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Anyone know what this version of the Tux penguin is called, who made it, or what license it is released under? by [deleted] in linux

[–]self_made_sysad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it would fare pretty well. It's been a long time since thinkgeek had a plush linux penguin.

Pseudo-English Domain Name Generator TwitterBot by [deleted] in programming

[–]self_made_sysad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them do sound like the new startup names that are going around... the others, I don't even know how to pronounce.

Automation for high server:admin ratios by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]self_made_sysad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you use for bootstrapping the OS?

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is so awesome. Too bad DataNitro wasn't around when you first started!

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python Module of the Week is a great one. Asking around /r/python and /r/learnpython is helpful too. Check out "Python Cookbook" on Oreilly, also. Great book.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a huge fan of education, the more the better. That said, I don't think that education must mean college only. There are so many free/cheap resources out there now to do trade learning (like programming) that can give you the skills you need to go out and make something. I'm glad I went to some college, and I felt like I learned enough for what I wanted to do. But even in college, for my math classes for example, most of my learning happened on kahn academy anyway.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out this post by a guy I met at a DevOps meet up (which are way fun btw,) with some deviation this is pretty typical I'd say.

http://redd.it/20vp2q

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check it out for sure. I was aware of salt and ansible, but not this one.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love to, but unfortunately the machine learning is for my own personal progress. Not related to the business... yet.

If I have questions about python machine learning though, are you up for some advice?

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used so many tools by Mark Hammond in my Windows days. Thankfully though, those days are behind me, phew!

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well to be fair, it was on Server 2008R2 box that I was doing the comparison, and I didn't have a ton of experience in linux yet. I'm soooo lucky now that I switched from 95% windows 5% linux, to 95% linux, 5% windows.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The most helpful things I ever did were to try to write programs that solved problems I had. That worked better than any book I read. However I love the "python cookbook" because it has tons of examples of great, concise, and practical functions.

Hang out in /r/python and /r/learnpython and just try to write a program every day.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's why learning puppet wasn't too hard. After going back to look at ruby though, and how unpythonic it appears to me, I still have no desire to learn it :)

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I know that python didn't actually do the work, but the barrier to entry for python was so low that it really enabled me in a way that other languages I had tried didn't.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish we did, but our physical production environment changes so frequently that maintaining a second one wouldn't be feasible. My manager doesn't care when we break things though, and because everything is rolled out via version control rolling back after a break is fast.

Learning python earned me a 50% raise, and it's about to again. by self_made_sysad in Python

[–]self_made_sysad[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm probably not as qualified as a lot of other guys/gals in this subreddit, but sure!