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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
There are a couple problems with your post coming from a 50+ year old. * Statistics and probability. * PHD,blog posts, > 2 PL and github in the wild = respectable technical resume. * Badass is as badass does. I work with CS PHDs who are
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Both parents were teachers and spoke strongly against the profession when they retired 15 years ago. My exit/retirement strategy from this IT circus was always teaching but I guess I could revisit that for midnight shift as a DC tech s
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Yes, sorry, there was sarcasm involved.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Google hoopla.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
You are not going to get much love here. But you are right.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
1. useless 50+ unless you enjoy pain and injury. 2. Buy something that is always worth something, take care of it and make enough $$ to enjoy life. Leave something for your family and rainy days. 3. Presentation skills? Communication skills
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
If you have a single core/threaded computer you can only schedule one task at a time and concurrency is an illusion. What this functional language does is mask the complexity involved in SMP systems where state and data are subject to
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Why don't I just keep my data in a database then?
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Welcome to the machine. Glad I'm leaving this industry. It's becoming unrecognizable.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
This sounds like classic devops/cloud snake oil. I wonder what industry pays your bills? * The most businesses/always on reasoning appeals to executive decision makers and rolls down hill to the technical people who are best educa
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Using recipes, pre-built images, automation, and mostly opaque system controllers that abstract away all the underlying detail. That isn't a reliable/secure system and only salesmen and those who have a stake in that model push
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Tools which are basically dumbing down a generation in exchange for efficiency at scale. The day will come when provided with three whiteboxes, install media, switch + cabling -- there will be a lot of nothing going on. Or - better yet: the
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
vi, cvs|svn, C, bash, awk,sed, python and tcl. Linux (rpm based) or FreeBSD. Firefox or lynx. Haven't changed much in 20 years.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
This is generational decay. It happens on schedule. We always forget those who come before us when we can. Now it is extremely easy to do.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
This article illustrates amateur hour in many ways. The whole can't manage my environment and don't understand how to manage the python thing at all has my sympathy. Python is messy at that level. With the organizational 'c
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
So one is user configurable and understandable (leaves much to the user) and the other is a black box that performs magic? One takes some time to understand and make work while the other just does the right thing 85% of the time?
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Well, 'horrible' is subjective. Nobody really talks about the google agenda of replacing all the 'old, unsafe, inferior' tech and methodologies with their own versions and methods. Google wants a world they build and t
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Google: selectively good for goodness sake.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Replied to the previous poster who postulated that containers were the new everywhere. They aren't and they won't be. Serverless is an attractive prospect: Provide a function and lvalues and get a result. Adaptation: You just nee
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
> ...containers*scalable, etc... Depends on your domain. Say you are containerizing nodes sharing KVM hypervisor resources with full VMs. The container application in use is resident on a file served backend, heavily dependent on SQL RDB
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
I guess 20 years as a sysadmin and systems programmer make me a little jaded but you wouldn't convince me to pick up a new VPN based on it being OpenSSH-alike. I'd prefer a pure TLS/SSL or IPSEC solution that fits either para
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Depends on your model. In a small business where you have a couple experts in different domains it makes perfect sense to talk about individual ownership. It's not toxic: it's forced practicality. In larger environments with close
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
We brought a cat inside that was free roaming and an amazing hunter. She was so effective and cruel we couldn't take it. Half eaten lizards, wrens on the wing, a wounded hummingbird. That was it. She's now a fat sleepy lap cat. Go
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Yes, this. The more you use a debugger the more it becomes apparent that C accesses OS protected domain and the best the OS can do is complain and stop you if you aren't smart enough to continue.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
You want a network shared filesystem then design your data for it.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
* routine buffer tweak is soho speak. * defaults don't work esp in mixed nfs 3/4 on linux across mixed 1/10 gb segment subnet boundaries. Try and get back to me. You will DOS your file service. * krb5p standard? First I'
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Well enough isn't good enough for production. Having worked in high volume, highly available environments for years soho scenarios are not good examples. Real world issues with complex NFS environments (mixed nfs3/4 + krb5p and mu
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Lost me at 'story' 5 times in a paragraph. Get rid of the story and get on with the real relation.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
NFS requires long admin experience and tuning for each use case. The only comment I can agree with you on is that the linux automounter is lackluster. We used BSD amd for many years with good success.
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by romeisendcoming 8y ago
Totally disagree. You have to understand how NFS caching effects your application and what kind of performance and security/availability you need. At that point you can make NFS work for you. You also have to make good decisions about

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