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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   I assume you responded to some dumb comment where some rural no one took a cheap shot at city dwellers. In Pittsburgh it's hilariously easy to tell who from the area hasn't actually been in the city for 10 - 15 years. Mention East
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   Or they die off. Which (having grown up there) is infinitely more likely. Their smart kids leave. The one thing they do that's smart is put all their resources into their 'smart' kids (which may not actually be the smartest o
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   You're using backblaze as a storage medium? ex: https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/fred12/anthony/PgIOufN.mp4
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   I mean, I can write policy documents all day. Most of them would have had a better life as toilet paper.
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   I feel dumber for having read this article. Tbf it’s from the early 2000s but it reads like a nasally academic trying to lecture people who work for a living about theory with little to no practical benefit.
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   That's the connotation, which is why I won't even consider a position billed as 'sysadmin' even if there is a component of it to the job.
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   From a career standpoint sysadmin is a pejorative term in 2019. I'm the 'not feature code' director at a company that manufactures companies. Meaning 20% of my time is what you describe above. This is along side security work
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   Yeah that's incredibly creepy.
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   by whatsmyusername 7y ago

   I mean, I guess I can copy a bunch of unverified AskReddit thread responses, make a website, mix in some javascript, and get a bunch of news.ycombinator karma? Like if OP had gone back and interviewed some of these people and got some valid
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I'd rather chase making the next big thing than the next big hammer.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    It forces you to make products instead of tools. Putting tools behind a paywall is wack.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    And we all get a better product because of it, moving the ship of humanity a little bit further along.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    These responses are just copied off reddit verbatim without validation. I've seen the flight nurse and a couple of others before.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I'm more inclined to spend money on a product that goes out of their way to implement Apple Sign In because I know they're catering to me. It's not going to be the only thing that goes into the equation, but if I have a choic
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I don't work for free.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    You're being facetious but much of the time that's the logic. Flip it around, "Why would I spend resources on you if the chance that you're going to generate a return on those resources is minimal?"
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    'company wide' process is either, 'squeaky wheel gets the grease,' or, 'no one even knows this exists,' 100% of the time in my experience. This is from going from 10k+ to 150 to 5k+ to 50 people.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    shrug COL adjustments between countries is a different problem.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I'm perfectly fine with the $100 I pay to Apple a year the same way I was perfectly find paying :tenbux: to Lowtax to access the somethingawful boards years ago. A fee, even a nominal one, filters 90% of the bullshit. I've impleme
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    This. The problem with decoupling services is usually there end up being a couple services that are critical but not sexy. No one wants to touch them so they sit around unmaintained until an unrelated change or unpatched security issue come
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    > I like things that you set up once and may just forget, that's where real productivity is found imho Very productive, until an unpatched security issue in a dependecy from 6 years ago bites you in the ass.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I actually enjoy peanut butter and honey sandwhichs.
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    by whatsmyusername 7y ago

    I immediately disregarded the authors opinion when they put OVH in the same league as major cloud providers. OVH is a source of nothing but spam/malware/outright malicious traffic from our perspective. We have a job that automatic