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by geggam 8y ago
The things this article mentions are pretty much required to get anyone to work for you in the valley. When the games and snacks disappear or start getting reduced its time to polish the resume
692.
by geggam 8y ago
The fact it takes a team of highly skilled engineers from the top of the talent pool trying to make it easy should tell you perhaps the design is wrong ?
693.
by geggam 8y ago
worked at a company with 4 Petabytes on NFS ... FWIW
694.
by geggam 8y ago
When the job is managing Linux systems and colleges arent producing people who know how there is a problem
695.
by geggam 8y ago
Friends on facebook doesnt mean friends in real life. Most peoples circle is less than 50.
696.
by geggam 8y ago
That 150 miles assumes certain things. Like not towing 8,000lb plus loads around in less than ideal traction. Your mileage on a farm can sometimes be several gallons to the mile.
697.
by geggam 8y ago
Sysadmins used to be able to compile a kernel and some could even hack a kernel module together. Today ? Not happening.
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by geggam 8y ago
I expect you to know fundamentals about things like TCP networking and how to install, configure and manage Linux Distributions. I find many people who can install Ubuntu and run the canned commands or curl foo.sh | sudo bash or docker &#x2
699.
by geggam 8y ago
Did the interviews in Silicon Valley. MIT UCLA Stanford Berkley are some of the grads I interviewed.
700.
by geggam 8y ago
This. Competence is reducing per capita. The market is saturated with IT people who dont know what they are doing
701.
by geggam 8y ago
Interviewing college graduates is depressing. No way the current education system will create people competent enough to keep this going
702.
by geggam 8y ago
Completely agree with this. There is something to think about. The folks who are running things are plentiful right now but as this churns we will run out of folks who understand the lower layers well enough to manage it. As I interview peo
703.
by geggam 8y ago
Point being there is no quick fix to running out of juice.
704.
by geggam 8y ago
My current truck is an 01 and has been paid off for over 15 years :)
705.
by geggam 8y ago
I have a ford ranger from 1998 and a mazda b3000 from 2000. Both are stick shift and have over 250k miles on them No I am not selling them even though parts are starting to get hard to find
706.
by geggam 8y ago
Agreed. However your battery will die very quickly and leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. I had to take a couple home who were on the side of the mountain coming home from half moon bay to the pennisula. The gauge told them they h
707.
by geggam 8y ago
Its not viable for most of the country truck uses. Charging stations would have to be immediate and portable. Being 3 miles out in the fields and having battery go dead because you were pulling something would be damned inconvenient
708.
by geggam 8y ago
Here in AZ the unimproved roads require truck level clearance
709.
by geggam 8y ago
When buying reserved instances ( 3 year reserved ) the normal 400k spend was doubled to 800 thousand that month
710.
by geggam 8y ago
Was at a startup around 2k nodes in AWS. Bill was over 400K on average a month. When purchasing RI I saw 800K a month.
711.
by geggam 8y ago
At scale you need to move out of the cloud. Once you hit a certain point there is no economic gain.
712.
by geggam 8y ago
So you prefer the BSD licensed software ?
713.
by geggam 8y ago
If you are living in Silicon Valley and not independently wealthy you are desperate to work. The cost of living there demands it.
714.
by geggam 8y ago
Since when did life become fair ?
715.
by geggam 8y ago
Your idea of well defined and mine are somewhat different :)
716.
by geggam 8y ago
The decoupling of services is the trend of microservices. Systemd is merging many previously decoupled systems to manage them and provide a platform for decoupled services. Seems ironic to me is all
717.
by geggam 8y ago
because configuring and managing systems in C seems suboptimal ?
718.
by geggam 8y ago
You just need a bigger monitor. I hooked a 4k 42 inch LCD to my laptop and for the first time ever I had visible desktop space
719.
by geggam 8y ago
Developers make terrible system managers usually.
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by geggam 8y ago
Surely you enjoy the irony of the move to microservices and isolation when merging so many functions into init ?

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