sed_zeppelin

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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
I was once paged over thirty times in a span of 24 hours while working for a website that, in the grand scheme of things, could unilaterally improve life in the United States by shutting itself down.
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
I wish more devs had the gumption to refuse it. I can understand on-call hours if you're a literal firefighter or paramedic who saves lives. I understand that, as a building superintendent, every once in a long while you have to run ou
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
I just want to jump in as a minority voice here. In case anybody is reading the other comments and feeling... alienated. I refuse to accept on-call duties, full stop. If a job posting expects it, I don't apply. If a hiring manager says
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
Thank you for this facile answer to my genuine question.
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
The Mannheim Steamroller version of "Deck the Halls" Is bloody awful.
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
> I didn't know Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to this song. Man, that's gotta sting. It would Sting more if we were talking about a song like "Fields of Gold."
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
On a whim, I decided to peek at the InfoWars homepage. At this moment, I cannot determine which of the headlines are genuine InfoWars content and which are the product of Onion writers. (I assume it's genuine due to the recency of the
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Ask HN: Those who have burned out on Cloud/DevOps work, what do you do now?
4 points by sed_zeppelin 2y ago|2 comments
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by sed_zeppelin 2y ago
The merging of YouTube and Google identities was an absolute nightmare. I was managing a site that used, I believe it was called "Google Apps for Your Domain" at the time, the predecessor to Google Workspace. Ultimately we disable