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by vogelke 3y ago
Sounds a lot like working with the US Air Force, unfortunately.
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by vogelke 3y ago
"Fatherland" by Robert Harris, 1992. Alternative history detective novel set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II. "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. I re-read this every 4-5 y
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by vogelke 3y ago
My main reasons: - because I can, and - because I can't pick my family.
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by vogelke 4y ago
Maybe knowing when a particular OS went off the rails or did something deeply stupid will come in handy one day when you're writing an app to scratch an itch. Way better to avoid a mistake someone else already made.
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by vogelke 5y ago
r/commandline r/sysadmin r/datacurator r/datahoarder Surprisingly good signal-to-noise ratios for all of them.
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by vogelke 6y ago
I don't care much about the flight, just about getting over the jetlag at the destination. What worked for me: power through the first day on the ground. Go to sleep when the clock says you should, NOT when your body does -- you'l
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by vogelke 6y ago
Location: Beavercreek, OH Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: 33 years experience as Unix/Linux system administrator -- Solaris up thru 11, RHEL/Centos Linux, FreeBSD v6-11, sh/ksh scripting, lots of Perl experi
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by vogelke 6y ago
Not Cliff, but I remember BLISS from early '80s Air Force work. It's the only thing I know that could beat compiled Fortran for things like signal processing. That code absolutely flew.
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by vogelke 6y ago
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0932633420/ The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg Written in 1971, and still completely relevant. Topics include egoless programming, intelligence, psychological
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by vogelke 7y ago
Location: Beavercreek, OH - Authorized to work in the US for any employer Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - UNIX System Administrator, Wright-Patterson AFB, Sept 1988 to Present - DB: Postgres installation, Oracle ba
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by vogelke 7y ago
> What in particular have you found success with that helps? * I bought two bathroom mats from Krogers, wrapped them around the arms of my office chair, and duct-taped them in place. Looks like hell, feels soft and cushy. * I bought a b
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by vogelke 8y ago
Could you provide a link to that transcript?
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by vogelke 8y ago
Facebook: We can do whatever we like. UK: No, you can't. This totally works for me. If FB doesn't negotiate in good faith, strong-arm is exactly what's called for.
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by vogelke 9y ago
> Why doesn't the federal government just have a big database? Because that tends to end very badly. I've been in Fed MIS systems since I joined the USAF in 1981, and it's the same just about everywhere except for a few o
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by vogelke 10y ago
Articles like this are embarrassing. Here's how to fix the schools: 1. When a parent withdraws their kid from a school that's not doing the job, the parent's money GOES WITH THEM to whatever other school they ultimately cho
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by vogelke 10y ago
You are 100% right. I've worked for Uncle Sugar since 1981 as an AF officer and a contractor, and after seeing the way money gets spent, you're better off burying it in a fruit jar in your backyard than giving it to the governmen
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by vogelke 10y ago
I wrote about why I like being a sysadmin after 29 years on Reddit about 2 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5omi1n/ One of the biggest things that kept me from burning out was reali
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by vogelke 10y ago
One of the best books I've ever read on why the war on drugs is a bad idea. It's written by a UK cop who was there nearly from the beginning. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Cop-Bad-War/dp/1785032690&#x