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

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

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Post by e40 »

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".

It is very frustrating that many of the NoSQL databases aren't ACID. Some even say they are, but they aren't. Frustrating to me because we have one that is, and it's a lot of work and harder to win benchmarks against the ones that fake it or aren't.

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

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Post by rodgerd »

nickpeterson wrote: post #37
drc500free wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It definitely can do this, though obviously it can details wrong here and there. For example: Describe what this code does in clear english: from datetime import datetime import pytz utcmoment_naive = datetime.utcnow() utcmoment = utcmoment_naive.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc) # print "utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive) # python 2 print("utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive)) print("utcmoment: {0}".forma…

So you’re telling me if one writes a plug-in that integrates with source control checkins and provides these summaries plus an additional terser summary to nontechnical users, I wonder if companies would buy that?

I mean Elon Musk would.

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

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Post by toast0 »

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.

As a fully self-directed engineer, what I'm looking for from a manager is benign neglect.

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

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Post by kerpotgh »

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.

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

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Post by wongarsu »

Wait, so Ubisoft spent $1M on a company wide backup system that apparently worked great, it's just that this sysadmin wanted incremental backups and the $1M system wasn't built to support that (blazingly fast ingest, slow online reads). So the sysadmin had to fight a lot to get dedicated hardware to do incremental backups, and eventually got it. I'm not sure Ubisoft is in the wrong at any point here?

Everything else mentioned wants me to not work at Ubisoft, and roughly matches what I would have expected, just worse. The disregard for developers, the absurd NIH syndrome, etc. But I don't get the headline of the article

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

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Post by toast0 »

jtchang wrote: post #35

How does one force exponential backoff of clients without taking in any load on themselves? Is it some sort of TCP window congestion control futzing? But even that wouldn't work since the client can do whatever the heck it wants.

Drop incoming SYNs when the CPU hits thresholds. More specifically, every second the cpu is at or above the 'bad times' threshold, increase the probability that you'll drop a SYN; every second the cpu is at or below the 'good times' threshold, decrease the probability that you'll drop a SYN.

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

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Post by whydoineedthis »

e40 wrote: post #61
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".

It is very frustrating that many of the NoSQL databases aren't ACID. Some even say they are, but they aren't. Frustrating to me because we have one that is, and it's a lot of work and harder to win benchmarks against the ones that fake it or aren't.

which one is that?

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

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Post by whydoineedthis »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #22

Our remote manager bought us an expensive HP floor-mount server like a dishwasher. It was over spec'd and underpowered. And we didn't need a server, not for work. My colleague loaded up his entire ripped CD collection and we got Bluetooth headphones and had it serve up tunes all day. Back when that was a thing. Only thing it ever did.

in a way, he's genius. that probably boosted your overall productivity by 5% for a fraction of the cost.
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