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by karlkatzke 13y ago
HN, and many of the technical writers covering this story, are missing out on a major subtext of this story. I'm on my phone, so I can't cite my source, but look at the actual quotes from NSA staff. They're not laying off 90%
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
"I wish I achieved more" -- said a large number of people as they died.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I disagree. He cuts them a break: he gives them the opportunity to interview. It's up to them to make something of it by proving they have practical experience.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I can only speak to US-based IT jobs, but there's a really distinct problem with the industry here. There is a decent supply of bright young things coming out of school who don't know things, but know that they don't know thi
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Have you ever worked for a government in IT? If it's anything like the government job I used to have, they have all the equipment and policies in place to prevent breaches and data leaks, but it's poorly maintained or implemented.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Other people can see and work with a remote development server. If you're pair programming or having a consultant or friend help you debug something tricky, you can set up screen sessions with just an ssh login instead of having to set
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Fun fact: MS has spent more on W8 and Surface marketing than it has made on the Surface. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microsoft-surface-revenue-853-m...
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
They include Perl, but do they include a Perl that is compatible with and has been tested with the code that you're trying to run?
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
If you have the desire to build something and you need a sabbatical, have you considered a volunteer service trip of some sort? It need not take you out of the country; I haven't looked recently, but last time I was considering somethi
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
From the same buried comment: "Describing '5 minute accidental blackhole route leakage' as 'Multiple banking addresses hijacked' makes for a better and more sensational head line. I fully understand if you must blow
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
We've run into the /dev/random problem when doing heavy SSL traffic. We had to pipe in sources of entropy. It was a janky solution, but wasn't as janky as it might sound.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I've ended up in this situation too. We migrate between datacenters with duplicate hosts fairly frequently at my primary place of employment, and best practice is to use the cname of the service to access the server currently acting as
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Not correct that they were probably copied from the image itself. See other posts about cloud-init.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I really like the look of the app and I like the concept. I'm not sure I'd use it enough to make the monthly cost worth it when there's codecademy, khan academy, and many, many other sites where you can gain the same learning
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Me three. Although I didn't think of the Big Bang Theory connection, I thought of Apple's Siri and wondered if it was some sort of fan art with a mildly nsfw theme.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
This is the biggest reason that I hate all of the "go fast and break things" culture around here. There has to be a balance, but big names and investors don't seem to be encouraging them.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
houk got most of the answer. The other answer is that ops, unlike dev, still gets to do things the fast way if it makes sense. So if it's faster to hit up and enter a bunch of times? Do it. Dev doesn't get to make that decision mo
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I'm a sysadmin who used to be a coder. I know a lot of people who have gone in either direction. The reason I stopped coding is that I got into it to solve problems, but I got tired of spending what felt like 90% of my time writing uni
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
We're hiring developers (Among other things). POSSIBILITY OF REMOTE (within US), but not guaranteed. Offices in Austin, Indianapolis, and north of Miami. Ruby and PHP with Postgres & Oracle. New projects may use Big Data, but a
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Funny. I use gin to remove memories.
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I keep getting headhunted for positions in the bay area. I keep saying no. Founders and recruiters can't seem to understand why -- as if it has never occurred to them that someone would turn down an offered interview based solely on locatio
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
I'm finding it intensely amusing that most of the people around here don't realize that there are pay-for-use botnet services out there, that they are the most likely people that will own your server, that they're continuously on the leadin
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
It's a huge thing. KrebsOnSecurity covers a lot of the news in that industry, and discusses how they're used. http://krebsonsecurity.com/
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by karlkatzke 13y ago
Issue: What about VPN? If you're connecting to your corporate network with OpenVPN, and you are restricted to one connection (common sense security policy) then you need to get your infrastructure team to issue you a separate key for each V
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by karlkatzke 14y ago
I see this flying about as well as blades do. There's reasons to use blades, but a 42U stack of pizza boxes with a commodity interconnect (even 10gbps) is almost always cheaper than a single blade center.
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by karlkatzke 14y ago
Sun currently builds systems like this in the high end of it's M range. (M8000, M9000) I'm sure that IBM and everyone else make them as well.