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On another note, while I admit there are good ADD Resources - many of them are geared towards parents, teachers, kids, doctors. I find resources for adult significantly lacking. An…

Is there a specific podcast, radio or band that you listen to?

Agreed entirely. ADHD is real and should be taken seriously. I've been tested positive by a non-quack in the 90s and again as an adult a few years ago. Building off of this especia…

I wonder, if Microsoft did decided to increase the costs of it's product and services what's the best way to that? To me, that's all that's happening here. And the licenses purchas…

Does anyone know the major departures during Ballmer? I know the original lead for Microsoft Windows Server Manager and MMC.exe literally quit and morale hit the absolutely floor a…

I can't recall but I think many of them were User Interface related and rather specific. Not like the Apple claim of "Rounded Rectangles" but I will admit that it did appear even a…

So, We don't know what data Microsoft is sending back but for whatever reason we've somehow concluded it must be incredibly invasive to the point where it's spyware? If you are tha…

Steve Ballmer, technical bits aside. Just couldn't play as a successful CEO in PR Role. He was too aggressive, abrasive and even somewhat rude. Aside from that, one of thing most a…

Where's that 80% figure? As far as I am aware, the Beats acquisition was successful. They bought their streaming music model and put that into Apple Music.

Yes, this is old as time but it's just now we've starting eating into positions that with a moderate education investment you could have a decent technical career. Now that isn't t…

Capitalism won and in return we got Trump. That doesn't sound like winning.

Look at the cloudification or automation in Windows Products - Windows Updates are pushed through Intune over the internet, Exchange, SharePoint are all through Office 365. Entire …

The author is referring to traditional system administration - this is Windows - SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, SharePoint, VMware Virtualization, Citrix, Networking, etc. SRE or "DevOps" r…

Absolutely not. Look at colleges like Devry or University of Phoenix. Little to no regulation in curriculum, incredibly expensive, etc.

"So I think the apocalypse is double-bladed: while automation kicks a bunch of current workers out by making them immediately redundant, it also freezes out the next generation by …

There are hundreds of thousands of people or System Administrators that have made life long careers out of managing networks, server farms, windows and linux systems since the earl…

As someone who's been in IT over a decade, I am concerned and so many IT folks are going to be blindly hit. Sure, some of them will still have positions the same or similar roles b…

What about the team(s) that manage the underlying PaaS/SaaS Services? Does DevOps or SRE's not exist in this realm?