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I’ve been more “devops” then SA for the past 10 years and some of us can code and at a very decent level.

Having said that author states they’re the first to admit they can’t code. That’s true, and I’ve even heard it from very competent that coders.

If you say you can code to a software engineer that can open the door in interviews to obnoxious, dick measuring obscure code questions which frankly isn’t fair.

The trend is for ops roles to be a lot more code heavy and if I’m interviewing a true software engineer for a devops role it would be unfair to ask some obscure BGP routing gotcha or delving deep into Linux internals no normal person would encounter on a daily basis.

Just my person gripe..

I'm a casual watcher of his show (maybe 1 show every few weeks). Spotify has made no investment into their platform to support podcasts. No notification system for new episodes, no already listened to tracking, no subscriptions or an area where i can find all my podcasts.

I like the idea of having my music and podcasts all in one place which working across all my devices (Linux, iOS, Windows) and i gave up on them. Spotify may be ubiquitous but they're not engineered for podcasts.

I was just looking for a site search solution three days ago for a side project I'm working on. I found Elastic's offering but found the lack of a free tier(no 14-day trail crap) off-putting. I'll give these guys a try. Grats on the raise!

I heard some economist call Uber "the greatest transfer of wealth in a very long time". What Uber is doing is taking investors money and subsidizing your Uber ride to a restaurant.

They are providing value and I'm a casual user myself. However the consumer price right now is arguably unsustainable against the stated quote above. To survive both of them are going to have to raise prices

I've had something similar happen to me once. I'm DevOps, very systems focused. I was leaving Cisco and got on an interview panel with 4 network engineers at some place.

I caveated I know networking better than most but I'm by no stretch a network engineer. They agreed and explicitly stated the position was on the systems side and it was fine.

The interview was only an hour and half. About 30 minutes into they ran out of questions and started to get bored. They tell they're all studying for their CCIE's and decided to start borrowing questions from the final exam.

They decided to play "lets stump the Cisco guy". And did they? YES! Did they stop? NO! This was 7+ years ago and I'll never forget how uncomfortable and bad that interview was. They managed to dredge up all these arcane, stupid questions, some of which bore no practical function.. and listened to me "I dont know" for a solid hour

I'm sure it left them with a bad impression of me, and it certainly left me not wanting to work there.

We gloss over them because:

1. Your first point about "unproven cancer treatment" has an overly narrow focus on the edge of medical research. These cases are yes something that needs to be addressed, but they are far from the norm of normal medical care.

2. I've never heard anyone ask for anything free related to healthcare. There is very little truly free care in the US. The conversation here is about price transparency and what is considered reasonable.

> I'm a little disappointed in the final "conclusion" of the report, though. The end of the executive summary basically chalks the breach up to two things: "Equifax's IT management structure was complicated" and "Equifax uses legacy software that is hard to secure". These are valid points, but these are also issues that nearly every single major corporation in the world faces, and yet many of them still manage to prevent (or at least mitigate) major breaches. These aren't good enough reasons to explain why Equifax failed so spectacularly compared to every other bureaucratic company with legacy software.

Sure lots of companies can manage legacy software, arguably though Equifax's target on their head is substantially larger than most companies. They are the holy grail of personal data. Nothing should be legacy with them

Not OP, but I spent 5 years at Cisco. It wouldn't be terribly hard to hide opex in a company that size.. there's a good deal of discretion given to middle management with their budgets and non-existent oversight.

Ex employee of 5 years here. It was open secret that the system was being abused.

What they would do is post a notice of intent to hire an H1B by posting the job listing in break rooms along with requirements that were clearly senior level and included a salary range for the job drastically below market average. No self respecting local would even bother applying. That's how they got away with claiming they couldn't find good local talent. They have no interest in competing in the local market.

I sold my house in the bay area a year and half ago. Mine was bought by a young Indian family and funded by their parents who were both fancy doctors and 1+ million in liquid assets (asset proof was provided to me by the sellers as part of their initial offer).

I asked my realtor because I was very curious. Folks can also gift against a lifetime limit not just the yearly. There's just some extra forms the donor needs to file with the IRS but it is possible. The limit there is something like 5 million

My current indie web app is still in development so final numbers for prod are TBD. However I'm using it for

* Storing time counters on user actions (timestamp of last time a user posted/edited X, meant to be a throttling mechanism against abuse)

* Site content caching, around 20-50kb per page, each page being user generated content

Sizes will obviously vary on traction so not sure about the final numbers.

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My last 9-to-5 employer was a very well known and my largest caching tier in Redis there was 512GB in a cluster configuration. I'm using the same server configuration and sharding logic for the indie thing, just on a smaller scale

Currently been working on a web app for about 8 months.

Python for the backend under the argument of "build using what you know". ReactJS for frontend development because Python for frontend work I find very antiquated.

Architecture wise I'm hosted in AWS. Data is stored in MySQL and Redis. All self hosted because I'm to cheap to pay per request pricing and the overhead is very minor when done right when rolling my own

"Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaign teams during the US presidential race and stole a ''serious amount of files" in an operation that US government cyber experts believe originated from China."

Probably because it wasnt one foreign hostile power directing attempting to sway one specific candidate. Or perhaps because there was no evidence or allegations against Obama or his circle was involved in treasonous activity with said hostile power.

Come on man.. there's mountains of evidence and countless stories indicating foreign involvement to help R's in our election system. Your logic could have held some circumstantial weight if there was one, maybe two stories but its countless. It can't be all "fake"