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Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by nickpeterson »

bombcar wrote: post #45
anyfoo wrote: post #44

> and begin real investigation you will quickly find that many databases that are popular are totally fine losing data. MongoDB being the most famous example that I can think off of the top of my head. Always pisses me off. University teaches the principles of ACID and how hard databases work to adhere to these principles, and then so called "NoSQL" comes along and says "lol we have eventual consistency".

The heat death of the universe is eventually consistent.

Let’s hope our Kafka topics are caught up in time!

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by anyfoo »

daneel_w wrote: post #26

The implied notion that the manager really had no idea what they actually wanted, or at the very least were unable to sensibly describe the requirements, is entirely believable, but from a systems development perspective nothing in this article makes any sense.

Care to elaborate?

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by walrus01 »

> Ubisoft had built an organisation optimised for treating developers like fools

I think this whole write up really says more about how video game developers treat entry and mid-level career developers/programmers/graphic artists.

Because there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of young idealistic naive persons who will take any salary offered and work for 80 hours a week, because they've been offered a job at a big name video game company.

Film/VFX industry not much different.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by csa »

mikepurvis wrote: post #33
MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.

Having been both, being a really good manager is hard in a very different set of ways. Depending what itch you're trying to scratch, and what opportunities are available in your org, it might be just as rewarding to be a tech lead, feature lead, mentor, cross-team liaison, steering committee member, or possibly other roles rather than team lead / manager.

> tech lead, feature lead, mentor, cross-team liaison, steering committee member

All roles that young folks dream about becoming when they grow up.

Grandma: What do you want to be when you grow up, honey?

Granddaughter: A CROSS-TEAM LIASON!!! Yay!!!

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by jborean93 »

28mm wrote: post #34
jborean93 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the same on Firefox on Linux (Fedora 37). It looks like the server is responding with an ECDHE key exchange using a SHA1 signature algorithm which is disabled on modern versions of OpenSSL. I'm not sure why it works on Chrome, maybe their TLS client is a bit more lax. You can see openssl fail to verify the signature locally with `openssl s_client -connect blog.dijit.sh:443` due to the wrong signature type. At l…

I am not sure about that. On my system that openssl invocation fails because the site doesn't staple the intermediate Letsencrypt R3 certificate, and openssl doesn't retrieve it while browsers do. If their system is old enough perhaps they have a version of the ISRG X1 certificate that is cross-signed by the expired DST X3 certificate. Some ssl imlementations did poorly with this. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-roo…

That could be it for yourself but I have a newer OpenSSL version (3.0.8) and the error does state the following

> 006E552F8D7F0000:error:0A000172:SSL routines:tls12_check_peer_sigalg:wrong signature type:ssl/t1_lib.c:1592:

The error from Firefox is SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM which seems to align to what I'm seeing on the signature algorithm returned. Lastly by setting my system wide policy to allow the LEGACY (Fedora's term) algorithms the website starts to work on Firefox.

It could very well be that the server is at fault here (based on what I've read this seems to be the case) and that's due to the Let's Encrypt cross signed certificate. But the reason it's failing to load on the client side is because some clients block SHA1 based signing algorithms and that's what the server is offering here.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by nickpeterson »

labster wrote: post #5
techsurfer wrote: post #3

Where I work we have a 10K a year server budget but used to just use free Heroku instance

Yeah, but this article is about keeping backups, and Heroku deletes data from paying customers without notifying them first.

Heroku is freeing customers of the burden of compliance with gdpr.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by mason55 »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #38
nickpeterson wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think people often convince themselves that becoming a manager is a path for those who couldn’t hack it. In reality it’s a completely different set of problems. If you’re a decent developer with phenomenal soft skills, there is a very good chance you’d be better in management or sales than writing code.

My own observation is that it's more important for managers to be well-organized, remember details, and keep track of things Not sure if that's what you mean by soft skills, but I generally think of soft skills as things like ability to communicate well, navigate conflict, and apply emotional intelligence to people management The "soft skills" as I understand them are more important for roles like team lead/staff, wh…

> My own observation is that it's more important for managers to be well-organized, remember details, and keep track of things

It's interesting, I feel like this applies to a line manager. Once you get beyond that you can just hire to fill in your own weaknesses. If you're bad with organization, just hire a good project manager.

I guess that's how you end up with the Pareto principal. Even just moving from being a line manager to being a manager-of-managers is a different job that requires different skills, but the assumption is if you're a good line manager then the next step is to manage managers. There are probably plenty of people who there who would make fine directors but are bad managers so they don't get that chance. And then you have people who are good managers who end up as bad directors.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by candiddevmike »

bombcar wrote: post #45
anyfoo wrote: post #44

> and begin real investigation you will quickly find that many databases that are popular are totally fine losing data. MongoDB being the most famous example that I can think off of the top of my head. Always pisses me off. University teaches the principles of ACID and how hard databases work to adhere to these principles, and then so called "NoSQL" comes along and says "lol we have eventual consistency".

The heat death of the universe is eventually consistent.

I don't think that is what the vendors mean when they discuss enforcing anti-entropy.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by yoyohello13 »

lordnacho wrote: post #15
kubb wrote: post #8

My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.

Chesterton's Manager?

Underrated comment. Many people believe their manager does nothing... until they become a manager and realize all the BS their manager protected them from on the daily.

Re: My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used

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Post by swyx »

kubb wrote: post #8

My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.

well look, I already told you, I deal with the customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills. I'm good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
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