argvzero

My main point was that all this stuff can be learned without a degree, but should always be learned, and that these jobs mainly require skills not taught in school; that charm goes a long way, etc.

Your parsing of what I said is unfortunate and your characterization of what I was espousing ('sociopathic', 'cheaters') is wrong.

EDIT: Try to interpret what I said in a positive way.

I was talking about personal intellectual growth, not obtaining things you don't deserve via lies.

I was talking only about bootstrapping yourself into a career you want - of course you must then master whatever it is you have set out to do or will be found out and fired.

If you want a job and know you can learn it, then obtain that job however you can and prove yourself.

Rails Is Omakase - A Dramatic Reading youtube.com

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An Open Letter To Women In Technology medium.com

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Comment · 13 years ago

Sounds good - I'll see you there!

Comment · 13 years ago

Chief Architect at Basho here:

Saying Riak is categorically non-operations-oriented is a bit hyperbolic, but I will be the first to acknowledge that we need even more visibility into failure-recovery / degraded mode situations. I've spoken to a few customers who have "cheat sheets" of Erlang console commands they use to debug things like handoff slowness or poor performance in general. This alone means we need to do better,

On the other hand, Riak continues to function in scenarios where other databases would be completely unavailable. I'll take immature visibility during those situations over complete unavailability any day,

I appreciate your feedback - I can assure you that this is something we're constantly working on and you'll see improvements with each release.