nasalgoat

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by nasalgoat 7y ago
I used to hang out on BBSes before the internet. Introverts weren't created by the Internet, they were set free by it.
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by nasalgoat 7y ago
5% of $1M is $50,000. Not exactly pocket change.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Going on 25 years now of being oncall. It's very, very good incentive to make sure the systems are optimized and working nicely. I get a page about once a month, maybe. Because I do my job.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
In my experience with cloud - pushing 8 years now - it's a total fallacy that you can just run without admins. Every time I've come in to clean up a giant mess left by "devops" who were actually just devs who knew nothi
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
I bought all brand-new Dell blade servers so that's probably the main reason it was fine. IP-based kickstart boot, anaconda provisioning, it only took one person to monitor a server's setup. The point is that managing on-prem equ
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Funny, I managed to run a globally-dispersed on-prem system with over 300 individual physical machines (well, blades in racks) with one other guy no problem for many years. I was dealing with four different hosting providers doing remote h
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Well, if your business was in Canada or Europe, you'd have to figure it out. And as a parent who has taken advantage of this, it's worthwhile due to the positive effect it has on the children.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Who's watching the kid the four days you're working? Watching a baby is a full time job.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
My partner worked at a 10-person company and took the year off for parental leave. They hired a temp to fill her role, who left when she came back. I work for a 15-person company and we had a developer take a year off. We hired a temp dev
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Yes, this was reported here as well. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/life-expectancy-canada-decrea...
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
In Canada, you have the option of taking a fixed rate or variable rate mortgage, with the latter offering a more attractive rate (for example 3-year fixed was 3.14% while 3-year variable was 2.85%). You can roll the dice on increasing inter
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Facebook cares deeply about "family values." We had to remove the ability for people to mark their profiles "married" or "in relationship" before they'd let us advertise on Facebook.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
They have a diverse portfolio of crimes to work with. Always something new!
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
If your business model is essentially extortion, you have to wonder about long-term viability.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Hiring managers aren't interested in feeding and clothing you. They want to hire skilled workers to perform a service. The fact you even bring it up is a huge red flag. If you're not getting job interviews when you apply, then yo
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
You appear quite desperate and perhaps this desperation is coming through to the people you talk to and the interviews you do. As a hiring manager I can tell you, desperation is a massive turn-off and red flag. Change your resume as the ot
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Pretty sure most people aren't spending $3,000/month on private school. My kid goes to public Kindergarten which is free. Even in Toronto, which has some of the highest daycare costs in Canada, it was only $1,500/month. Aft
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
I've always been a collector of stuff, but it's always been something that is useful as something other than a knickknack that requires dusting. I used to collect old gaming consoles (Atari 2600, ColecoVision, etc.) but I played
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
CAPEX vs OPEX. Operational expenses looks better on the balance sheet (ie. renting versus owning).
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
I dunno, I tried to hire based on potential, and I just let them go after six months of him failing to grasp even the basics of the job. He did fine in the interviews but ultimately you cannot fake experience.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Wait, PC Magazine is still a thing?
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Hundreds of dollars a month cheaper. Well worth it.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
It's cheaper and much more tuneable.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
What if I simply don't want to wear a fitness tracker? You don't find forcing people to wear mandatory devices a little troubling?
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
If you select the Share option, one of the options on the bottom bar is actually "Request Desktop Site".
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Here's a real world example - I cannot use pg_upgrade because I have PostGIS installed and you cannot use different versions of PostGIS when upgrading, but I cannot install the older version in pg10. We had to go to a slony hack (and p
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
To be fair, their documentation is terrible. Trying to set up filebeat feeding into logstash and figuring out custom GROK patterns requires forensic-level Google-fu to sift through vague blog posts and grab small nuggets from forums becaus
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
I do wish OpsGenie would use Twilio or someone for SMS messaging so I don't get messages from 20 different phone numbers. Makes it very hard to set a custom alert tone. Also, iOS doesn't allow you to set a custom per-app alert so
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
Montreal winters are legendary. Toronto barely even gets snow.
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by nasalgoat 8y ago
I would go as far to say that $120K is exceptionally high for a senior dev and in fact $100K is an upper boundary.

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