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by bitshepherd 9y ago
It's easier to deal with than you think. Don't outright admit to a firing when the question comes up. I'm not saying make something up on the fly, because they'll smell the bullshit, but think of how you can spin your te
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
I've been on both ends of the spectrum, from being PIP'd out the door to never hear from them again -- after burning bridges to be there and dedicating years to the mission -- to getting multiple base salary increases in a year an
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
I wrote a Docker helper script, which resets it to a baseline state when I need to clear out cruft post-restart. I call it harpoon, so I can harpoon the whale when I go to restart my dev machine.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
A great number of issues can be attributed to the selection of Azure as the platform of choice. That said, a little bird told me that the decision was largely a cost factor. "You get what you pay for" never rang more true.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
It's supposed to end in .html and this link does not.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
The last time I was recruited by a Google or an Apple, the offer was nearly $30k below what I'm being paid now, and I'm not overpaid by any stretch. I'll never be able to afford to buy a house or even think about starting a f
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
I've been recruited by both and learned they both pay below market unless you're in the top 1% and have a messianic-like following. My choice would be neither, and find somewhere that pays more.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
Being that chunks of it are already available via https://opensource.apple.com/ not much would happen. The NextBSD project was consuming some of the open sourced bits and bolting them onto a FreeBSD fork, but I'm not s
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
OpenContrail uses XMPP for communicating between the control plane and vRouters. It has a modest userbase in the SDN/NFV areas.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
That's where you schedule a meeting to talk about scheduling a meeting to talk about Where We Went Wrong With Analysis.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
One former employer tested prospective hires by handing them a print-out of a script, nothing too fancy, just some shell script, and ask them to explain what the script did and if there were any errors. If one can read the language, and kno
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
Look at it from the other side. They're debugging your shitty code, too.
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
I was at an interview for a startup, when the person interviewing me yelled out the room to someone passing by "hey $guy! I found our new sysadmin!" and we finish our chat, and I go home. Never heard from them again. Reached out t
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by bitshepherd 10y ago
This. So much _not_ this. You're suggesting self-flagellation as a solution. When I was last unemployed, I made connections with people I had no intention of talking to other than for or about a job. I also kept my tech hobbies up, not
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Well, you can relocate to the Bay Area, as expensive as it is. I did so, as well as a huge mob of Texans. Californians did the opposite: moved to Texas for cheaper housing/lower taxes. The upside is they pay you more to offset the cost
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
You're competing with UT grads and everyone else who moved to the area for tech. Not having a degree in Austin puts you at a significant disadvantage when it comes to getting recruited. I had the same problem when I lived there and I,
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
You can have some QA, no QA, or even great QA, but the output is purely a result of its environment. I have a chat bot that went casually racist about a day or two after activating it. After looking through the logs, I found a particularly
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Congratulations, you have experience. No, really, chalk this one up to experience and learn from it.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
It just doesn't work that way. Once a batch file goes through, that's it until another batch file gets processed.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
This might explain the string of interviews I've taken place in where it's typically down to one person that shuts everything down because they want to play stump the chump. You know, instead of looking for qualities in candidates
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
We have the long, articulated busses, too. The drivers also drive those as if they were behind the wheel of a sports car.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Except in the Bay Area, where bus drivers move those slow, more predictable machines as if they were sports cars.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
https://freebsd.org/handbook It's a comprehensive, yet not too dense, set of documentation for getting people up to speed on how to do things with FreeBSD. You may not find a better one even today.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Welcome to "The Cloud". VPS can be effectively rebranded as "cloud", except when a server has problems you shoot first and ask later.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Try to find a more solid, ubiquitous Unix-like environment that "just works". This is especially so if you're deploying entirely onto a Unix-like platform, such as a Linux flavor or BSD. The Linux distros, for all their good,
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
I remember GitLab. They interviewed myself and a bunch of my colleagues to test the salary waters here in the Bay Area and hired nobody because we were all "overpriced", with several being underpaid for the area. If you want the t
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Each of these projects accept patches from the community (read: me and you). If there is no money attached to it and the community doesn't have time to do it, it ain't getting done.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Amazon has built itself a reputation for being a meat grinder, where bright-eyed employees go to be burned out, only to be replaced by another. Even their interview process reflects this sad state of affairs. That reputation wasn't bui
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
My experience with fishing in Austin is that they love you when you're not in Texas. If you're in Texas, you don't exist to them, so you don't get an interview.
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by bitshepherd 11y ago
Fun fact about Yodlee: if you link a bank account to a PayPal account, by the very act of doing so, you grant Yodlee and PayPal power of attorney Makes ya think about the fine print with sites that deal with bank account details.

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