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by atsaloli 8y ago
I charge $5,000 per day for on-site training, to train a group of up to 12 people. People have told me I'm undercharging. People have told me I'm more expensive. People buy my services. (We train on Linux system administration r
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You may get some inspiration from https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/how-to-handle-code-compl... Excerpt: > It’s very tempting, if you’re a software engineering manager, to propose broad, sweeping solutions to prob
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by atsaloli 8y ago
Vertical Sysadmin, Inc. | Remote | Part-time Seeking commission-only independent sales agent to sell on-site training on Git and/or GitLab. Progressive pay structure. We deliver IT/DevOps Tools training world-wide. We go to the cl
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by atsaloli 8y ago
More on "Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander and how it helped me: Thanks to this book, I've started re-factoring code before adding new features, our code base is getting a little better every day (more maintainab
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I hear you. The book I mentioned (Thinking in Promises) is the introductory-level public book. https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Theory-Principles-Application... is the heavy-duty scientific stuff. "In Search of Certainty
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Actually the sequence was CFEngine, Puppet, Chef. See http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/relative-origins-of-cfengin...
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Basic concepts of promise theory (10 minute video by Mark Burgess who came up with it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPsB5WuZgk 2014 introductory article: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/promis
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by atsaloli 8y ago
I make my living as a CFEngine consultant. CFEngine runs every 5 minutes (it's lightweight enough to do that). The evolution was: CFEngine 1 ran once a day; CFEngine 2 ran once an hour; CFEngine 3 runs every 5 minutes. Self-healing in
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"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander Book review: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/10/understanding-software-re... Release announcement: https://www.codesimplicity.com/post&
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Well! That explains the .t. Thanks! :)
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Nice article, good to hear ed is not dead. =) You could also just add the text after the matching line. A little simpler and more straight forward. $ cat > /tmp/ed-script /baz a - elephants . w
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I used Chef Rally with great success. https://learn.chef.io/
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I use Happy Hacking Keyboard, which is close to the layout you describe: https://elitekeyboards.com/proddata/doc/hhkbp2_basic_layout1...
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As a professional sysadmin, my go to reference on this is "Documentation Writing for System Administrators", from the Short Topics in System Administration series. https://www.usenix.org/short-topics/documenta
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by atsaloli 9y ago
"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander, https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Kanat-Alexande... I've started re-factoring code before adding new features, our code base is getting a little be
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Seeking commission-only sales agent to sell high-quality on-site training on IT Operations and DevOps. We deliver on-site training world-wide. Our model achieves real learning: we have small class sizes, expert instructors, excellent materi
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Did you try the mailing list? https://www.apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer reads: HOW TO GET ON WELL WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM Hang out for a while until you become familiar with processes
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by atsaloli 9y ago
We use GitLab. We can edit through the web UI or through the command line, with Git and Vim. And it's free -- it's part of GitLab Libre, formerly known as the Community Edition.
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Coping with Spectre and Meltdown: What sysadmins are doing(hpe.com)
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I use CFEngine -- because of its maturity, wide range of supported platforms, and the amazing support I experienced from the author and community. I wrote this 3 years ago and it's still true today: http://verticalsysadmin.c
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by atsaloli 9y ago
You are welcome! I understand. Sounds like you are ready for practical experience. How about volunteering online? E.g. https://www.apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Conf...
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What's DI?
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Here is the training pathway I use to make novice (entry-level) system administrators: http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/training-program-to-make-a-...
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You might enjoy reading archives of the Unix Heritage Society. http://www.tuhs.org and here is the oral history of Unix -- http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/OralHistory/
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Seeking commission-only sales agent to sell high-quality on-site training on IT Operations and DevOps. We deliver on-site training world-wide. Our model achieves real learning: we have small class sizes, expert instructors, excellent materi
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by atsaloli 9y ago
Oh, they do. You can buy directly from GitLab at https://about.gitlab.com/products/ However, as a reseller and a member of the HN community, I can offer HN a discount on list price which comes out of my cut.
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by atsaloli 9y ago
I don't understand. Did you lose Bitcoin? Or did you take somebody else's Bitcoin? What exactly is the problem you need help with?
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Just a reminder, as a GitLab reseller, I offer a 10% discount on GitLab Enterprise Edition to the HN community. My email is in my profile.
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William Gibson used it. That's where I came across it. E.g. "Neuromancer", "Count Zero".

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