@freiheit But they're all "Hey look at this bike that's more expensive than you asked for!" and "Here's a bike in your budget, and four truckloads of shit you didn't ask for!"
@WesleyDavid "Hey, look at this bike that's more expensive than you asked for! Here, let me adjust the seat and stem to fit you, and you can take it for a test ride. We close at 6."
@WesleyDavid 56cm is what I ride. I'm 5'10.5" with a long torso (short legs). I end up with about a fistful of seatpost and a distance from saddle to handlebars that's perfect.
I had to send my laptop back to Lenovo... Broken CPU fan. I would have fixed it myself, but they offered to send me a brand new unit to replace it with.
I had enough going on at the time, like getting ready for surgery
Spoke to a very promising company today, so I'm excited. Having a phone screen early next week
One of their managers from India
Very much "wear whatever you want to work, and you can have tattoos, and piercings and weird colored hair and play with a lot of cool technology and we'll pay you a lot of money"
@DennisKaarsemaker Hey, if I tell the interviewer that I quit my previous job because of a spat with my manager, what are the chances of me getting the job? :D
@KevinSoviero depends on how much you badmouth your manager. "I quit because of disagreements with my manager over XXYYZZ" is reasonable. "I quit, because my boss was an idiot who didn't know windows from os/2" reduces your chances :)
@KevinSoviero Ugh, had a manager that went out the door like that at my last job. Great guy, and he was right, since the company did actually go down the tubes because the decisions he said were really bad, but it's never fun to see it happen. =(
If they'd have listened to him, me and about 60 other people would still have jobs right now. =(
@KevinSoviero Heh. Sometimes manual labor is good. Very Zen. Sometimes tough to take a few minutes to sit and meditate in the course of the day, and a little bit of manual labor helps re-center the mind sometimes.
@DennisKaarsemaker When I did some interviews looking to leave my indie work, I got that all the time, of course. Very reasonable question.
@freiheit So, let's see what you think of my answers. Behind the scenes, the real reason I was interviewing was #1 I wasn't making enough money on my own. Still true, but haven't stepped into any interviews lately.
When I was asked, my answer was still truthful, but not revealing how rather unsuccessful my consulting had been. It was "I miss working on larger projects and technology than simple small business stuff. I also miss working with a team of people. I don't like to work 100% alone, even though I can be self directed, I still like to have colleagues and a team."
I forgot to change the static IP of a network device before moving it from my datacenter network to my home LAN. Since it isn't configured properly for my LAN network, I'm not sure how to access it.
Constraints:
It's a NAS (a LaCie Network Space MAX) and can only be accessed via web console. I...
@Adrian Within a one-month period I built a stage, potted plants, and moved an entire room of (very heavy) cardboard boxes to a new room... There was more, but I can't remember them right now. All of this given to me by the new manager right after he started.
@DennisKaarsemaker But the real, no holds barred answer was: "I'm making the same wages as a cashier at a grocery store, staying up late trying to find new customers and revenue streams when I'd rather be neck deep in scripts, server configs, and etc." followed by the other reasons I mentioned above.
@ewwhite I... okay. Err... you have the hookup for some bikes that no one would notice was missing?
@DennisKaarsemaker Spent nearly a quarter of my time at $job[-1] mentoring the really new engineers that were working their first gig out of school. Pained me to see those guys get cut loose just 4-5 months into their first job through no fault of their own. =(
Sad to work on industry-changing projects just to see the opportunity float away. =/
@ewwhite Nah, this wasn't even admin. It was engineering. You can't DevOps the basic engineering for deployments. DevOps depends on the Engineering to know how to configure the environment.
And, of course, this was all on a dev environment, because our actual production stuff is a cluster that you don't just install by unzipping a file in the right directory
@WesleyDavid It's supposed to talk to another server to find out if the user has any "surveys" to fill out, and present a link (with some kind of embedded auth) in a block if they do.
At least we managed to get it to complain about WSDL instead of infinite looping...
We are having a problem where our OS X Lion machines will continually query Active Directory 2008 for every user in the directory until a user logs into the machine. When a user logs into the machine, the continuous, expensive queries stop. The problem queries start again as soon as the user logs...
@Cole Does he catch mice? And then release them entirely uninjured under your wine rack, then get confused when it runs off to the couch and continue searching the wine rack really thoroughly?
@Cole The dead animals deposited in shoes is mildly annoying. If it's a rat, I'm even pleased that at least the rat is dead. Releasing them live in the house really cuts into the cuteness a lot.
Oh so back to my question for you guys who interview people/interview for Linux positions. What are certain things that if a candidate doesn't know is a total deal breaker? I've never interviewed for a pure Linux or primarily Linux position before.
@Cole If you can't use a terminal mode text editor, that's a deal breaker. vi, emacs, pico, nano, joe, whatever... terminal mode text editor or no deal.
I forgot to change the static IP of a network device before moving it from my datacenter network to my home LAN. Since it isn't configured properly for my LAN network, I'm not sure how to access it.
Constraints:
It's a NAS (a LaCie Network Space MAX) and can only be accessed via web console. I...
