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Devs stay in one place like 15 months Occassionally a 2 year stint just so some Gen X-er that reviews their resume’ doesnt consider them too noncommittal No need to mince words about people leaving
Mind providing a source for this? I read this all the time but it doesn't match my experience here in Germany.
https://insights.dice.com/2016/07/08/how-long-do-tech-pros-s...
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the problem with 'wins the lottery' as a metaphor to me is basically that one is calling the winner a jerk.. if I suddenly could retire without a care in the world, I probably wouldn't mind dropping in for a day or two every now and again for knowledge transfer, even if I didn't like the company overall, to help my teammates..
I am the same way, but we are not the norm. In fact, most people don't even want to provide the occasional consulting once they leave the team (but stay at the company), let alone the company. There's also the problem of where to draw the line. Is a quick question ok? What about a bunch of questions? What about asking for a training session? What if the question requires diving back in to the source code to answer? E…
I am bothered by the fact that Linus is made plural as "Linus Torvaldses" and not "Lini Torvalds".
I'm pretty sure he's not a Roman but a Finn. (I'm also quite sure most languages today aren't Latin, namely English isn't. But what do I know, English speakers seem to have a different opinion.)
You can never have too much documentation - which isn't exactly what this dilemma is about - but still it raises an interesting bit of planning which should always be considered.
I'm curious how startups or venture capitalists handle risk around DevOps, especially certificates, encryption keys, access to dns/domain names etc. Legal processes take time, you typically need this info quickly in production. I'm not a VC, but if I was, I would want a backup plan in place before handing over an XX Million $ check. A smaller startup, or a seed level/pre-launch team may only have 1 or 2 founders with…
> Swiss bank account" type service for DevOps What does this mean? That nobody has access to production systems except devops?
Similar to how a Swiss bank is familiar with storing valuables/currency or executing a will.
This type of service would need to be modern in the sense the info can be updated over an API etc.
Anyone can create a DR plan and handle these issues, but then it isn't consistent, especially from a partner (VC etc) perspective.
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I'm very sorry for your loss. I've heard "wins the lottery" as a less morbid metaphor for the same concept: one of your employees stops working in a low-probability event. Of course the higher-probability event is leaving their job (but somehow it's less polite to just say that); you usually get two weeks to hurriedly start documenting things, and with the current state of employee/employer relations you might easily…
As far as I can tell, "hits by a bus" is actually the euphemism. The highest probability way to lose an employee is just the employee quitting to work somewhere else. But you can't say that because it implies that your current workplace is suboptimal. Whereas "hits by a bus" is out of the control of your employer, so safe to say...
“Guys, I have some bad news. Brian, our star programmer, is leaving to work for a competitor.”
‘Oh no! We depended on him so much!’
“Hah! I’m just messing with you. He was hit by a bus and died.”
‘Phew! I was worried I had a job that didn’t pay competitively!’
> How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?
> Keep me alive.
https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-intervie...