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Re: Zed Shaw has Left Dropbox

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Post by zedshaw »

jrockway wrote: post #3

My dream of having Zed come to an interview where the interviewers all have their feet up on the conference table is this much closer to coming true!

Oh that'd be funny as shit. Actually, I've gotten used to it. Seems to be just a damn stupid signifier that you're a start up guy.

Re: Zed Shaw has Left Dropbox

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Post by zedshaw »

alnayyir wrote: post #4

>If you got something interesting that doesn't involve me being a system administrator Is it me, or is this a running meme/problem for him?

No it's not you, I do get asked to be a sysadmin quite often. I have no idea why. It's not something I'm good at. I did for a short time in college to pay tuition a decade ago. I don't enjoy it. I never apply for it. For some bizarre reason, people ask if I want to be a sysadmin out of the blue. Drives me crazy.

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Post by starkfist »

zedshaw wrote: post #6
alnayyir wrote: post #4

>If you got something interesting that doesn't involve me being a system administrator Is it me, or is this a running meme/problem for him?

No it's not you, I do get asked to be a sysadmin quite often. I have no idea why. It's not something I'm good at. I did for a short time in college to pay tuition a decade ago. I don't enjoy it. I never apply for it. For some bizarre reason, people ask if I want to be a sysadmin out of the blue. Drives me crazy.

It's not that bizarre, you write software mainly used by systems administrators. I used to work with one of the guys who wrote apache, and now work with a guy who wrote most of one of the popular NOSQL engines. And they both work as systems administrators. Not "useradd" systems administrators (although they are technically in that part of the org chart) but more like what Google calls "SREs." Rather than explaining what it is, this guy's google groups post does a better job:

http://www.sage.org/lists/sage-members-archive/2005/msg02937...

If they just want you to add user accounts, that's weird. But SRE style jobs are where a lot of guys who write famous open source systems software end up.

from the google groups post: "Yes, sysadmin skills are essential here, however we also require a very strong skillset in development, automation, high-level systems architecture, networking, statistics and general problem-solving."

sounds like a description of zed!

Re: Zed Shaw has Left Dropbox

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Post by SlyShy »

zedshaw wrote: post #7
SlyShy wrote: post #2

Nice of him to make that clear, unnecessary as that was.

Actually, there was an entire thread just right now about it, and if you don't deal with the rumors right away they spread like herpes.

I read the thread. What I wrote was unclear though, sorry. What I meant was, it's stupid that you'd have to do that, because people shouldn't be starting rumor mills in the first place.

Re: Zed Shaw has Left Dropbox

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Post by mistermann »

starkfist wrote: post #8
zedshaw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it's not you, I do get asked to be a sysadmin quite often. I have no idea why. It's not something I'm good at. I did for a short time in college to pay tuition a decade ago. I don't enjoy it. I never apply for it. For some bizarre reason, people ask if I want to be a sysadmin out of the blue. Drives me crazy.

It's not that bizarre, you write software mainly used by systems administrators. I used to work with one of the guys who wrote apache, and now work with a guy who wrote most of one of the popular NOSQL engines. And they both work as systems administrators. Not "useradd" systems administrators (although they are technically in that part of the org chart) but more like what Google calls "SREs." Rather than explaining w…

Uhhhhh....oh, why bother.
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