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by imroot 14y ago
Curious to know how you'd handle small county/town Kentucky, where you can only file the forms in person, and only on Wednesdays. (I've had to deal with this a few times when working remotely for companies in town...) Seriously, though, con
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by imroot 14y ago
I really think that Open Source ERP Software (Adempiere, OpenBravo, OpenERP, and others) have the potential to be a great disruptive force in the land of SAP, QAD, and others. One of my best customers (in terms of contracting work) is an el
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by imroot 14y ago
I've used Google's services from both an end-user at a company who uses Google Apps, and from a IT/Infrastructure Manager who moved his company to Google Apps. For 95% of businesses who don't do a lot of intensive activities (be it scheduli
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by imroot 14y ago
At my last job, I did some evaluation between EC2 and Joyent with a node.js based application. Hands down, Joyent beat EC2 up -- there wasn't an explicit 1:1 correlation anywhere close, as I was seeing the performance with a m1.large go in
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by imroot 14y ago
I've worked remotely for most of my career. I've had companies that didn't care where my 'remote' was (my home, a coffee shop, my farm, etc), but I've had companies get really anal about where my 'remote' was. I'm working a mixed-mode gig n
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by imroot 14y ago
I've actually gone back to a 40 hour work week (as a consultant) after working six months doing 80+ hour work weeks (as a salaried W2, Employee). I'm happier, and healthier (I've dropped 30 pounds since moving into the role). To each their
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by imroot 14y ago
My wife was a full time teacher (she's now working on her Ph.D in educational technologies), and she's said the same thing over, over, and over again. Her first year out of her probationary year was a Kindergarden teacher. She had a girl i
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by imroot 14y ago
During the second-to-last Amazon EBS outage (that affected our RDS instances, I started migrating our database over to Joyent. Before RDS was completely restored, I had a MySQL instance up and running and our production servers pointing to
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by imroot 14y ago
Inmates are commonly referred to by their number in prison -- as far as the prison system is concerned, they're not 'Leland Highsmith,' they're A319445 -- it's tied to their phone calls, commissary purchases, meal records, medicine records,
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by imroot 14y ago
I'm never going to speak negatively about any employer, but, as much as people are crying foul about the editing of the video, what you see in the video is very analogous to the type of person that Austin is in real life. Austin appears to
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by imroot 14y ago
I'm in a bit of a similar situation. My last company didn't have any form of corporate credit, so I purchased everything on my own card and submitted the expenses to be reimbursed. Fast forward to November. I purchased over 8k worth of com
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by imroot 14y ago
I ended up showing the website to my wife (a former K-12 Teacher with a special ed/restraint endorsement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky), who is now working on her Doctorate in Education. Her initial reaction was, "think of how much this
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by imroot 14y ago
If your target audience for this is the individuals who don't have the skills or time to really settle down and do the install by hand, do you honestly think that they have the time (or skills) to set up a throwaway system and then audit th
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by imroot 14y ago
Before I would deploy this, I'd have to really understand what you're doing with your chef recipies -- I would be concerned that your use of chef might throw my system into a unknown state -- specifically, what are you doing in chef? Are y
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by imroot 14y ago
JIRA (And other Atlassian tools) are notoriously bad at scaling. In a previous life, I spent a week pulling a 2,000 user JIRA/Confluence/Bamboo stack off to my then employer's stack -- the site couldn't handle more than 40 concurrent users
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by imroot 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Morehead, KY / Remote RHCA and DevOps Engineering with a fair amount of cloud engineering experience. Former CCNP, Comfortable with EMC and NetApp storage. http://ianwilson.org/
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by imroot 14y ago
I just left an environment that was eerily similar (on a point to point level of the article) a few weeks ago, after management started panicing that their new product (which is a pivot of the code base) was slipping (almost day-for-week in
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by imroot 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Kentucky I'm a RHCA who's looking for a new opportunity. I'd prefer to work remotely, but, I'd consider a local position in the Lexington, Kentucky area for the right company. I have experience with Openstack, Euc
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by imroot 15y ago
If they're looking to hire 1000 people this year, you better hope that their HR and hiring workflows have gotten better than what they were in 2008. I sent my CV to a Sales Engineer in March. First phone screen went well, end of quarter ha
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by imroot 15y ago
Except when you're paying for a product. At $DAYJOB, we use Google Apps, and pay $50/month/user to have google manage all of our mail/document/groups/etc. Problem: Our CEO tried to send an email to a company-wide group, and the group rej
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by imroot 15y ago
The kids are tested every year at a state level that ensures that the student who lives in BFE, Kentucky (where I live) receives the same level of education as a student in a medium sized town and both students learn the same things that a
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by imroot 15y ago
Actually, in the district where my wife works, both gifted kids as well as children who have emotional and behavioral disorders are placed in the "Special Education" department. She does half a day doing "Pull-Out" special ed, where she'll
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by imroot 15y ago
It's not that teachers don't like Creative Students -- my wife is a K-12 Special Ed teacher working on her Ph.D -- but that the educational system doesn't know what to do with students who do not fit into their state-provided lesson plan.
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by imroot 15y ago
I would support OSX more if I could get better support from Apple. I have two identical MBP's in my office -- and following the same steps, one joins the AD Domain, and the other one refuses to join the domain. Apple's support? Clueless,
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by imroot 15y ago
I'm not completely sure that I agree. While this might be great for small startups, once you get past the growth of needing more than a few dozen servers, your cloud and other computing costs are going to be exponentially higher than what
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by imroot 15y ago
This was during a call I was on with their Marketing team when the company that I was working for planned to do a mini sub-site within slashdot to extol and display the features of their newest product line. I don't believe it is public re
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by imroot 15y ago
If you've followed the lifespan of VA Software, OSDN, OSTG, GeekNet...I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone. http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&... ; Slashdot built the community that a lot of people
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by imroot 15y ago
Not really surprised there. I've worked for both CEOs of SourceForge and Collabnet (the software that I worked with, SourceForge Enterprise Edition was purchased by CollabNet in 2007). CollabNet's CEO seems to think that Subversion will c