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by geekbird 4y ago
Yeah, I've seen stuff carved into tiny, fragile microservices when the number of nodes was under ten. Stupid, IMO, and it took a stable service and made it a flaky mess. It was done because of dogmatic "It must be in containers in
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by geekbird 4y ago
Actually, a lot of the people new to DevOps who come from the Dev side don't know the Linux internals. All they know is TF/CF, k8s, Docker and either AWS or GCP. If you asked them to set up a raid array they'd look at you lik
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by geekbird 4y ago
Here's the thing that irks me about things like "standing up k8s in a couple hours": It's something that only gets done a few times for an entire project - once or twice in dev and test, then again in prod. Not even a fe
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by geekbird 4y ago
Even if you swallow the argument that a fetus is a "person", you still have to temper the rights of the fetus who is a parasite on the mother, who is a living, breathing person with rights of her own, including "life, liberty
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by geekbird 4y ago
If you need a demigod and a book of fiction to tell you not to lie, cheat and kill then you aren't a very good person underneath. Morality and ethics are not the exclusive purview of Christianity, or even religion in general. Atheists
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by geekbird 4y ago
What is allowing the mother to die because abortion is against the law but "post birth" abortion? Or do you think that the lives of women already born should take a back seat to the potential life of a fetus?
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. I accidentally ate 1/4 of a 100mg THC chocolate bar, but it was not the right hybrid to keep me asleep, so I was in and out for hours. 25 mg is more than twice my preferred THC dose.
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by geekbird 4y ago
This. I know a lot of people who need to just ... stop. They always have to be busy, doing something "productive" or "beneficial". They don't take time to just be , to stop and smell the roses. My problem with slee
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by geekbird 4y ago
When I was in college I tried weed. It was not a recreation for me, it just put me to sleep, a couple hits and I was out on the couch. So I never got into it. Fast forward a few decades. I now have chronic insomnia due to things like on-cal
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by geekbird 4y ago
This. Premature and excessive fragmenting into unmaintainable and operationally microse5rvices is the bane of my existence. It's often done by zealots, who see microservice architecture as a matter of religious faith, not operability c
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by geekbird 4y ago
This. Develop the logic and flow for all of the thing, make it big, code it simple and even redundant, but really basic and simple. That's your "proof of concept". Pass two is finding and factoring out all of the redundant st
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by geekbird 4y ago
What's worse is that they want full-on programming, leetcode, algorithm mashing for jobs that end up being nothing more than slinging yaml or json and maybe tweaking a Jenkins job. That's the reality of DevOps - it's not prim
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. I applied for one position who asked what I wanted, then told me that the top of their range was $5K less than my minimum, was I still interested? LOL, no. My minimum is my minimum now, no dropping it for a hard luck story or com
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by geekbird 4y ago
This also includes being very, very, very upfront on whether your "remote" is: a) real, honest 100% remote, b) 100% remote unless you are within X miles of the office, in which case it's hybrid, c) hybrid that your managem
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. I've been doing Linux Systems work for over 20 years. I've written code at one level or another on over 15 languages (scripting, macro and compiled) plus various forms of markdown. 90% of it I learned on the job, even o
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by geekbird 4y ago
I've found some companies are so process bound that they'll go the full set of interview, test, coding rounds even for a personal referral. I have over 20 years of experience, and then they wonder why I start laughing when they st
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO, most engineers massively under-estimate the time it takes to do "simple" tasks if you don't already have the infrastructure/environment set up for it.
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by geekbird 4y ago
I had one take-home "4 hour" assignment that required me to install two different, poorly documented, third party packages on my computer before I could even begin to write the code. The Java-loaded piece of junk that I needed did
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by geekbird 4y ago
LOL! I have worked for a large, well funded, private non-profit university with many millions in its endowment funds. They are probably one of the biggest cheapskates I've even worked for when it comes to IT spend. If it doesn't b
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by geekbird 4y ago
It might be a nice business for someone to put together "eduTube" - a video platform for educational institutions. It would have a annual fee per organization based on size. It would: * allow archiving, or display with sunset on
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by geekbird 5y ago
Seriously. I'm not an actual software developer, I do systems admin and DevOps config whacking. If I have to bring up an IDE to write something I'm waaaaay out of my wheelhouse. I don't touch JS, React, Java or any of that st
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by geekbird 5y ago
That's the problem. Assets can't commit a crime. They aren't people, or even corporations. Yes, maybe a court will determine after conviction that $XX is ill-gotten gains and require the convicted defendant to turn over
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by geekbird 5y ago
WTF? Suuure, "up to" one million, but over what time period? Technically $100k/year for 10 years is one million.
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by geekbird 5y ago
That's why I told my manager at an Amazon subsidiary that performance reviews were a farce. Because they were. I was burned out, and seeing all too clearly what a shit show it was. I got a layoff in April.
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by geekbird 5y ago
Yep. This creates a lateral sabotage, work stealing and kiss up culture.
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by geekbird 5y ago
You would have been PIPed and sacked in April.
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by geekbird 5y ago
I have worked at a subsidiary, and other companies worse than Amazon. Imagine if, instead of annual reviews are required to put 5% at the bottom of a stack rank and then "manage them out", you have quarterly stack ranks, where eve
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by geekbird 5y ago
So, my roomie is an ex barista. She only does pour over coffee with a Melitta cone and filter. (My wife like K-cups, but they need filtering to get the grounds out.) We have an electric kettle, which we just had to replace because the 15
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by geekbird 5y ago
When I write process/operating docs, I write it for the person who is on call, at 02:00 Sunday morning, after overindulging in alcohol Friday night. I don't assume stupid, just not firing on all cylinders due to being half awake a
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by geekbird 5y ago
Seriously. I hate "video tutorials" on how to do technical stuff. I read faster than videos can explain stuff, and with text I can go back and forth to the stuff I need without trying to forward and reverse a video to a certain ti

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