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In a much less serious vein, I had a boss who used to joke about throwing our laptops on the ground at work, saying "if you're not up and running on another mac
by sharkweek 11y ago
In a much less serious vein, I had a boss who used to joke about throwing our laptops on the ground at work, saying "if you're not up and running on another machine in 10 minutes, you're doing it wrong"
- pmiller2 11y agoI can do that at work, because all my code is on an EC2 instance, and I use emacs on the remote box as my editor. I've accidentally logged out of my X session and been back up and running in less than a minute before.
- teraflop 11y agoThen just replace "throw laptop on ground" with "delete EC2 instance".
- pmiller2 11y agoThat would take longer than 10 minutes but definitely under an hour.
- Estragon 11y agoHow often is this put to the test? How do you automatically record configuration changes like the occasional "apt-get" to bring in something you're missing?
- pmiller2 11y agoWe use chef to record all our config. Our chef configuration is pretty stable these days, but it gets tested every time we build a new dev box, which happens at least as often as we hire new engineers. I could completely rebuild my dev box at any minute and the only thing I'd lose would be unpushed changes I was working on at that minute.
- gesman 11y ago0 seconds. Just continue using laptop :)