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> The build server needed to be rebooted, but this was during the pandemic when no one was in the office. Furthermore, it was a Friday making it even more unlik
by KingMachiavelli 5y ago
> The build server needed to be rebooted, but this was during the pandemic when no one was in the office. Furthermore, it was a Friday making it even more unlikely someone was around to do something as simple as press a button to reboot a machine.
WTF? Why is a company like Apple using one off machines for release builds? That should all be on a VM and a server with a management interface. I made that mistake once and won't make it again.
It can take some time to adjust to feeling like you are always at work but IMO it also feels like I'm never at work. I work 40+ hours and respond to things off hours but I don't have to deal with the hour or so of wasted time and typical office annoyances.
- exBarrelSpoiler 5y agoApple is a very old and heterogeneous company that flies by the skin of its teeth and there are engineering and organizational practices that would make the most hardcore Mac Addict blanch.
- rcarmo 5y agoTrue, but that is changing.
- kyralis 5y agoThey're not. Some random team within Apple is. Just like any other company, there are definitely teams that have a terrible culture along with teams that don't.
- rhinoceraptor 5y ago> That should all be on a VM and a server with a management interface. I guess when you have a bespoke OS that can't really be virtualized and needs to run on your own (non-server grade) hardware, you need to do stuff like this. I imagine the 'build server' is actually just a Mac Mini.