canadian_tired

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   by canadian_tired 6y ago

   Indeed. I have realized 2 things: First, technical specialization is increasingly more fine-grained; second, assumptions that anything outside of the specialization will magically just work. To extend your example, 30 years ago you could
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   by canadian_tired 6y ago

   Asked of Cliff Stoll for his PhD defense: "Why is the sky blue?"
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   by canadian_tired 6y ago

   Oh yeah. I remember The Announcement (sale of Sun to Oracle). Punch to the gut.
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   by canadian_tired 6y ago

   I will always look back on Solaris wistfully. It was (and will always be) my favorite Unix. When containers showed up... oh man... my lab guys lost their mind. We had a never ending parade of upgrades...and server rotation. Enter zones..
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   by canadian_tired 6y ago

   I worked at Nortel before and during the collapse. It was a wild ride... stories abound. 100K+ employees... and they couldn't hire them fast enough. Many stories of Nortel hiring who ever they could just so the competition couldn&