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by dozzie 9y ago
What issues exactly are you dealing with? You only provided a very vague description of this "operational stuff" you do and are disturbed with.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Erm... why the hell do you care about them working ? You should care about them producing results . Even more so if the team is remote. Results should be much easier to see than the process of working, since they are already delivered to
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by dozzie 9y ago
> * how do you deal with developers writing documentation ? I do like writing documentation that I will use later myself. I dislike having to dig through the code of every tool I wrote just to check how it behaves, so I constantly reach
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by dozzie 9y ago
No, the proper term is "IoT-grade architecture".
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Are you all wearing headphones and hoodies in an open office with a fancy coffee machine right now? Where? Because, you know, the world is quite large and quite diverse.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> you have these dilettantes in all emerging markets. Yes, but in blockchain case the market consists almost entirely of dilettantes. And it's even worse: those dilettantes often think of themselves as experts. > The soundness of
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The price of bitcoin may be bubbly but the tech isn't. > Payments, cross border transactions, IPFS, security, voting, etc are all things that are being or could be disrupted by the blockchain tech Oh, certainly cryptographic di
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by dozzie 9y ago
Never take universal quantifiers literally.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Ah yes, people do bring this case up. However, they don't usually remember that Homebrew at that point was a poor and incomplete reimplementation of other package managers, used to break installed software on updates, and the fact that
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> employer simply doesn't extend the employment > Simple! Simple for the employer but a major issue for the employee. Well, yes, but from what I see around me, it's a standard practice to first hire for the probationary
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> "[...] They’re then on a 90 day probationary period to see if they work out…" > Not sure how that would fly outside of the US. Why not? The purpose of probationary period is precisely that: to see if things work out. I
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Does static vs dynamic also imply that the strong-ness is checked at compile vs runtime? It's less like "implies" and more like "it's the definition of".
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by dozzie 9y ago
So, basically, you have/had an access to closed software designed specifically for working with system logs and based on that you piss on everybody who uses what they have at hand on a smaller scale. Or at least this is how I see you
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Kibana and histograms are reporting. [...] you’re doing exactly what I say is > a poor fit, but claiming it’s not your use case. You must be from the species that can predict each and every report before it's needed. Good for y
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The snark is totally unnecessary, since the vast majority of people deploy ELK to do reporting. You shouldn't have used authoritatively universal quantifier. There are plenty of sysadmins who use ES for this case, you apparently j
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by dozzie 9y ago
> ElasticSearch was never really meant for log storage anyway. Indeed, it wasn't designed for log storage, though it happened to match this use scenario well (now less so with every release). > There are far better ways to handle
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by dozzie 9y ago
> My biggest gripe with the 6.0.0 GA is the removal of multiple mapping types per index. ROTFL. And I opened the comments wondering what breaks this time. Every time I hear about a new release, ElasticSearch gets worse and worse option f
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by dozzie 9y ago
For building your software and its deployment you should actually use package manager instead of vendoring and package manager. That is, a binary package manager (e.g. APT or Yum) with properly prepared source packages (ones that never touc
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by dozzie 9y ago
APIs don't work . API is the passive part of a library. Edit: would the downvoters explain to me why stealing an already well-established term API to mean a largely unrelated concept of a service (RPC service) is a good idea?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I'm confused. SGML/XML is capable of representing arbitrary tree structures (with metadata attached to the nodes), is it not? So is ASN.1, but nobody in their right mind would use ASN.1 as a markup language. The sole fact tha
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by dozzie 9y ago
> From an operations standpoint [...] many of the logging statements I'd like to see are pretty routine and let me know that something is actually running as expected. Not to mention that these "everything OK" logs allow t
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by dozzie 9y ago
> it's hard to be much faster than kdb: 10 billion rows completes in 70msec on kdb, but Hadoop takes something like 30 seconds. Indeed, it's hard for exhaustive search beat index lookup.
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by dozzie 9y ago
So the employer doesn't want to disclose the allocated budget in recruitment process and wants the employees not to talk about their salaries, but wants to be able to freely pass the data to random (possibly hostile) third parties? Som
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Would this be likely to hold up in court at all? Ask Oracle customers, they are tied by the same prohibition.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Where "begin" is optional and you can replace both with brackets {}.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [Chalkboards] look nice when they are clean, but as soon as you erase something it ends up being unreadable. Depends on what chalk you use. If you use chalk from chalk (CaCO3), then yes, it's awful, but if you use chalk from gypsu
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by dozzie 9y ago
So every unrelated request that happened to be currently processed is thrown away because of a rare corner case, and with no way to intercept shutdown and save state, flush buffers, or anything. Yes, totally right granulation. Not to mentio
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by dozzie 9y ago
> It's totally understandable for Erlang, where the VM spans multiple machines, so everything is unreliable, but in Go, I take it for granted, that my goroutines won't "just crash". Supervision tree gives a structure
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by dozzie 9y ago
Would you buy a remote that you know can cease to function at a whim of the producer, despite being fully operational from electronics' standpoint?
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by dozzie 9y ago
In other words: "are good sysadmins who can write programs incompatible with software quality?" Unless your "DevOps" means "a dilettante programmer working directly on production servers without sysadmin's supe

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