Wwhite

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   by Wwhite 8y ago

   This article is like a watery, inoffensive version of Graeber for the author and his MBA classmates in the managerial class.
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   by Wwhite 8y ago

   Yeah, not everything needs to be coded like you're showing it off on github. Not that you can't do some nifty stuff, elegantly, in Perl. Should you write your entire codebase in Perl, in 2018? hell no But you probably shouldn&#x27
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   by Wwhite 8y ago

   s/guts to rewrite them/staff experienced in both languages, with access to the original requirements, and knowledge of said system, in addition to full support from management to swap out working code with fresh, potentially buggy
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   by Wwhite 8y ago

   A Perl reference, I think :) http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris As a sysadmin who started out replacing power supplies as a datacenter tech, and nowadays wrangles AWS auto-scaling groups, the idea of _not_ automat
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   by Wwhite 10y ago

   It is just an inference, for sure, but I reread the post, less angry, and imagining the author was a student I respected; It still comes off a bit crass, especially these two quotes: "A less-talked about part of the bootcamper’s journe
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   by Wwhite 10y ago

   At least only 2.8 percent of the companies he contacted were interested in hiring someone whose only genuine reason to be interested in software development is the salary. Now I remember why I've gravitated towards sysadmin rather than