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Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)

jedberg 5y ago
Being good is neither necessary or sufficient for getting a high paying job. Being able to get in front of a hiring manager who is offering a high paying job and convincing them to hire you is the only thing. And having a very popular website with a ton of traffic is more likely to get you in front of a hiring manager with a good job than actually being good.
- dwq65 5y ago
  To drive this home, if anyone were to tell me they’re keeping ~400kRPS afloat singlehandedly, that’s “I’ll write you a req, what do you want to do?” territory.
- richardwhiuk 5y ago
  His CVE is good enough to get past any hiring manager for whom hosting the site would be interesting. Rackspace: - Principal Architect, OpenStack - Cloud Architect, Cloud Servers - Chief Security Architect, Director
movedx 5y ago
Ditto (London office.)
mjcarden 5y ago
He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/ https://majorhayden.com/
- kreelman 5y ago
  Such a fun resume. I'd love to set one up like that. Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)
  - badsectoracula 5y ago
    Make sure you do that floating effect (where part of the text 'rises' from the text) IE4 and some other early CHM files had when you opened it to show off that there was a browser engine underneath with full javascript and all :-)
- indigodaddy 5y ago
  RHCA(rchitect) That cert is no joke. RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material). RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...
  - geerlingguy 5y ago
    The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess). I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill. Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!
    - indigodaddy 5y ago
      Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.
    - Cthulhu_ 5y ago
      The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.
      - indigodaddy 5y ago
        Yeah once your career is somewhat established, they don’t mean all that much. My RHCA (Administrator) aged out in 2017, and I’ve felt little need to renew it.

Being good is neither necessary or sufficient for getting a high paying job. Being able to get in front of a hiring manager who is offering a high paying job and convincing them to hire you is the only thing. And having a very popular website with a ton of traffic is more likely to get you in front of a hiring manager with a good job than actually being good.

dwq65 5y ago
To drive this home, if anyone were to tell me they’re keeping ~400kRPS afloat singlehandedly, that’s “I’ll write you a req, what do you want to do?” territory.
richardwhiuk 5y ago
His CVE is good enough to get past any hiring manager for whom hosting the site would be interesting. Rackspace: - Principal Architect, OpenStack - Cloud Architect, Cloud Servers - Chief Security Architect, Director

movedx 5y ago

Ditto (London office.)

mjcarden 5y ago

He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/ https://majorhayden.com/

kreelman 5y ago
Such a fun resume. I'd love to set one up like that. Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)
- badsectoracula 5y ago
  Make sure you do that floating effect (where part of the text 'rises' from the text) IE4 and some other early CHM files had when you opened it to show off that there was a browser engine underneath with full javascript and all :-)
indigodaddy 5y ago
RHCA(rchitect) That cert is no joke. RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material). RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...
- geerlingguy 5y ago
  The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess). I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill. Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!
  - indigodaddy 5y ago
    Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.
  - Cthulhu_ 5y ago
    The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.
    - indigodaddy 5y ago
      Yeah once your career is somewhat established, they don’t mean all that much. My RHCA (Administrator) aged out in 2017, and I’ve felt little need to renew it.