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by nigelk 14y ago
If you've got 2-factor set up on your Google account, you'll get prompted for it when you set up Google Drive.
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by nigelk 15y ago
Work/Life balance is very important to us. Lots of us here at Puppet Labs have young families, and being flexible in that regard is really important. Living in Portland helps a lot too. I moved up from the Bay Area and my previous job becau
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by nigelk 15y ago
It is easy to fall into the trap of imagining all enterprise environments are like your own, and even when "special snowflake syndrome" is based on a false assumption, there are huge differences globally in terms of dominant OSes, even if y
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by nigelk 15y ago
I can't always map Hacker News personas to people on the list :) so anyone, please feel free to ping me directly about this sort of thing: nigel@puppetlabs.com
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by nigelk 15y ago
I absolutely agree. Not being able to externalize data has had a huge effect upon sharing modules. Our plan for the next major release of Puppet this year is to integrate Hiera deeply into Puppet in a more native manner. http://projects.pu
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by nigelk 15y ago
Thanks for the positive words. I'm not going to pretend we've got the Free Software business model perfectly sorted either. We're producing proprietary software as well as developing/curating open source software projects, and there is a ba
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by nigelk 15y ago
Those are all good points, and we know the layout needs to improve. I would add though that once you've gone through the basics, you find yourself primarily living in the Type Reference, which is arranged alphabetically. http://docs.puppet
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by nigelk 15y ago
"The business model of the companies promoting Puppet and Chef seems to be to charge for support and/or hosted services. Which is fine. But is it leading to abysmal documentation?" This is one of the reasons we're moving Puppet Labs from be
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by nigelk 15y ago
We (Puppet Labs) take interns from PSU and have hired pro services engineers from there.
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by nigelk 15y ago
Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear there. From the viewpoint of interviewer and hirer rather than interviewee, I thought the process was better than anywhere else I've worked. I liked the expected level of rigor, I liked the decisions being
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by nigelk 15y ago
My hiring process at Google was reasonably long and rigorous, but it certainly wasn't a horror story. I left about six months ago, and while there were things I didn't like about the hiring and interview process, it was still significantly
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by nigelk 16y ago
It was both. If you read the various news reports closely, you'll see one vector was the 0-day IE vulnerability, another was malicious payloads in PDFs. The headlines haven't helped. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144844/Hackers_u
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by nigelk 16y ago
Puppet Labs is trying to rock the DevOps/Sysadmin world with our model-driven approach to config management. We're based in Portland, OR, and aren't looking for remote workers as yet. We're looking for both Core Developers and Pro Services
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by nigelk 16y ago
When I was there it was standard practice to use a privacy screen when at conferences or travelling, and they were delivered to your desk for free if you asked. Some people just don't use common sense though.
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by nigelk 16y ago
I'm on an H1B with a startup after being on an E-3 for a few years with a much larger company. We have other E-3 employees as well. http://www.puppetlabs.com/company/jobs/ Ultimately you need to make a judgement call when hiring. Is the p