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by scottm01 12y ago
Maybe Wall Street is made up of "grunts" who understand the value of cash and properly discounts the promise of paper profits later! That said, like earlier posters I can only budget around my base salary. I would of course prefe
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by scottm01 12y ago
Amazon's cloud player was the first music locker I tried (I believe in the US it predated Spotify along with google music and certainly icloud/itunes integration). I keep forgetting to cancel my prime account, so I thought I&#x27
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by scottm01 12y ago
Maybe as a common mistake, I read a number of "management" books before accepting the promotion. The one that stuck with me was Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. That is much more people skills and some planning. Budgeting seems
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by scottm01 12y ago
I was probably a bit negative with that reply (though I do think "X is our best engineer, let's have them manage others to make them more like X!" is far too common). I'm enjoying the new (now 2 year old) role but there
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by scottm01 12y ago
I'd go a step further and answer the question "What are some common mistakes new managers make?" with "Accepting a promotion to management". If you're coming from a technical role, understand that your new job
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by scottm01 12y ago
Primarily from it's integration with provisioners (Puppet, Chef, etc, even inline shell commands), it's folder share support and the conventions you get that make it easy to build a sane lifecycle around (vagrant up, vagrant suspe
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by scottm01 12y ago
I happen to have cable again because it was a very nominal increase over cable modem only and because I don't get a very good OTA signal from our apartment. Prior to this move though, I'd done without cable for ~5 years. I got ML
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by scottm01 13y ago
This does seem like a PR department writing rather then security researcher. Calling out AWS credentials seems to be particularly trolling, they just happen to be the secrets that were easiest to grep for I guess.
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by scottm01 13y ago
Agreed, I own a roku and a chromecast, there is literally nothing here that makes me regret either, and nothing that would make me choose the Fire TV over AppleTV if I did want to be tied closer to one ecosystem. I guess I'm bummed tha
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by scottm01 13y ago
When relocating from NYC to San Francisco a couple years ago I similarly tried to minimize the number of trips. I tried to be very thorough in phone screens to make sure that they were intersted in me and I was interested in them. After th
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by scottm01 13y ago
I agree the paid catalog is nice and am generally happy buying content from Amazon over other choices. Ignoring selection, Amazon does a _much_ worse job at actually streaming content then Netflix. I subscribe to both (for now, I likely wi
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by scottm01 13y ago
We got a letter from them yesterday. My wife was insured by them over 2 years ago, but apparently still had her data sitting on some staffers laptop. In 2008, they lost another 300,000 peoples data the same way, but of course they "ta
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Horizon BCBS loses laptops with PII (including SSNs) of 840,000 people. Again.(nj.com)
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by scottm01 13y ago
Brett Slatkin gave a nice talk at this years Velocity on Perceptual Diffs and potential benefits of integration with a continuous deploy process. http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/public/schedule/detail&#x2
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by scottm01 14y ago
As to the problem... Let's assume that they're not going to make major policy decisions based on just this one show and instead that it's a ramp up of what started with Lillehammer. We'll see them putting out content more and more frequen
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by scottm01 14y ago
The iPhone 5 is $649 unsubsidized, not $699. Other features aside (some of which it lacks compared to Nexus), it does have an LTE radio and works on, say, Verizon. Source: Someone who just paid full boat for a 5 after my Droid Charge was d
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by scottm01 14y ago
Agreed, I am all for making exercise a habit (and get grumpy when something makes me miss a workout, so I need to be better at simply making it a near top priority). That said, please don't buy bottled water every day. Get a reusable bottl
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by scottm01 15y ago
Kryptonite.
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by scottm01 15y ago
Much nicer, thanks. I've just shared a circle (to that circle) of everyone listed as of a few minutes ago.
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by scottm01 15y ago
Puppetlabs has certainly stepped up their marketing; 6-8 months ago you could have flipped the words puppet and chef in your post and it would have been completely true. I'd argue puppet is winning any time there are operations staff, chef
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by scottm01 15y ago
Shortly before I started managing engineers I read "Managing Humans" (I'd already been following http://www.randsinrepose.com/ ) and found it helpful. One of the best resources I found was (luckily) my own boss. Find others in a similar
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by scottm01 15y ago
NJ and Wisconsin as a comparison? Your friends in NJ probably work in NYC (or one of the close in northern NJ cities). Run a cost of living calculator, we're just as bad off (: If they're out in the middle of the state they're probably not
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by scottm01 15y ago
While I agree with you providers obviously have been unable to avoid "long-tail black swan events" (awesome phrase!), and that too many businesses and users jump to the cloud without actually understanding their architecture, availability d
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by scottm01 15y ago
My wife is a teacher and completely agreed with your research. She'd never use it (fear of losing protections using anything outside school-required communications; desire to not increase coddling students with constant reminders; etc), bu
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by scottm01 15y ago
No, I'm suggesting that in my experience Dell operates more like what you're proposing then what you're originally describing. I get (generally) transparent pricing, flexibility, and the servers show up at my datacenter next week as ordere
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by scottm01 15y ago
This is certainly the right move for google, facebook, etc, and maybe even for startups who for some reason want to avoid the cloud and run their own couple of one-off servers. For the rest of us in the great middle, direct from manufactur
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by scottm01 16y ago
I suppose april fools is the reason we've gotten so far through this discussion that only scattered mentions of fabric or puppet/chef? I've certainly done my share of ssh in a for loop, but if you're seriously considering this you almost ce
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by scottm01 16y ago
Manhattan, NY Nature Publishing Group is hiring a junior/intermediate sysadmin to join a small team supporting nature.com. Must have experience with a public facing, revenue producing complex web site. Small friendly team, lots of latitud
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by scottm01 16y ago
NYC Nature Publishing Group (www.nature.com, www.scientificamerican.com) is hiring a systems administrator. Linux, J2EE+rails apps, memcache, marklogic, puppet, zenoss, etc. The posting will be up shortly at http://www.nature.com/npg_/wor