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by geekbird 5y ago
I found myself wishing for hip waders to even try to get through part of this self-congratulatory pile of BS. Reading between the lines told me he quit his job, mooched off of friends and girlfriend/wife, then managed to con people int
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by geekbird 5y ago
That reminds me of the web dev space around 2000. Everybody wanted you to be proficient in crap like Front Page and Dreamweaver, or other clunky CMS/IDE combos. I built fast pages and CSS in a text editor, but unless I had their pet to
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by geekbird 5y ago
I've only done one of those nasty psychometric tests once. I didn't get a call back . This wasn't a surprise since they screen out non-neurotypical people with tests that are biased against dyslexia, colorblindnesss, dyscalc
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by geekbird 5y ago
Yeah, even when you are unemployed a 10 hour take-home is a bit abusive. I had to bow out on one take home that would have cost me actual money to set up a development environment with all the ancillary software, plus the three separate pro
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by geekbird 5y ago
I have over 20 years experience, and I've worked for some major companies. I went through a year of interviews with those stupid quizzes. Needless to say, I got nothing from it. A couple places I was perfect for the job, but I couldn&
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by geekbird 5y ago
This. I've slung code in (now) 16 different languages from macros, to scripting to compiled over the last mumbleseveraldecadesmumble. But they throw btree sort hackerrank puzzles at me when I've been a working sysadmin for over 20
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by geekbird 5y ago
People can join a meeting from their own computer in the office. They can still get your social time around the water cooler/break room/foosball table. But I see no reason that I should have to be miserable and come in to the of
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by geekbird 5y ago
Amen. If people like being in the office, fine. I don't understand it, but that's okay. I have ADHD and have a large startle reflex - I hate open plan offices, I dislike commuting, and I get more done from home. If the office peop
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by geekbird 5y ago
That's what I've found: People who like being in the office and socializing want to force me to commute for several hours a day just so they can yak at me, disrupt my concentration, and "see" me work. No thank you. If th
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by geekbird 5y ago
This. I hate open plan offices, I hate commuting, I don't feel the need to socialize in my job. If an extrovert gets energized and inspired by working in an office, great. But don't expect me to do it just because they want compan
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by geekbird 5y ago
This. I will backburner a ticket for days, then when what I need to do comes together I will sit down and bang it out in an hour. It's to the point that I will deliberately review a ticket and code segment every day, even if I'm n
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by geekbird 5y ago
"But I've worked on teams that advocated for microservices needlessly, and it was 100% cargo cult behavior: "Netflix does it, so we should too." I've seen this too, and in fact I got laid off because I pushed back a
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by geekbird 5y ago
This was the original intent of DevOps - a cultural shift that put sysadmins/ops people into the dev team, thus have a better feedback loop between dev and prod, and tear down the wall between dev and ops. But now it's being used
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by geekbird 5y ago
These days DevOps is used as a bludgeon to fire sysadmins and make devs pretend to manage infrastructure. The idea from the corporate viewpoint is to save money by not having anyone to handle systems stuff, just shove into "The CloudTM
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by geekbird 5y ago
The problem is that many people who think that they are 'healthy' without comorbidities that make covid worse are, quite frankly, deluded. "Nearly 40% of American adults aged 20 and over are obese. 71.6% of adults aged 20 and
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by geekbird 5y ago
Maybe they are just not Christian, but still pray in their religion. Maybe they are agnostic and still want to try to have a connection with the divine, but not within an organized religion complete with dogma.
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by geekbird 5y ago
Here, here. I had one person advocate for a new, shiny piece of software by telling me that what we were using was "too old", because it was from 2012. This was the sum of his technical argument. No actual pros and cons, just a
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by geekbird 5y ago
Plus Bash is one basic scripting language that every sysadmin worth their salt knows, even more than sh. There will be religious wars until the end of time about Python vs Go vs Ruby vs Rust vs "The New Hotness". Popular languages
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by geekbird 5y ago
I literally can't get my 1904 Victorian house painted with any of the modern energy saving paint on the outside because the contractors all look at the age of the house and say "that's a lead job" and then can't fin
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by geekbird 5y ago
Yes, and I personally have worked in environments that do just that. They said they didn't, but with management "personalities" plus stack ranking, you know damn well that they did.
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by geekbird 5y ago
> The best way to handle project management is to hire good developers who know how to deliver projects that are build safely and maintainable. The best way to do that is to train your senior devs to act as part time PMs. In an environme
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by geekbird 5y ago
But, unfortunately, scrum has become synonymous with "Agile" in the corporate mind. Everything, including SRE and ops work, gets force-fit into Jira "Agile" (really FrAgile) methods and meeting-heavy rituals. But scrum e
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by geekbird 7y ago
Silence your phone, let it go to voicemail. When he asks why you didn't answer, say "I was sick with a fever and a sore throat. I didn't answer my phone because I was sleeping, trying to get better."
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by geekbird 7y ago
Ugh. I hate the "tone" police. Most of them won't even acknowledge what you say if they don't like your "tone".
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by geekbird 7y ago
Age discrimination in hiring and retention is a real thing. This seems like a systematic way to cover over it to make it look like something else. Smarmy, at best.
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by geekbird 7y ago
Presence based management, colloquially known as "Butts in Seats Management", is the opposite of results oriented management, IMO. I hate it when a company says it's "results oriented", but turns out to be mostly &q
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by geekbird 7y ago
Yes, for me at my current job it would be half a day - an hour plus each way for a ten minute "bankers hours" task.
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by geekbird 7y ago
... and will dump you as "not a fit" if you are over 30.
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by geekbird 7y ago
I am the person who ends up cleaning up after hipster coders, or as I call them "ninja cowboys". They move on to their next high-profile, resume-building gig, and I take their sloppy proof-of-concept that got crammed into producti
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by geekbird 7y ago
I've found that you seldom get any deep level Linux admin training in schools. They all teach fundamentals, the seven layer cake^W OSI model, how http works, stuff like that. If you're lucky, they cover /var/log/mes

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