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by devonkim 8y ago
For a similar chart (that is potentially even harder to read and visualize somehow) this came out a couple years ago wrt people actually in certain occupations rather than for graduates in certain disciplines . https://www.blo
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by devonkim 8y ago
I’ve been a govie and contractor both and have done private sector work in companies of varying sizes, I get you. I was mostly speaking not necessarily to you but for others that may have certain perceptions of government work that are inac
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by devonkim 8y ago
I don't think this problem of promotion is unique to government - this applies everywhere in modern sales and image-oriented business cultures rather than longevity and loyalty. Maintenance hardly gets any innovation in general compa
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by devonkim 8y ago
Most of CGI’s customers (if it’s the CGI I’m thinking of) are used to supporting software ecosystems like Fortran, Java, and COBOL for 20+ years on major releases. 10 years is “mid-cycle” comparably. When the IRS pays Microsoft millions and
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by devonkim 9y ago
It bothers me that so many otherwise intelligent managers will opt for cheaper labor with higher turnover and oftentimes worse efficiency.... to save money. I just don’t understand how all the micro-inefficiencies or lack of experience can
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by devonkim 9y ago
Somewhat related but this article from a while back had some observations on how mattresses are a marketer’s dream to sell. The really shady nature of these companies in protecting their brand even at the online review level does not inspir
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by devonkim 9y ago
Fundamentally, your database availability matters more than anything else at the moment for your SLO. So it is important to understand what keeps the DB team from delivering a solution that has better measured SLA. If they’re fighting simil
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by devonkim 9y ago
It’s a bigger divide when we go across teams. Most programmers distinctly look down upon sysadmins and as a sysadmin and developer I really have to say that the sheer number of former blue collar workers that became sysadmins compared to de
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by devonkim 9y ago
Things get awkward when versioning standards require all application components to have the same version because several version numbers running around is cognitive overhead that engineers can’t afford in many situations. With more than abo
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by devonkim 9y ago
rsyslog or syslog-ng were preferred these days for better security and performance I thought? Unless you’re using something like stunnel to wrap the syslog messages that is.
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by devonkim 9y ago
If you’re not violently opposed to MongoDB Graylog is very popular. I haven’t heard bad things about it so far besides the MongoDB portion but log aggregation is one of those systems that may be ok with some hiccups from time to time as opp
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by devonkim 9y ago
I have to wonder if we can’t learn something from newer social media platforms and apply it to productivity ecosystems. The fact it’s almost tough to not share any activity may be important. There’s so much effort we have to expend to con
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by devonkim 9y ago
I think a mixture of persistent proxies could work well with lambda functions for this use case. You can run lambdas in your VPCs with assigned security groups and IAM roles just like an EC2 instance and therefore lambda functions should be
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by devonkim 9y ago
I think there really needs to be a separate acronym from CD to better distinguish deployment from delivery (similar to authn v. authz in security nomenclature). Nobody with the right mindshare seems to have made this a priority though becau
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by devonkim 9y ago
I’m pretty done with old school change managers that act like ITIL is the only sane way to practice safe, reliable management of systems. In fact, I’ve never, ever seen anyone go full hog ITIL in IT leadership in the F500 that had ever work
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by devonkim 9y ago
This kind of cycle is part of why I’m regretting 13+ years in different incarnations of ops. Developers have always gotten business priority over ops unless it comes to security and I’ve seen far more places brush aside even security in the
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by devonkim 9y ago
Being able to save for 2 years alone is a massive endeavor for most people. This usually means one or more of: 1. living far below means for years 2. delaying life events (marriage, house, grad school, etc.) 3. having low enough unexpected
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by devonkim 9y ago
I was under the impression that if you really want to optimize for space that you should avoid kernel module overhead entirely and build in your modules statically. Maybe it only saves a few bytes and a couple clock cycles at load time but
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by devonkim 9y ago
Exactly, and winner takes all is extremely common for markets competing for rather limited markets. In sports, consumers really don’t pay much attention to high school athletes, car designs are becoming more and more homogeneous, and in pop
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by devonkim 9y ago
The anti-pattern / co-option of devops as a role is almost entirely overlapping with companies undergoing digital transformations and advised by some CIO magazine, Big Four, or Gartner team that it’s important for said transformation.
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by devonkim 9y ago
Deductibles are not free on most policies, and not everyone carries comprehensive insurance on their vehicles, especially if they’re worth less than $6000 or so.
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by devonkim 9y ago
I’ve noticed some Docker image registry solutions out there billing / chargeback based upon total image size committed to the repository rather than realized disk usage. This pretty much destroys the space advantages of Docker images c
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by devonkim 9y ago
Given the trillions in waste, fraud, and abuse prevalent for decades in DoD projects all with the intent to “protect the American people and soldiers”, surely a few million for protecting consumers is pretty decent value even if it’s nowher
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by devonkim 9y ago
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/1/29/16946010/amazon-hq2-hea... The five primary criteria driving Amazon’s decision, per GBH, include: 1. “East Coast presence.” 2. “Thriving engineering/surrounding
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by devonkim 9y ago
My understanding of the Tumblr porn content is that they’re usually small clips and I believe under so many seconds doesn’t count under copyright infringement laws. However, nothing would be a problem if it was original content that had wai
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by devonkim 9y ago
I am a bit confused about Austin as a candidate partly because I thought that Amazon wanted an east coast presence, not mid-country. So it boils really down to Boston, DC, and Atlanta as options. As another engineer in Atlanta, I’ve got mix
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by devonkim 9y ago
I think you may be thinking about Effective Altruism conceptually but from a corporate rather than individual angle.
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by devonkim 9y ago
I don't understand, Google uses ECMP in Maglev [1]. Is there something specific about Maglev that makes their usage of ECMP viable while the scenarios that you encountered were poor fits? [1] https://research.google.com&#x2F
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by devonkim 9y ago
I’ve heard some rumblings that this is what some HFT shops were doing years ago to minimize latency and to reduce context switches. Because they already run bare metal and don’t share anything besides a physical facility with their competit
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by devonkim 9y ago
Something seems odd about the supposition and their opening data set with older, childless women - do women that are childless and infertile from an earlier age feel similarly? Why not flip this around to comparing how men with vasectomies

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