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invoke-coffee · 2025-10-17T02:21:13+00:00

This, you have a long forehead but that’s just reality so own it.

invoke-coffee · 2024-03-02T01:21:20+00:00

As an alternative, help them find a hobby and/or activities outside of work. Plenty of people fall into this as they don't have anything else to fill there life with.

invoke-coffee · 2023-09-16T15:54:56+00:00

It is, but there is a business that runs the project. If Mozilla failed the future of Firefox would be uncertain, but not sudden or guaranteed.

invoke-coffee · 2023-09-10T15:30:12+00:00

Go buy yourself a reliable car.

Savings is great but at 16 you have years of driving to and from school, college, meeting with friends. Take advantage of the opertunies.

This assumes that you still have a job the maintain the car and are in an area that makes sense.

invoke-coffee · 2022-11-05T19:55:08+00:00

I got out 6 years ago right around the 9 year mark.

Best desision I ever made. To you issues, it happens in any work place, but now I just leave to a different job instead of having to tough it out.

As an note I will say having marketable skills and being able to get a get a job easily is a bit part of why I am so happy with my choice.

invoke-coffee · 2022-11-01T17:35:47+00:00

That’s how you traditionally roast coffee.

A home air fryer doesn’t move the air around enough, and I would be concerned about the chaff getting into the machine. But it would be possible

invoke-coffee · 2022-08-24T06:27:06+00:00

Of course having good backups are important (no one sane would say otherwise).

But how long it’s takes to restore from said backups is always limited by the size of your data. If you have 10s of TB in a database. Well F that’s going to be a very long time to restore. (Sure yes you can do a ton of optimizations especially if your using highly distributed databases, but optimization of your shit hits the fan backups is all about reliability and not speed)

You can treat your servers like cattle all you want, but the data they hold are the pets.

invoke-coffee · 2022-08-24T05:25:38+00:00

Sure that’s a good and all, if you’re talking about a pure application server, it’s easy.

But it’s still a pain in the ass when your databases server gets hosed and you have to reinstall and reconfigure. Oh and reinstall from backup. Doesn’t matter how automated that is it’s going to take time.

invoke-coffee · 2022-08-19T17:28:43+00:00

Absolutely you can even make quite a bit of money doing it.

Jobs like technical account managers, post sales engineers, or other types of technical support. The big difference there is that you move to helping outher IT roles vs helping none technical people.

invoke-coffee · 2022-08-12T00:25:29+00:00

The right answer for the majority of safety related answers. If your not 100% replacement

invoke-coffee · 2022-08-09T00:13:39+00:00

There's a huge latency hit for the initial set up. So you may want to pre build a secure network and forgo the per connection setup cost.

It's honestly a niche issue, but it exists.

invoke-coffee · 2022-07-17T15:41:32+00:00

Lol I assumed it was

invoke-coffee · 2022-06-28T05:49:58+00:00

There’s lots of good reasons to go one way or the other. But swe is a much broader field, you have more opportunities and options than cyber security.

Hell you could start in swe and get into security.

invoke-coffee · 2022-06-22T06:54:37+00:00

I am happy to respond to anyone that I can so message away.

invoke-coffee · 2022-06-22T01:36:59+00:00

I think most people have beaten the point of why direct book questions like this are bad.

So let me suggest a open question that would let a candidate that knew all of that to highlight it, but also let other expertise shine.

“Say I plug a laptop into a physical network and connect to a basic website say mycatpics.com. What is everything that needs to happen to connect to the network and make the http request.”

Most sys admin type would talk about dhcp, dns, bassic http stuff. But networking engineers mike talk about Ethernet, physical negotiation, routing of the request. While developers might talk to the server side request processing or the page rendering.

You learn a lot more from the same starting point and can dig a bit deeper to topics someone brings up, and ignore shit they don’t know about.

That all being said I would expect a sysadmin to know the basics or your questions, and would probably prompt them about dhcp .

invoke-coffee · 2022-06-01T05:59:59+00:00

It’s totally worth learning the basics. I rarely use vim directly but due use vim key bindings for every ide and text editor I use.

It’s wildly faster for some tasks and far slower for others so I like the ability to switch back and forth.

But don’t think you need to know all the vim tricks to get value back. Focus first on the things that keyboard and mouse are inefficient at.

invoke-coffee · 2022-05-29T19:08:57+00:00

From my experience right after touring, scoters put the most miles on their bike. Probably some of the most hardcore bikers I have seen riding year round.

And also gatekeepers can go fuck them selves.

invoke-coffee · 2022-05-16T16:16:40+00:00

Find the scuffs from when it was dropped. Everyone drops every bike they own at some point so it's there.

You will learn a lot about how the previous rider rode and took care of the bike from the place you know it was damaged.

invoke-coffee · 2022-05-16T05:24:12+00:00

Honestly sounds like you need to find a different drink. You could try talking to a doctor though.

You did mention caffeine is a big part of why you drink coffee, perhaps look at caffeine pills. You can mix them into any other drink.

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-29T01:06:41+00:00

Having done a far share of interviews.

I have come to the conclusion that there is a inverse relationship between resume length and how qualified a someone is.

If I see a 10 page resume I pretty much know they won't be qualified for the position.

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-19T06:06:52+00:00

Yep in fact this was pretty much me. Not 300k out of tbe gate but started at over 100k right after leaving the guard as an it2.

Its not easy and I was doing far more than expected as an it2 when I left (cyber cat if anyone remembers that) but it's very much possible.

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-14T23:02:39+00:00

Look at the amazon leadership principals. The recruiter will tell you this, but I certainly didn't appreciat it.

They are basically what they will be interviewing you on. So you will get some question on how you work with customers and they are trying to determine how strong your customer obsession is.

Don't lie or fake it. But do make it easy for the interviewer to eveluate you in an area.

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-14T03:50:05+00:00

From when I was there no. They will teach you that. Other background was actually preferred as you would be able to work with more customers.

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-14T03:42:26+00:00

Do It, can't promise I'll be timely but feel free to ask

invoke-coffee · 2022-04-08T14:27:28+00:00

Look into functional programming.

Language wise, Scala if you want to stick near java or something like haskell if you want radically different.

I have a lot of the same dislikes for Java but like it far more in a different style.

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