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I have a dumb science degree, no certs, and learned my job on-the-fly. I’ve spent ten years in Enterprise Database Administration and Architecture. So yeah, that four year program was kinda irrelevant, the fact that I read the loving manual, developed an understanding of how the technologies work, and didn’t gently caress anything up too badly was way more important.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Same, but the network. s/network/database/g
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May 4, 2018 21:22
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Adjectives are funny if you apply them to the wrong language, e.g. Fortran#, COBOL on rails, Visual MUMPS. This post reminded me that COBOL on Cogs is a real thing. Start migrating your web applications to God’s chosen framework.
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 Ops DBA. Never again.
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Methanar posted:Half of my 1:1 today was spent talking about old memes Was the other half talking about new memes? *slaps 1-on-1* This bad boy can fit so many fuckin memes in it. I gave notice yesterday. My boss hasn’t told my team, so now I look like a dick for avoiding taking on new work that I won’t get done in the next two weeks.  At least he cancelled the 1-on-1 we haven’t had since January. ElehemEare fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Jul 13, 2018 02:55
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Methanar posted:Not having clear work available or being able to do anything valuable is horrible. I quit a do-nothing six-figure job because spending 40 hours a week being disempowered from doing anything but the bare minimum to keep the lights on caused me actual diagnosed depression. Played a lot of Skyrim on the Switch though. e: I should add it wasn’t just my boss who thought this way. It was endemic all the way up to the CTO, in the tech division of a larger org that actually did stuff. ElehemEare fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:There's one in the pacific ocean!!!!!!! Yeah but the one stationed at MARLANT just catches fire as soon as it hits open ocean. There are a butt-ton of naval IT people out here in Halifax, and I think they mostly land at Lockheed or somewhere doing ancillary training/ simming software like BlueDrop instead of the startup or mainstream “tech companies” here. That or they retire from service to a lobster boat. ElehemEare fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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Once I stopped trying to make sure everything was right and instead make sure everything was “right enough” it was a pretty clear progression to Director, so I guess if I learned one thing evolving my cynicism it’s choosing which of the hills I’m willing to die on.
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Dec 15, 2019 17:57
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Tab8715 posted:nearly always obtrusive Except for when you’re on a call and someone puts something into the chat, and it’s just a subtle change to a UI element that only appears if you’re actively moving the mouse in the window. 
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Dec 20, 2019 04:34
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I’m the “cloud-agnostic” chant with no investment to a PaaS or containerization strategy, forcing lowest-common-denominator implementations on full-fat VM hosts.
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Docjowles posted:Yeah... obviously it's going to depend on the specifics of your app(s), but having data stored in one cloud and the compute that accesses it in another actually sounds like a terrible pattern to me. Performance will be worse, costs to access it will be higher, permissions will be clunkier. Tell this to the company I used to work that felt it was a good idea to push from on-prem databases to an S3 lake then pull it back down to on-prem HDFS for analytics. I did, then quit.
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This ain’t healthy my dude.
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Agrikk posted:It’s seems they have convinced you of this fact to keep you around, but you need to fix that thinking and take your time off. That or like...
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Proteus Jones posted:I remember something I was told way back when I worked at a startup ISP in the mid 90s. Never make yourself indispensable. Because then you've done one of two things. You've either made it so you will never, ever get a promotion again in the company, or when technology moves on, as it does, you'll be the first to be let go. Restated: teach people about the dumb poo poo you built so you can build newer, dumber poo poo because money. This is my mantra.
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Vulture Culture posted:I have been working in or adjacent to infosec since 2003. My 7-year-old successfully phished the Screen Time password on her iPad from me Criminal to leave us hanging like this. 
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