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Would the following be a red flag? "We promote modern languages like Python! We've had our own Python 1.5 based fork for 20 years now; there's some documentati
by h2odragon 3y ago
Would the following be a red flag?
"We promote modern languages like Python! We've had our own Python 1.5 based fork for 20 years now; there's some documentation, mostly from 10yr ago when the guy who started the project died. But we've got a good maintenance team and they understand almost all the magic he wrote in."
> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag.
"(almost) all our servers are in containers: we started buying cases after Ptyhon dude died, too. Previous server generations that live as stacks of unsecured hardware on shelves are being upgraded as can by the maintenance team."
- arcza 3y agoI assume you work in edge case testing :)
- h2odragon 3y agoBOFH. Hiring for the maintenance team. (Note: Not "a position on", you will be the team) Also: "RHEL 6?" Bah. Modern heresy. RedHat 4.2 FTW.
- arcza 3y agoUhh... Win 2008 DCs as well I assume I should be grateful for, right? Right?
- h2odragon 3y agoWin98 on a personal airgapped system should you need it for testing. your workstation will be aix, xenix, or solaris 1; dependng on which desk is free any given day. OS diversity is a good thing. get here early, people fight for the Sun box, it has `xeyes`
- j45 3y agoI love python. But not entirely sure it’s as new as go or rust. Old isn’t bad.
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- f1shy 3y agoVery often old==tested==proven==goog
- bronson 3y agoAnd sometimes old==python2==painful to work on.
- j45 3y agoMost things have pain points in some way at some point. The pursuit of a relatively subjective panacea of programming languages is what keeps software developers ceaselessly borne into the past. .like code aspiring Gatsbys reinventing the same libraries and frameworks in different programming syntaxes over and over and over.