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> Kinda weird to fire up a throwaway, presumably to conceal > your Google credentials, then attack a Xoogler who used to > work on Borg SRE (alongside sjh u

> Kinda weird to fire up a throwaway, presumably to conceal > your Google credentials, then attack a Xoogler who used to > work on Borg SRE (alongside sjh under Peter Dahl, and long > enough my NDA has long since lapsed) That's an interesting way to phrase it. I also worked on Borg SRE with Seth under Peter (for six years), and I don't remember anyone else with the same initials as me being present during that time. Just in case I was forgetting someone, I checked the Borg paper (https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/43438.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...) for the SRE credits section -- I remember all of them, but none had your ... personality. Luckily, the very first hit for a search of [[ jsmthrowaway site:news.ycombinator.com ]] is your old comment from 2013 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805), in which you discuss being terminated after two months due to failing a background check. That explains why I couldn't remember you, but it doesn't explain why you think two months of reading "Borg 101" tutorials has given you meaningful insight into which parts of the Kubernetes implementation are difficult to scale.

jsmthrowaway 8y ago
I love when a thread has been dead for hours and the roaches come out of the woodwork to begin turning a conversation personal because it was linked somewhere, and I obviously and emphatically hit a nerve by criticizing something you hold dear. That’s the only reason I’m still refreshing it at this point. Looking me up (Lord have mercy) and swiping at me as you have here tells me volumes more about you than the effect you intended. What are you expecting? It really says something about Valley culture that I take a swing at Kubernetes, of all bloody things, not gender equality, not politics, not the worth of your contributions to society such as they are, cluster orchestration software, and the absolute worst of you comes out. No factual content, just your smug satisfaction after trying to take an Internet username down a peg. You made the world a better place today. If I cared about you, I might find the whole thing rather sad. I suspect you already do, or will soon, so I need not expend the effort. Don’t worry, I remember you. If you think you have a handle on my personality from reading disdain I vent on Hacker News, you’re much dumber than I remember, which is disappointing given the respect I have for what little I know of your work. Shame, really.
- jmillikin 8y ago
  I found this post on the HN front page. I take it somewhat personally because you're using an account with my initials, claiming to be a member of the team I used to work on, and using it to pretend knowledge of a system you used for less time than a typical intern. https://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/22/absolutely-epic-1974-letter-from-cleveland-browns-to-a-fan https://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/...
  - jsmthrowaway 8y ago
    Good thing it wasn’t my primary responsibility and I didn’t, you know, study the system Google expected me to administer for a living. That sort of knowledge might have shaped my career if I had spent two months studying a software system. Oh wait, I did, and it did. Come on, John, I’ve shipped entire products in less than two months. So have you, I’m sure. You really think I passed a SRE-SWE panel then couldn’t figure out a complex software system in eight weeks? Is this really the approach you’d want someone to remember you for? Butthurt and lashing out because I don’t agree with you on software you’ve convinced Stripe to pay you to fuck around with, and assailing credentials instead of listening to what might be a valuable point, or even disputing it? I always think about the people who flip me off from the safety of halfway down the exit ramp when I’m in threads like these. Not that I’d do anything about it, because I have priors, but still, I smile. I don’t have a middle name, by the way.

jsmthrowaway 8y ago

I love when a thread has been dead for hours and the roaches come out of the woodwork to begin turning a conversation personal because it was linked somewhere, and I obviously and emphatically hit a nerve by criticizing something you hold dear. That’s the only reason I’m still refreshing it at this point. Looking me up (Lord have mercy) and swiping at me as you have here tells me volumes more about you than the effect you intended. What are you expecting? It really says something about Valley culture that I take a swing at Kubernetes, of all bloody things, not gender equality, not politics, not the worth of your contributions to society such as they are, cluster orchestration software, and the absolute worst of you comes out. No factual content, just your smug satisfaction after trying to take an Internet username down a peg. You made the world a better place today. If I cared about you, I might find the whole thing rather sad. I suspect you already do, or will soon, so I need not expend the effort. Don’t worry, I remember you. If you think you have a handle on my personality from reading disdain I vent on Hacker News, you’re much dumber than I remember, which is disappointing given the respect I have for what little I know of your work. Shame, really.

jmillikin 8y ago
I found this post on the HN front page. I take it somewhat personally because you're using an account with my initials, claiming to be a member of the team I used to work on, and using it to pretend knowledge of a system you used for less time than a typical intern. https://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/22/absolutely-epic-1974-letter-from-cleveland-browns-to-a-fan https://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/...
- jsmthrowaway 8y ago
  Good thing it wasn’t my primary responsibility and I didn’t, you know, study the system Google expected me to administer for a living. That sort of knowledge might have shaped my career if I had spent two months studying a software system. Oh wait, I did, and it did. Come on, John, I’ve shipped entire products in less than two months. So have you, I’m sure. You really think I passed a SRE-SWE panel then couldn’t figure out a complex software system in eight weeks? Is this really the approach you’d want someone to remember you for? Butthurt and lashing out because I don’t agree with you on software you’ve convinced Stripe to pay you to fuck around with, and assailing credentials instead of listening to what might be a valuable point, or even disputing it? I always think about the people who flip me off from the safety of halfway down the exit ramp when I’m in threads like these. Not that I’d do anything about it, because I have priors, but still, I smile. I don’t have a middle name, by the way.