bpchaps

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by bpchaps 10y ago
I have a different personality with different sets of motivations, compounded with mental health differences that make it near impossible to fit in with the SV crowd. It's one of the few crowds like this, despite their swaths of feel-g
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Other smaller companies act like this, too. Was invited to a steak lunch for automic's UC4 (job scheduling) at a fancy dinner far away from anything relevant and at no point, during a two hour talk, was anything of substance actually s
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Read my comment 30 minutes before yours. I'm pretty much conceding. This was also 5 years ago on a rhel4 machine, fwiw.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Sure - I'll give you my real world example. Apologies in advance for the long story. I was "poached" into another company in a relatively large company in finance as a linux admin along with a PM coworker who I viewed as a go
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Huh. I may stand corrected. I just looked up the odds, and it's uh. A lot higher probability than I thought. Heh. Makes me wonder now. Might've been a rogue rsync at the time or something, then. /shrug.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
One of the odd things I've seen that marks a "good" admin from a "bad" admin is their reliance on md5s as a checksum for file differences for anything in bulk. It's extremely rare to see a collision, but it def
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Love it. Every time I try to talk about these things with those who participate in these sorts of mentalities, I'm shrugged off as cynical, or non-appreciative of a perception of positive progress. It's very difficult as someone w
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by bpchaps 10y ago
The HR person at that same place told me that they often hired people knowing that they'd quit sometime into their employment and hinted they were there for only for political weight. So yeah, acculturation often runs deep and sharp.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yes, but people are dickholes who take advantage of these setups. I was part of one of those setups, but only realized what was going on after I joined. There's absolutely a middle ground, but I'm not sure that direct hire of team
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Unfortunately the people element is too big to remove from this equation and should be included in your risk model. Another thing to consider is that people are just generally assholes and will take advantage of a system like this. Like I s
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Isn't that, uh.. a pretty big downside?
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This is the sort of defeatist and way-too-easy attitude that turns things to garbage all around. In many ways, bringing up issues that affect many opinionated people's core values is how things get fixed. If this was said for everythin
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Agreed, but unfortunately info is used so infrequently that I don't even bother with it these days.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Be very, very careful with this. I was once brought to a company where my boss and her boss came from the same company essentially at the same time. My boss was considered overly aggressive with wanting to make (good) changes and "spok
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I dunno, I find them much better than most of the documentation I've worked with. I agree with you for beginners, since when I first started reading man pages and such, I wanted to rip my eyes out. But after a while, once I learned w
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, and unfortunately, Netflix is more and more changing not just their contract/terms. Their main interface is breathtakingly annoying to use these days. I'd say that it's along the same spectrum of annoyance that the par
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I think the point of it is just to push you out of ruts so that you can gain the motivation to get back on track in learning. A good coding analogy might be in biting the bullet and start coding when stuck in a paralysis analysis loop is of
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Really odd critique. You might get a lot of confusion from people seeing it as an underlined URL and mentally think "bagger" initially. Especially since the a and the first q kind of continue where the next letter's curl ends
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Well, for one, don't allow people to get masters degrees in security if they don't know how to run ls. Met a guy like that at my last place... Next, hire more security people who just want to take things apart. There's this
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Nah, I totally get it. In a weird way, I'm glad there's been this much resistance, considering I'm too stubborn to back away. Every time someone or something pushes back, it's another thing that gives me a chance to say
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yep. When the Chicago Tribune posted an article on how they started a lawsuit for Rahm's email/text records, I almost immediately called them to tell them about the lawsuit I'd filed for his phone records about a month prior
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I've been working in ops for quite some and only within the past two years got to work with PMs. Some of them are absolute pleasures to work with, but.. get more than two PMs on a call and just sit back and watch the chaos of Getting N
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Tss. After seeing how weakly regulators push exchanges like CME to prevent legitimate and proven spoofing, it's pretty clear that "backed up by their bosses" goes all the way up the chain. Side comment: The GS head of technol
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by bpchaps 11y ago
My favorite is still hunting down .lck files with strace because of a bad lock file implementation. Reinstalling definitely fixes that one :). Looking at you, firefox and yum!
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I genuinely appreciate the response and fully agree with the reasoning. I guess the posts I saw were some weird form of survivorship bias. Curious what happened there, but "shit happens" sounds pretty valid. :) Like I said earlier
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Eh, the tact was definitely off, but the message still holds some some truth. I've worked at my fair share of large companies and the mark of a shift of events towards misery, dread and outage galore is when h1b becomes more widesprea
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Agreed. I never really spent any time specifically learning, but just by getting deep into the thing I'm working on with a secondary focus on learning is all it took. Deliberate, dedicated learning like what's being described here
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sorry about that. I'll edit my comment. If I still have your attention, actually, would you mind deleting my account and possibly the comments? I've seen lots of comments on here saying that it's difficult to get a response f
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yeah, and again, that's just an example of a problem that has a large gradient of issues. An even better example might be apt and logstash, since both are considered "not shit" by many. I realize it's a large and unbear
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by bpchaps 11y ago
-Way to be dismissive. I work with two professionally and two at home. Not that simple. -aur is just an example, but there are many, many "live" packages on there that aren't close to production ready like they think they are

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