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It should be noted that the evidence that stress is a primary cause of gastric ulcers has been fairly weak since the discovery of H. pylori, though there is some evidence stress may be a contributing factor.
FWIW stress is a contributing factor in pretty much all diseases we know. Particularly those where the immune system is active.
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Based on my experience: IT was well aware it was insane. Alas, IT got absolutely no budget for fixing it from top brass, as kicking the can down the road always made more sense short-term
IT of the insane company, or the acquiring company? Because the post says IT of the acquiring company didn't know until the problem blew up.
It's a failure all round but i would say acquiring companies IT team are least to blame here.
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> Service passwords are still stored in clear text in the corporate wiki. I know this painfully well :(. Can you recommend some good solution? Ideally open source and self hosted, instead of cloud password manager.
Disagree about the Cloud requirement. Because: in this scenario you need to drive adoption first,if it is any complicated the humans will not use it. so you need the easiest tool possible. when everybody is using it, THEN go for the real security move. (you can try to find a non-cloud one that is super easy, but...)
I worked in a software company once where we acquired a product to integrate into ours. It was developed by a self taught programmer in his 50ies that did versioning by making copies of the whole directory when he had something that worked, the way I also worked before university. Since he was the only developer and he was pretty good this mostly worked. His first name was/is Leif so from then on me and my friends sp…
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IT of the insane company, or the acquiring company? Because the post says IT of the acquiring company didn't know until the problem blew up.
DD failed to find it during the M&A, issue didn't become apparent until the purchased company lost multiple employees who kept the plates spinning. It's a failure all round but i would say acquiring companies IT team are least to blame here.
Uh, as much as I enjoy reading this, posting this on Reddit seems particularly unwise for job security purposes. This seems to be an ongoing incident and there's more than enough info shared to de-anonymize.
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Personally I found this piece pretty fun to read. The guy is ventilating some stress through prose, not applying to work with you.
I don't doubt that there's an interesting story in there. I tried to hang in long enough to find out. I can only take so much, though.
It should be noted that the evidence that stress is a primary cause of gastric ulcers has been fairly weak since the discovery of H. pylori, though there is some evidence stress may be a contributing factor.
FWIW stress is a contributing factor in pretty much all diseases we know. Particularly those where the immune system is active.
Also, I avoided situps, cos the muscle pains felt like ulcer attacks.
There's this specific food that I love. It's eaten RAW but often prepared in a not too hygienic manner. Since I banned myself from eating it, I've slowly become able to stay a few hours without food and can handle more stress.
While it all feels insane from one perspective, it’s not hard to imagine a different narrative where the “founders of ‘insane asylum’ hacked the startup system, were product first, got acquired, and used their new home to pay down tech debt.”
Also - they are NOT paying down the tech debt. The programmers and sysadmin staff doing overtime mentioned are.