togusa

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by togusa 11y ago
It's pretty common knowledge. My grandfather, a German conscript in WWII, used to boast about how fucked up they got on amphetamines (stolen, prescribed) leading to psychosis to the point they were discharged and ordered to drive food
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by togusa 11y ago
Three hours pissing around trying to delete something from s3 with powershell from windows task scheduler today agrees with you :(
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by togusa 11y ago
I'd go for a few agency jobs for a 2-6 month stint, be nice to people and spend your time working with them not alongside them and gain some reputation. After a couple of positions, return work is usually possible. Then general staff t
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by togusa 11y ago
I'm a contractor/independent currently contracted to a financial company and a telecoms company concurrently. I have about 18 years' experience in total and have been on the contract market for 12 years. The things that matte
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by togusa 11y ago
Perhaps ironically I responded to your question before you wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352361 I have no hatred for anyone. Just you need to intimately know who you pays your bills at the end of the day.
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by togusa 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm not saying Google or Apple for example are any better here. Even RedHat who I also deal with have their problems.
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by togusa 11y ago
Good question. Thanks to them, I paid mortgage off in under a decade. No other reason.
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by togusa 11y ago
I'm an MSDN subscriber, write C# all day and am sitting in front of Win8.1, writing this in IE11 with a Lumia 640 next to me. They are still utter bastards and I sleep with one eye open. Currently the tally of bad stuff is pretty high:
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by togusa 11y ago
When I had a Mac I used Carbon Copy Cloner to image the disks solving that entire problem. It creates bootable backups then which you can restore to exactly the original state. Time machine was a veritable pain in my arse on numerous occasi
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by togusa 11y ago
Bollocks.
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by togusa 11y ago
Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.
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by togusa 11y ago
NTFS is only a turd on lots of small writes. It really flies on reads.
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by togusa 11y ago
Hadn't noticed that. Thanks for the pointer :)
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by togusa 11y ago
I haven't RDPed into a server for at least a year. Do everything with WinRM and powershell remoting and DSC. All our kit is 2012 R2 core. It does suck on a server though big time.
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by togusa 11y ago
(iwr "http://Slashdot.org").Links | select href Nearest Unix equivalent please.
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by togusa 11y ago
You're right, which is why I use all three platforms regularly.
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by togusa 11y ago
I know. However it's buggy on windows and painful for deploying windows VMs on (with packer).
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by togusa 11y ago
It's all there, just different. PowerShell = bash, Chocolatey = homebrew, Windows Server Containers = docker, Hyper-V+powershell = vagrant, DSC = ansible etc etc. I don't use Windows 10 for reference though. Still on 8.1 until the
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by togusa 11y ago
That looks like it might actually hit the spot to replace my old ThinkPad X-series.
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by togusa 11y ago
Not at the moment. I've got a ton of stuff I probably could publish however.
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by togusa 11y ago
It's a library I wrote. The time breaker is actually quite complicated. It is a wrapper that sets up some global parameters on the thread for timeouts on async/await calls and handles the timeout conditions. It integrates with our
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by togusa 11y ago
It's a real library I wrote. I just noticed I missed the brackets. Quick example you can infer the rest from: Code: public static class IntegerExtensions { public static TimeSpan Minutes(this int val) {
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by togusa 11y ago
Most of the runtime needs in this space can be managed with circuit breakers without having to provide separate processes or memory spaces, be they temporal or resource based. For example your regex, could be given 20ms to run and use a max
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by togusa 11y ago
Indeed. I remember reading that back then!
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by togusa 11y ago
I'm in the middle of a microservices mess than was forced upon us. I have nothing positive to say. If you're in the SaaS space already and it's not a greenfield project, it's orders of magnitude better to deploy lots of