fluppet posted:

have a stab at cloudformation/opsworks rather than setting up a single instance

Docjowles posted:

Also, do poo poo via the API rather than the web console. The point of the cloud is not to spin up special snowflakes slowly one-by-one, so don't treat it that way. There are libraries for basically every language under the sun so you can take your pick.

Autoscaling is a fun feature to experiment with. Set up an instance and an autoscaling policy, then run something in an infinite loop to spike the CPU and watch a second instance pop up automatically to help out.

Docjowles posted:

I don't have a particular tutorial in mind, but boto is the go-to Python lib for AWS.

Tab8715 posted:

What's an example of something done Web UI and then the same thing with the API?

fromoutofnowhere posted:

What vendors do you folks use for hardware purchases? I've currently got SHI and PC Connections, PC Connections turned around a quote with-in 4 hours, while I'm still waiting for SHI. NewEggBusiness won't answer their phones and I need to hunt down several more quotes for this refresh.

fromoutofnowhere posted:

What vendors do you folks use for hardware purchases? I've currently got SHI and PC Connections, PC Connections turned around a quote with-in 4 hours, while I'm still waiting for SHI. NewEggBusiness won't answer their phones and I need to hunt down several more quotes for this refresh.

vibur posted:

I mostly use MicroAge.

meanieface posted:

What would be the simplest/cheapest way to go about having a box somewhere that I can remote into from work & run a smallish SSMS on? Work only has 2008 and I want to practice on 2014 for the first MS SQL cert.

(Trying to get security folks to approve me accessing a 2014 version will literally take over a year. I've already tried that route.)

ETA: I don't have an 'extra' home computer to set up myself or I would have done so.

skipdogg posted:

I love my MicroAge guy. He's my primary VAR, and we have accounts with most of the others. CDW, Zones, PC Mall, Dell, etc.

If it's not Dell hardware we order through MicroAge

skipdogg posted:

Does Lenovo have an equivalent to Dell gold support? Or is it all mail in service to the depot? NBD onsite techs rule.

evol262 posted:

That's ok. It isn't well-spent. These kinds of things have been around forever. Every so often, they get a group which is hired into ${some_hip_company} because they just got a new round of funding and they need to expand so fast that they don't have the time to interview proper candidates, then they hawk it on their website.

Generally these companies hire because they're just banking on people who could make it through an intensive 10/12/whatever week camp being able to learn quickly enough to pick up whatever stack they're using fast enough to make meaningful contributions, not because they're exceptional engineers or diamonds in the rough or whatever.

Their cost estimator looks like it's near $17,000 with no guarantees other than "a hiring round with London companies as an entry-level developer" (which probably doesn't even pay 200% of the cost of the "Maker's Academy").

It's a scummy practice for people who think there's an easy way. There isn't. Learn to loving code if that's what you wanna do. But you don't have to pay seventeen grand plus living expenses to get a job as an entry-level developer. You need to learn to code at your current job by automating poo poo you already know and learning more about things you're curious about or that you encounter while you're automating that stuff, then start applying to jobs as a junior/entry level developer in whatever language you're using (don't use shell or powershell). Please pay me $17,000.

Venusy posted:

Bit of advice needed since I'm rather new at this: I left an apprenticeship at the end of January, and accepted an offer (subject to criminal record/background/reference checks) on Monday. Today, a position that I really wanted but assumed I hadn't got finally gave me a request to interview. Should they offer me the position, it's slightly better pay, and a much shorter (and cheaper) commute than the one I accepted the offer for. I really don't like going back on my word, but I haven't actually signed anything yet aside from the permission for the criminal record/background checks to be done. Am I OK in rejecting the first offer if I do get a new one?

EDIT: I spoke to the recruiter on the first position, and they got me the PDF copy of the contract to sign with potential for starting on Tuesday if the criminal record check comes back Monday.

Venusy posted:

Bit of advice needed since I'm rather new at this: I left an apprenticeship at the end of January, and accepted an offer (subject to criminal record/background/reference checks) on Monday. Today, a position that I really wanted but assumed I hadn't got finally gave me a request to interview. Should they offer me the position, it's slightly better pay, and a much shorter (and cheaper) commute than the one I accepted the offer for. I really don't like going back on my word, but I haven't actually signed anything yet aside from the permission for the criminal record/background checks to be done. Am I OK in rejecting the first offer if I do get a new one?

EDIT: I spoke to the recruiter on the first position, and they got me the PDF copy of the contract to sign with potential for starting on Tuesday if the criminal record check comes back Monday.

skipdogg posted:

Does Lenovo have an equivalent to Dell gold support? Or is it all mail in service to the depot? NBD onsite techs rule.

CloFan posted:

Switched from the Dell Optiplex desktops and Latitude laptops to HP EliteDesk and EliteBooks last summer. The price difference was significant cheaper for the HPs, same specs and warranty/onsite repair options. You'd never hear me say this about their consumer line, but I enjoy working with their enterprise hardware.

The last two years we got Dell 790s, then 7010s. We've had some high failure rates, maybe around 5 or 10%, mostly bad power supplies. I know I don't have as big of a sample size for the HPs, but I've only had three or four go bad out of an order of 275. Ordering another three hundred of the units this summer, so we'll see if the quality is consistent.

Dark Helmut posted:

Sounds like a pretty straight forward case of having a bird in the hand. Slightly better pay and slightly better commute alone are not worth burning a bridge at this or really any stage of your career.

Bob Morales posted:

It's not really that unusual to have some accept and offer and then turn it down for some reason before they start.

Honest Thief posted:

I know how to code, not great mind you but i get around, although I get stuck in on jobs where I'm doing more maintenance than dev which would imply otherwise. I just figured getting the foothold on the foreign market would be easier through that. Although, after looking around I would have more luck just moving to London and applying to jobs there than spending four to six months.

Super Slash posted:

Just based on them being cheap as gently caress and to keep things standard I order in HP ProDesk 400 G1 SFF desktops, my only gripe is that they come loaded with bloat which I haven't had time to get around. My to-go laptop was the HP ProBook 450 G2 but the price has gone up and at least one has been cracked at the hinge, so I've got one Dell Latitude 3000 series as a trial which I think will be the new standard; since they look pretty tough, are cheaper, and don't have any crap on them (The provider I rarely order from goofed about availability, so gave me an upgrade at no cost as to not disappoint about using Dell, free Hybrid HDD!).

Sheep posted:

It's 2015, we've had mice figured out for how many decades now?

Sheep posted:

We went from HP ProBooks to these Lenovo laptops with quite possibly the worst touchpad in the history of mankind. The entire touchpad is the mouse button, so when you click, the entire touchpad moves, inevitably moving the cursor along with it (generally down since the hinge is up at the top I guess). How anyone thought that would be anything but infuriating, I have no idea.


Just give me two buttons if you can't do pressure sensitivity or something. It's 2015, we've had mice figured out for how many decades now?

Sheep posted:

Sheep posted:

Touchpads have been available since the 90s. Even 90s Powerbooks had them.

Edit: touchpad trackpad they're both mice, point being this poo poo isn't rocket science.

Sheep posted:

We went from HP ProBooks to these Lenovo laptops with quite possibly the worst touchpad in the history of mankind. The entire touchpad is the mouse button, so when you click, the entire touchpad moves, inevitably moving the cursor along with it (generally down since the hinge is up at the top I guess). How anyone thought that would be anything but infuriating, I have no idea.


Just give me two buttons if you can't do pressure sensitivity or something. It's 2015, we've had mice figured out for how many decades now?

Sheep posted:

We went from HP ProBooks to these Lenovo laptops with quite possibly the worst touchpad in the history of mankind. The entire touchpad is the mouse button, so when you click, the entire touchpad moves, inevitably moving the cursor along with it (generally down since the hinge is up at the top I guess). How anyone thought that would be anything but infuriating, I have no idea.


Just give me two buttons if you can't do pressure sensitivity or something. It's 2015, we've had mice figured out for how many decades now?