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fulminatorz68
9y ago
I can write kernel patches. Any good SA >= 10 years with C can. And we don't because it is a symptom we notice and not the problem and we are interested in a fix only as a way to survive till the cure. Kudos to the rest of your pos
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9y ago
Very hard to teach. How are you guys doing it? I'm trying unix bash shell scripting which I picked up at the age of 29 pretty easily and felt like I could do useful things repeatably in 4 months? My programming origin was trs-80 and ba
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9y ago
I'd suggest your experience|expertise is lacking. My first couple of months were bad but then I learned to appreciate the expressiveness and facility of even a bad shell language and the open horizon of how things were done. This comme
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fulminatorz68
9y ago
I'd suggest the same (perspective) to you. I understand fully what you are trying to say but this world is not about pity and never has been. It is about making the best of things and helping who you can as you can while remaining sane
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fulminatorz68
9y ago
No, I wouldn't (having developed since 1995) but I will state that having dealt with multi-platform builds and development for bsd and linux + darwin (until recent iterations of macos) that solaris is a pitfa, just as much as macos, an
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9y ago
Who actually uses these glorified IDEs? No one I've hired.
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9y ago
Never. You have sufficient expertise to make the solution work and enough exposure to the code base to modify core if necessary. Oracle: never an option.
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9y ago
I'd see only the pain of migrating applications and learning new administration tools. Solaris was dead long before oracle killed it -- to me.
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9y ago
This culture of optimization and mutation is pretty out of control.
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9y ago
Hard to make $$ in a country that worships established wealth without getting into the old boys club. You can make great money with a good idea but working two jobs for 170K gets old.