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@TheCleaner too mean?

TheCleaner

warranted...but I'm guessing it is someone that thought "System Admin" was good enough over "user9028414"

odd that I still even slightly recall vbs

@TheCleaner I liked vbs :p

Vacation Bible School right?

TheCleaner

I liked that too...semi-decent food and kickball.

uggh... trying to troubleshoot a LAMP issue, intermittent login failures on one of the apps

@TheCleaner and crafts!

9:16 PM

Whee!

@Magellan ?

@RyJones My recruiter's getting a little more nervous about me slipping away into something else before he can get me placed.

@Magellan well good he should have been on top of things before

@RyJones Not that he wasn't, he's been good. But I've been getting excellent response from resume's sent out in the past couple weeks. It's been awhile since he's actively had to sell me on interviewing with one of his suggestions.

Much like all y'all have said, the short time frame on the resume' doesn't seem to have hindered my desirability much. Figured two 3-4 months gig would make me radioactive, but it doesn't seem to be so at the moment.

@Magellan yeah, you'll do fine

9:23 PM

That UW gig looks really good too. And you don't necessarily loaf along when you're working on a Gates Foundation grant where the First Lady is using your charts & graphs in televised conferences.

NOT what I was actually expecting to hear from the UW guy.

So yeah. I'm stoked.

9:37 PM

If there was a button that would magically destroy every radio station on the planet, and simultaneously kill everyone involve with them, I would press it twice.

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@Wesley =P You need to listen to KEXP.

But not this week. It's the fundraising drive this week, so they're talking more than normal.

@Magellan They need to listen to KFOAD.

@Wesley So what exactly do you hate about radio?

Minutes before an important broadcast I get a crush of phones calls and emails crying about their streaming source client not working. ZOMG NOTHING WERKSSS!!!

Yeah, I'll get to you sometime between 15-after-pound-sand and go-fuck-yourself-o'clock

@Wesley Ah. A radio station that's trying to scrimp by not having any technical staff. Yes, commercial radio can die in a fire.

9:43 PM

@Magellan Main time-suck of a client is a streaming provider for terrestrial station's streaming sports. Next week the pay-wall goes up so that should be fun.

@Wesley Are they paying you?

And actually paying you money.

@Magellan No, he's paywalling them

!mods

you want me to fix it? PAY ME.

@Magellan ...were. The pay-wall going up for about 180 stations will be where the money to pay about 10k in back invoices comes from.

9:44 PM

I'd like someone else to do something with this

There's still many assumptions in these responses. I wouldn't have asked if I had the luxury of free time to play around in code. I hoped someone actually knew the answer to this issue, as yet, nobody does. The issue is already resolved, the contract coders snaked their way through the five years of accumulated code and found no dependency. People and situations are not all cookie-cutter. In a competitive, dense market like the SF Bay Area, one can specialize more so than elsewhere, and not being a coder is not a liability. Again - asked due to lack of spare time, not laziness or ineptitude. — anastrophe 35 mins ago

close the question.t

the OP is a jackass fucktard

and this has been going on far too long

@Wesley Ah. So you've been working for free again, eh?

he's wrong.

I'm right.

and I can't close it without it looking like epic snark.

@Magellan <_<

@TomO'Connor meh, I'll just lock your answer for off-topic comments after I upvote it :)

@TomO'Connor when has that ever stopped you in the past?

=P

9:45 PM

@voretaq7 Suit yourself.

@Wesley Trying not to get DDossed by the guy

@TomO'Connor DDoS'd by an IP.

Wouldn't be surprised.

@TomO'Connor With a visual basic GUI.

Oh wait, he doesn't code.

Hey, I don't know how to code either, but at least I'm aware that I'm an idiot.

@Wesley I bet you can read code though.

@TomO'Connor I can stumble through. I'm really happy with my last month's worth of Ruby frobbing.

9:47 PM

So, here's a thing. Everyone should be able to read code, ask questions and figure it the fuck out.

Reading code is a hell of a lot easier than writing good code. Still easier than writing bad code.

@TomO'Connor I get lost with crazy lambdas and pointer stuffs. Memory managment on lower languages freaks me out.

Nobody should say "ERHMAGHERD, code! Gimme a dev, stat!"

everyone gets fucked by pointers.

that's what they're for

@TomO'Connor ANSI C touched me in bad places as a kid. =(

@TomO'Connor I welcome prissy bitches DDoSing me

9:48 PM

MetroWorks Codewarrior, bitches!

but then again I have friends in federal law enforcement

@voretaq7 haha

Okay, gotta get back to un-hosing radio stations.

I just wanna say (but probably shouldn't). "You're a douchenozzle, and I'm going to ensure the devops army strip you of your job and livelihood"

@TomO'Connor Seriously, if you can't at least look at code in any common language and suss out what it's doing you have no business being a sysadmin

9:50 PM

@voretaq7 Ex-fucking-actly.

Oh FFS. This just in from a "technician" Both encoders were not on. I started both. I turned off updates and the firewall.

that's not "devops" that's "basic competence" -- what are you going to do when the developer gets there, point at the server, shout "ITZ BROKENS!" and piss yourself?

@voretaq7 ahh but if he started 18 years ago that was the golden age of sysadmins not knowing code

@RyJones Do we know anyone in the Seattle area that's good with Linux and is a DevOps-y guy? I just had somebody call me wanting to interview me, but they need a full-blown DevOps Architect and not a DevOps-y sysadmin.

I can't imagine not being able to read and interpret code in an unfamiliar language.

9:50 PM

@Zypher I started about 14-15 years ago. I was expected to be able to handle a debugger.

@TomO'Connor Haskell.

I can even muddle through haskell ffs. Takes an age, but i can.

yes.

@voretaq7 oh yea but back then all you needed was to be young and know how to install windows to get 80% of the jobs

and that was as an intern - I remember asking my boss about something and getting an hour-long lesson in strace that basically ended with "So next time you won't need to bug me, right?"

and we still have to deal w/ those asshats

9:51 PM

@Zypher "deal with" being the euphemism for "drown them in a bucket like a runt kitten"?

yes

OK, just so long as we're all on the same page :)

Really the only problem I have with that little prat is his flashing his salary

he's in SF

sysadmins who go "I work in the bay area. I make a lot of money. RabblerabbleRABBLErabble" are like middle-managers who wear a Rolex every day

out there they don't have investment bankers to make them feel small when flashing salary

9:53 PM

get the fuck over yourself, you are NOT all that and a bag of potato-chips.

I wonder whether I know anyone who can drag him to the tenderloin and abandon him.

"Oh, i'm a bay-area sysadmin, ergo, I'm a CUNT".

@TomO'Connor . . . people that smarmy tend to be unattractive enough that they'll just get beat up and thrown out"

so now it's some sort of odd status symbol

"And, no, I don't work for Twitter"

@voretaq7 i want some chips now

9:54 PM

of course i bet i know bartenders in manhatten that make more than him

ERMAGHERD, ipo.

@TomO'Connor "well maybe you should, they're going to IPO soon"

@voretaq7 This is not a good thing.

@Zypher I'm SURE I know manhattan bartenders that make more than him :-)

hahaha

9:54 PM

@TomO'Connor no, it's not. But I may take advantage of it to pad some spending cash before twitter goes to shit and I have to write a replacement

@voretaq7 app.net

@TomO'Connor lolz

@TomO'Connor What's the suck quotient on that

Twitter is about a 0.22 which is pretty low for "social" suckage

(they were 0.10 until the new threaded replies shit started fucking up my whole timeline)

now instead of being short, upside-down, asynchronous IRC it's.... just fucked up

@voretaq7 1E-(Graham's Number)

@TomO'Connor lies. Nothing sucks that little.

unless it's powered off.

9:57 PM

@voretaq7 @Wesley does.

@TomO'Connor @Wesley has no bike. His suck quotient is fixed at 1 until he buys one.

@TomO'Connor My secrets!

@voretaq7 Then it's all downhill from there?

@Wesley Everyone has seen the video dear.

@voretaq7 @Wesley is the village bicycle. Everyone's had a ride.

@voretaq7 I was 19 and on peyote, I thought that guy was Cindy Crawford STOP JUDGING MEEEE!!!

9:59 PM

@TomO'Connor Rodeo Kitteh!

@TomO'Connor Everyone needs love!

@Wesley ...no, that was Cindy Crawford. That's why it's embarrassing.

@voretaq7 Oh you're bad.

@Wesley Just drawn that way.

Now now, you two... If you're going to flirt that much, maybe you two need your own room...

(and a bicycle)

10:01 PM

"I thought I was sleeping with Cindy Crawford.... then the drugs wore off and I thought it was Joan Crawford.... then I sobered up and realized it was Joan Rivers. I'm not sure it can get any worse, but someone please give me some tequila!" <-- @Wesley, on Date Night.

@freiheit Fun Facts: I do not own a bicycle

Michael Hampton

WTF. Even I own a bicycle.

@voretaq7 I assume that neither you nor @Wesley own a bicycle, and that that will never change.

@freiheit What do I need with a bike?

@freiheit Planes > Bicycles

I have a car. And I live 2 blocks away from a train station.

@Wesley Actually about the ONLY time I wish I had a bike is when I fly somewhere and there's no crew car, no taxi service, and nothing cool to do within walking distance of the airport.

10:04 PM

@Wesley So now you're going to get a plane instead of a bicyle?

@freiheit I have to get through the pilot's manual first.

@voretaq7 bikefriday.com/bicycles/commuter

@freiheit amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=3405101

@freiheit they actually make REALLY LIGHT ones (like, 5lb) that are basically designed for tossing in the back of a plane

but I lack the fundamental balance required to ride such a thing :-/

sometimes I bring my skateboard with me

@voretaq7 You can ride a skateboard but not a bicycle? The bicycle is basically self-balancing...

@freiheit not if you sit on it and scoot with your hands

10:09 PM

@Magellan no sir, sorry

This sounds familiar: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379833 almost like we were just talking about it

@RyJones Thanks. Guy was a little miffed. Probably thought I was telling him to F off or something.

@Magellan all the devops guys I know here are very well employed. One of them moved to his family farm in Maine while still working in Seattle

Amazon, of course, hoovers those guys up and showers them with money

@RyJones I'm slightly surprised her name doesn't include any glottal stops in the spelling...

(it's rupees, but they don't know)

@RyJones Which is probably explains why I'm at a nearly 100% response rate on the one-sheet resume's I've been sending out. And why people are calling me wanting to interview me for DevOps Architect positions that I'm grossly under-qualified for.