crisper78

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by crisper78 5y ago
Awesome! Kudos for owning your own data and infra! I don't think systems administration is a lost art, people just wanted to do things easier for less money and staff, and no one can blame them or the industry as a whole. The art is s
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by crisper78 5y ago
awesome dude, I have a 10Gbps setup at home too, totally not a waste to use what you love!
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by crisper78 5y ago
I would say they don't mostly suck, everyone of them who I have worked with has opened up doors that wouldn't be open otherwise. Made my salary go way up too! Thanks recruiters you are mostly awesome!
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by crisper78 5y ago
it increases the value of my life and many others. Stay home pretty please, I am sure you will be very successful by switching jobs every few months!
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by crisper78 5y ago
So far ive dealt with bullies all my career at every company and i observe then challenge, then challenge again, im 2/3 getting them to quit...no need for hr or threats just be smart and trap em they never know who ;)
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by crisper78 5y ago
facebook had me as someone who could fill their quota for 1st rounds etc I sent an email asking them not to do this twice now. It is quite funny though, because every time I bring up NYC being the only possible location for me, the recruit
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by crisper78 6y ago
I have about 30 examples, none of which will ever be shared on the Internet!
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by crisper78 6y ago
I'll give you some answers: 1) Carrying an entire 75ft tree in pieces from my backyard to my front yard. 2) 10 hours maybe 3)wood needed to be moved 4) when looking at the pile of wood I have to move 5) the resulting stack of wood in f
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by crisper78 6y ago
FAANG's often don't have paying customers, banks do. Its not being stuck between a rock and a hard place, you just need strong management that understands that changing whole systems is never a good idea without clear benefit, oth
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by crisper78 6y ago
so right, but it won't make you any money or get you any linkedin/twitter fans if you speak the truth. We have AI being tossed around like it isn't just database queries most of the time.
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by crisper78 6y ago
When someone says "ex googler" usually during the beginning of a call,I immediately multi-task, let them finish with their chest pounding and move on from them, trying to avoid them going forward. If you can't convince peopl
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by crisper78 6y ago
I remember people pretending to be "skaters" way back, "hacker culture" reminds me a lot of that.
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by crisper78 6y ago
You just didn't have anyone skilled enough to automate those things, or you couldn't manage that. If you are colo you aren't swapping disks/network your colo provider is. Im not advocating for doing it ALL yourself, mak
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by crisper78 6y ago
Can you please tell us why? What are you afraid of? I have seen servers up much longer than 2 days, still humming along no memory leaks no whatever you can think of that "rots" on a server that doesn't change. Maybe your a
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by crisper78 6y ago
Servers go down in AWS too, they are a colo shop with an open source services arm to implement multi tenant services of which you are one tenant yet paying for that multi tenancy service. You may not notice it having 1 but have a few thousa
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by crisper78 6y ago
My last company, went the dedicated route, had management that understood how much of a ripoff AWS/Azure/GCP was and hired people who know how a lot of apps are built and run, and didn't need to redevelop them to fit the arch