It's a Unix system

helgi27 · 840K views · 2009-02-03 · 0:18

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Overview

A clip from Jurassic Park in which Lex says, "It's a Unix system, I know this," while navigating a 3D file system view.

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HN commenters bring it up as a joke about ridiculous movie computing, though some note it was a real Unix file browser (FSN).

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2012–2025

Topics

Film & TV clips Operating systems & kernels GUI, HCI & interface history

What people said

Arainach · 2025-06 · Joke / meme
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] [VIDEO]
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somberi · 2018-11 · Joke / meme
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 :) [VIDEO] (around the 15th second).
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jasode · 2015-12 · Joke / meme
> 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
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