit about Android or IOS development. Yet in the past 3 months, I have developed a cloud based mobile pipeline for the compiling and storage of both OS's for my current assignment.
Tech is so fluid that what may be the latest and greatest today, will be obsolete in a few years. The mark of a truly good Admin or Engineer is not knowing everything by heart, but researching and understanding an issue quickly and solving it.
Well if it was me I'd probably do a bit of research on the subject before I was being watched by millions of people. Just common sense.
OK: go become a lawyer in a week.
Or be a doctor in a week.
Or general auto-mechanic in a week.
Saying he should have 'done research' is pretty dismissive about the scale of differences from one OS to another.
No it isn't. It's common sense as I said. Would you go up in front of millions of people and "demo" something before doing some run throughs before hand?
I'm in the computer field. I have experience on both Windows and Linux platforms. I can certainly understand many on the Linux side looking down on Windows and not really being interested in knowing about that platform. However, if you're going to be presenting something which includes artifacts from the Windows platform you probably should have a cursory understanding of whatever you're going to present.