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by dvtrn 5y ago
Sure. I'm a Senior SRE, started off my tech career (21 years ago) on a help desk at a law firm, worked up to where I am now through various startups, roles, promotions. It's been my own personal observation in other tech communiti
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Ask HN: Have you ever been “poached” internally? Is this even a thing?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I was once told recruiters did this because they didn't want you reading the email and heading straight to the company's site to apply. I've heard this a few times as well over my career, I wonder what-beyond missing out on
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by dvtrn 5y ago
and probably a great way of finding out you didn't want to work at the high-speed, well funded company you thought you did.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
FTA: When you're operating on the manager's schedule you can do something you'd never want to do on the maker's: you can have speculative meetings. You can meet someone just to get to know one another. If you have an em
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by dvtrn 5y ago
* Most managers are not good managers, however* There it is. I deliberately chose to step back from management and went back to being an IC despite getting feedback from my former direct reports that genuinely almost made this cynical fucke
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by dvtrn 5y ago
”for some reason” Are they the ones having to do this kind of work? Probably not, right? At least in some cases? There’s at least part of the answer. Question in my mind becomes: how do we get the people who aren’t doing this work to unde
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I like this article, and there is a ton of nuisance in the image and how you should choose the appropriate one. By chance, did you mean nuance ? Because while I can agree it you can quickly get into some messy weeds optimizing an image..
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I remember it vividly. Because I had to tell someone not to do it this morning. And twice last week. Few times the month before that. Even configured Exchange to give people a “report suspected phishing” button in their outlook clients. The
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Raises hand First hand statistic attesting to it, watched it happen right before my eyes in a Texas court (except the other kid was being charged with his second DUI).
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I go through this frequently and it's not even due to Facebook, it's just due to having a stupidly common western name. To the point of I have folders, digital and physical full of sworn statements I've had to make, and offic
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by dvtrn 5y ago
My conclusion has been that everyone needs to be devops I used to think this way. But time and time again I found that organizations treated Devops and SRE as either "developer help desk" or "hiring some person to do terraf
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by dvtrn 5y ago
The number of developers who believe that operations is a support channel for development is truly amazing. The amount of engineering leaders that allow it to happen is far more frustrating, at least IMO it is.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
As an SRE, I’m starting to think the misunderstanding of SRE tradecraft is probably more pronounced than the misunderstandings of Devops tradecraft. The risks definitely feel higher. I’m six months into a new SRE role and it really feels li
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Is is generally not-advised to put sanitized dot files and similar configurations into git? That's what I've been doing.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I’m baffled as to how
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I'm afraid not. The brevity of my prior statements was never a suggestion that I had one, so if that's where the confusion you have is coming from, my bad.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Saying "I believe humans have the capacity to change certain habits" isn't close the same thing as saying "I have the means to make people change".
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Amazon in a PR disaster involving corporate greed and avarice? Oh no. Anyway. No really, I would not be surprised if Amazon has several playbooks upon playbooks involving commercials of how Amazon helped some warehouse worker get through co
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Yeah I suppose it's really easy to call this common-sense, it probably should be common-sense. Yet at the same time, if it were common-sense in practice, I probably wouldn't have a job.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
If you go this route, make sure you absolutely know how to, and that you absolutely lock this down. SIP toll fraud is still a problem and if it happens to you, it can get destructively expensive . https://www.twilio.com/lea
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by dvtrn 5y ago
> (But, I use Reaper, so who am I to talk) Reaper is a fantastic DAW, at a great price point IMO. I've had a side hustle for a while now editing podcasts and doing voice overs for a couple of corporate clients (my former job being o
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by dvtrn 5y ago
You may as well tell us that you've decided to take up flying by flapping your arms. How is having and deciding to live by a set of personal principals, even if there isn’t an outcome on “market forces” in any remote way comparable
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Then when they're asked as individuals to put money down for what they asked for, they go silent. This handy trick works for managers too ;) I consider it a fork of the 'wally reflector'. Okay, I'll take my non-sequitu
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Your instructions sound like the description for tiddlywiki.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
instead of snarky-ness, in-group signaling Hugely matter of perspective.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Perhaps. My challenge probably lies in finding out what my requirements are, it sounds like. In the situation I’m dealing with presently, I don’t necessarily need this stakeholder to take any action other than make a decision on two similar
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I think of Steven Covey's "Begin with the End in Mind". This has been a point of struggle lately in my career; I know exactly the source you’re quoting and it’s paid dividends in my own ability to deliver and manage teams w
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I've been seeing them recommended more and more, and myself have been keeping a passive eye on BetterUptime (which has an on-call feature): https://betteruptime.com/incident-management
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by dvtrn 5y ago
do you think it is OK for unions to abuse their power? They are essentially forming monopolies and then using their monopoly power to enforce things. Probably the first time I’ve heard someone describe labor unions as monopolies.

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