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neil

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Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.

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python is usually the next step up in admin land

python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it

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You missed one:

  • To let others at least have some insight into what you’re doing so you can take a freakin’ vacation every once in a while
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Don’t take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with “we’re a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!” that they’d cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.

Everything has its own set of problems.

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tldr is great. I can’t stand --help output that drones on like Proust.

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Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”

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Yeah, advertising problems that can be fixed by a solution is not exactly big tech’s strong suit.

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I’m not quite sure what they have in mind, but I’m mentally visualizing the family scene where grandma calls and instead of passing the phone around, you just transfer to the next person on the list.

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Thought I might follow up since I had an interview today - I never stop interviewing - and was asked about duration. My off-the-cuff response was “if a company invests in its employees, offers growth and promotes internally, then I will work for a place longer. If it does not and only offers a dead-end role with no appreciable growth, then I will look for that opportunity elsewhere.”

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throw yourself to the wolves

embrace the wolves

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