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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Its creation must have upset a lot of people. Indeed. About the only difference in essence between this and well written contemporary post mortems is that individuals are named. In other words, it's not a "blameless" p
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by peatfreak 8y ago
I agree. I find the writing in this article to be unclear and it's making me very confused.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
Why and how are Bloomberg articles constantly getting to the top of Hacker News? Was there every any resolution to their murky article about their claim that Supermicro mainboards were apparently getting compromised on the production line?
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> To me, "maximum data for the hell of it" isn't about generating insight by looking at trends, it's about generating insight during incident analysis. Agree 100%.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
"Don't do it because it's hard! And you should listen to us because we have the meta-knowledge and experience (now) to know everything there is to know about this topic, plus the bravery to admit in public that we are only h
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by peatfreak 8y ago
Exactly!! If a meeting time is unsuitable I just tell the other person and they almost always agree to move it. Even most manager types (resonable ones anyway) don't schedule non-critical meetings for 9am the next morning.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
Yeah..... I'm not buying into this 100%...... it sounds like typical corporate BS that he is complaining about, and it was his choice to work instead of being with his family during a serious time of ill health. Like others have mentio
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by peatfreak 8y ago
I wonder whether these types of microphones are suitable for field recording.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Noobs are tolerated Sounds enticing!
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by peatfreak 8y ago
I just read one chapter, which I thought was OK. It felt more like a book on how the C programming language translates to operating system concepts, rather than a book about the operating system concepts themselves. For example, the chapt
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Most {net,dev,sec}ops engineers aren't writing blogs. Unfortunately, in my experience this is true. It's not for lack of motivation or desire, it's because my day job is stressful and tiring. The last thing I want to d
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> 2) The blog being in a public Git repository is nice for transparency. The expectation that all your code is on a public repository (I blame GitHub for this) is one of the most horrifying developments in software engineering.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
Yes, I enjoy it too. I did spend a lot of time doing this when I was a student and during my bachelor years.
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Emacs/lisp users always make posts like: "look at this great [thing] to completely simplify [thing]" while simultaneously posting 82 steps to get it all working and automated :) LOL. As a dyed-in-the-wool Emacs user fo
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by peatfreak 8y ago
While we're on the topic of Samsung EVO and Pro SSDs, does anybody know if there's an 870 series of Samsung SATA SSDs coming soon?
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by peatfreak 9y ago
It gets a lot harder to have this attitude when you have a family to support. But meh to that.
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by peatfreak 9y ago
> They are in the right space at the right time I should have made myself clearer by explaining what "space" I was referring to. I wasn't referring to any sort of educational space, I was strictly referring to the abundan
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by peatfreak 9y ago
Cool, thanks. Now at least I have a way to refer to this phenomenon that I know very well.
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by peatfreak 9y ago
I've never heard of this term, and I wonder whether it means what I think it means...?
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by peatfreak 9y ago
They are in the right space at the right time, they have the right image, and they are probably backed up by a hefty amount of good luck (and investment money) to boot. There are a million and one co-working spaces, I've spent a huge
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by peatfreak 9y ago
Thank you for posting this. This is a topic that I've long been fascinated by but never knew anything about. I'm way in the older end of the bell curve of age distribution of Hacker News readers, so I've personally experien
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by peatfreak 9y ago
"At CoreOS, our aim is to arm these companies with the tools to build their cloud services – and run our digital lives – correctly. We’re also dedicated to making it so easy to run these highly complex systems that they take care of th
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by peatfreak 10y ago
This is so depressing.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Awesome! Thanks.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Can anybody recommend good books (other than the SRE Book), blogs, mailing lists, IRC channels, articles, videos, etc, that have SRE as the focus and go into it deeply? For example, I'm looking for forums where you can engage in seriou
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> I always get the feeling that most man pages are written for people who already know how to use the commands, rather than people new to them. This is actually true. In some of the early Unix documentation or an interview (I can't
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by peatfreak 10y ago
As usual, NYT is ON IT. https://twitter.com/NYTOnIt
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Why would you expect it to be easy?
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> That said, I haven't found anything worth leaving Emacs for. Exactly. Every so often I try to make a half-hearted effort to move to a more moderen editor, or even an IDE, but for all its flaws even nothing comes close to Emacs. Vi
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Emacs 19 was a model of low-defect, stable software, and my experiences reinforced that widespread notion. Over time and subsequent major releases, it grew and grew, and the complexity got too big to perform adequate QA, now nearing the poi

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