Viewing profile — crisper78

Awesome! Kudos for owning your own data and infra! I don't think systems administration is a lost art, people just wanted to do things easier for less money and staff, and no one c…

awesome dude, I have a 10Gbps setup at home too, totally not a waste to use what you love!

I would say they don't mostly suck, everyone of them who I have worked with has opened up doors that wouldn't be open otherwise. Made my salary go way up too! Thanks recruiters you…

it increases the value of my life and many others. Stay home pretty please, I am sure you will be very successful by switching jobs every few months!

So far ive dealt with bullies all my career at every company and i observe then challenge, then challenge again, im 2/3 getting them to quit...no need for hr or threats just be sma…

facebook had me as someone who could fill their quota for 1st rounds etc I sent an email asking them not to do this twice now. It is quite funny though, because every time I bring …

I have about 30 examples, none of which will ever be shared on the Internet!

I'll give you some answers: 1) Carrying an entire 75ft tree in pieces from my backyard to my front yard. 2) 10 hours maybe 3)wood needed to be moved 4) when looking at the pile of …

FAANG's often don't have paying customers, banks do. Its not being stuck between a rock and a hard place, you just need strong management that understands that changing whole syste…

so right, but it won't make you any money or get you any linkedin/twitter fans if you speak the truth. We have AI being tossed around like it isn't just database queries most of th…

When someone says "ex googler" usually during the beginning of a call,I immediately multi-task, let them finish with their chest pounding and move on from them, trying to avoid the…

I remember people pretending to be "skaters" way back, "hacker culture" reminds me a lot of that.

You just didn't have anyone skilled enough to automate those things, or you couldn't manage that. If you are colo you aren't swapping disks/network your colo provider is. Im not ad…

Can you please tell us why? What are you afraid of? I have seen servers up much longer than 2 days, still humming along no memory leaks no whatever you can think of that "rots" on …

Servers go down in AWS too, they are a colo shop with an open source services arm to implement multi tenant services of which you are one tenant yet paying for that multi tenancy s…

My last company, went the dedicated route, had management that understood how much of a ripoff AWS/Azure/GCP was and hired people who know how a lot of apps are built and run, and …