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> I woke and the backup was finished! I wiped the VPS Just this single line made me scream in horror. Let me get this straight. He launched some backup comman

> I woke and the backup was finished! I wiped the VPS Just this single line made me scream in horror. Let me get this straight. He launched some backup command, it didn't output anything for hours, he suspected it hadn't done anything, aborted with ctrl-c, and then learned that he aborted it at 90%. Wipes the partial backup, starts again. After _that_ experience, he blindly trusts the result of _the same tool_, blindly wipes everything? Wtf.

wildmanx 5y ago
Spoiler: That's not even part of his "lessons learned". I know whom I won't hire for my company IT or devops or whatnot.
- abraae 5y ago
  Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in three days of stress and frustration as I clambered to restore a self-hosting empire that I myself had reduced to ash."
  - argomo 5y ago
    Plus he's able to reflect on his own mistakes and articulate what he learned from them. Would hire.
- bluehatbrit 5y ago
  One of the articles they link off to about choosing a different provider explains that the author is a student. I think it's reasonable to assume they don't have much experience with this type of work. Hopefully they'll learn a lot from this process and maybe from the comments here as well. Maybe lets not write someone off before we understand more about their experience and background, especially after they shared an honest account of something they screwed up and learned from.
- gperciva 5y ago
  Do you normally hire high school students at your company?
  - ikiris 5y ago
    They cost less.
- nick__m 5y ago
  Good idea to let him graduate from highschool before hiring him !
- sigmonsays 5y ago
  i did things like this in high school tool...
- monkeywork 5y ago
  Given you phrased this "for my company IT or devops or whatnot" I'm going to guess you have very little if any input into who gets hired into those positions, or at least shouldn't if you yourself don't know what the terminology for them should be. Secondly taking shots at people like this does not encourage people to share learnable lessons like this - instead it encourages them to hide it away. Again if you are person in management you'd think you'd know better than to encourage people to hide mistakes instead of owning them and learning from them. Finally - you do realize this is a kid right? Not some seasoned professional?
- bigiain 5y ago
  > I’m FIGBERT, an Israeli-American high school student They've got probably half a decade of youthful mistakes to make yet before they'll darken your recruiting door. Give em a break. (At their age I think I was still bashing on Locksmith to copy AppleII game floppies, and I turned out OK enough to be managing the devops team where I work now...)
Dylan16807 5y ago
> After _that_ experience, he blindly trusts the result of _the same tool_, blindly wipes everything? Wtf. You imply that there's something wrong with the tool because he aborted early the first time? Why? I would check the backup too but why emphasize "the same tool" like that? It has a -v flag.

wildmanx 5y ago

Spoiler: That's not even part of his "lessons learned". I know whom I won't hire for my company IT or devops or whatnot.

abraae 5y ago
Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in three days of stress and frustration as I clambered to restore a self-hosting empire that I myself had reduced to ash."
- argomo 5y ago
  Plus he's able to reflect on his own mistakes and articulate what he learned from them. Would hire.
bluehatbrit 5y ago
One of the articles they link off to about choosing a different provider explains that the author is a student. I think it's reasonable to assume they don't have much experience with this type of work. Hopefully they'll learn a lot from this process and maybe from the comments here as well. Maybe lets not write someone off before we understand more about their experience and background, especially after they shared an honest account of something they screwed up and learned from.
gperciva 5y ago
Do you normally hire high school students at your company?
- ikiris 5y ago
  They cost less.
nick__m 5y ago
Good idea to let him graduate from highschool before hiring him !
sigmonsays 5y ago
i did things like this in high school tool...
monkeywork 5y ago
Given you phrased this "for my company IT or devops or whatnot" I'm going to guess you have very little if any input into who gets hired into those positions, or at least shouldn't if you yourself don't know what the terminology for them should be. Secondly taking shots at people like this does not encourage people to share learnable lessons like this - instead it encourages them to hide it away. Again if you are person in management you'd think you'd know better than to encourage people to hide mistakes instead of owning them and learning from them. Finally - you do realize this is a kid right? Not some seasoned professional?
bigiain 5y ago
> I’m FIGBERT, an Israeli-American high school student They've got probably half a decade of youthful mistakes to make yet before they'll darken your recruiting door. Give em a break. (At their age I think I was still bashing on Locksmith to copy AppleII game floppies, and I turned out OK enough to be managing the devops team where I work now...)

Dylan16807 5y ago

> After _that_ experience, he blindly trusts the result of _the same tool_, blindly wipes everything? Wtf. You imply that there's something wrong with the tool because he aborted early the first time? Why? I would check the backup too but why emphasize "the same tool" like that? It has a -v flag.