sacrilicious

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I'm sure the author appreciates your comparisons to Einstein! It's apt. Oh, and look at the publish date before you decide the 'zeitgeist-headline-grabbing' factor.

Comment · 10 years ago

Is this a minimum so that the 2k number is whatever the net would be, so that people who currently have jobs would have their income supplemented?

I was very interested in Even as a company designed to approach challenges like these. I can't imagine how difficult it is to take on a study like this, I'm rooting for them to be successful and hope they share the resulting data. It should always be close to our thoughts - lack of a living wage causing long commutes from soon-to-be gentrified neighborhoods, all in the shadow of Chomsky's Responsibility of Intellectuals.

Comment · 11 years ago

Montefiore Health System | Full Time | NY Onsite

No remote, but telework 1 day a week after the first 6 months.

Part Hospital/part EDU, Montefiore is looking for Mac SysAdmins in the NYC area. http://jobs.mdoes.com (the title is Desktop Analyst)

This is a job you can grow in; I was able to open-source a good amount of code, (including contributions to munki and autopkg,) spoke at conferences like PSU MacAdmins, and the boss and I both spoke at the MacTech Conference. If you're as maniacal as I am about the devops mindset and sharing what you know, this may be for you. (There's iOS-related and regular IT customer service-type tasks as well, but mostly you'd be sheilded from having to be reactive.) Major aspects of this working environment include: - Customers you'll respect, who have enough self-confidence to reciprocate - Coworkers that want to work hard and make you look good - A boss and leadership that give you room while challenging your ambition - Benefits like... working at a hospital, and a college. It's pretty great, one example: every week you earn ~10 hours off.

We're hoping you like the idea of making a difference with us. No ping pong, no rock band, and you go home at 5. Take the generous time off. Have the resources to experiment and reach your potential. For the tool-builders doing keyword searches: sure, there's a good amount of django, flask, and (py-)objective-c. But we're also getting the job done with puppet, munki, and autopkg. If you (or anybody you know) might be interested, please reach out: @sacrilicious on twitter, Allister Banks on linkedin, Allister on macadmins Slack, and [email protected]

(No recruiters or folks looking for freelance-type contracts, please)

Comment · 11 years ago

Montefiore Health System | Full Time | NY Onsite

Part Hospital part EDU, Montefiore is looking for Mac SysAdmins in the NYC area.

http://jobs.mdoes.com (Desktop Analyst - pardon the HR-ness, and we don't actually use Remedy...)

This is a job you can grow in; I was able to open-source a good amount of code, (including contributions to munki and autopkg,)

spoke at conferences like PSU MacAdmins, and the boss and I both spoke at the MacTech Conference.

If you're as maniacal as I am about the devops mindset and sharing what you know, this may be for you.

(There's iOS-related and regular customer service tasks as well, but mostly you'd be sheilded from having to be reactive.)

Major aspects of this working environment include:

- Customers you'll respect, who have enough self-confidence to reciprocate

- Coworkers that want to work hard and make you look good

- A boss and leadership that give you room while challenging your ambition

- Benefits like... working at a hospital, and a college. Every week you earn ~10 hours off.

We're hoping you like the idea of making a difference with us. No ping pong, no rock band.

Go home at 5. Take the generous time off. Have the resources to experiment and reach your potential.

For the tool-builders doing keyword searches: sure, there's a good amount of django, flask, and (py-)objective-c.

But we're also getting the job done with puppet, munki, and autopkg. If you (or anybody you) know might be interested,

please reach out: @sacrilicious on twitter, Allister Banks on linkedin, Allister on macadmins Slack, and [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago

I've read this story before, and often think about how if people don't have examples in life these 'epiphanies' are hard to come by. Non-fictional heroes may get more attention with the access to knowledge we have nowadays, but there's still the problem of focusing in and having the possibility made real in our own minds.

My story: - The pretty big theater I worked for had a crackerjack unix head running a windows/exchange environment like it was no big thing, all from an iBookG3. I was in the shower, at some point in the late fall. and I thought to myself 'I'd like to have a job/get paid to "fix computers"'. I sent away for Apple's Tech Training, someone's husband was starting a consulting company, and 10 years later... well, I like what I do and am lucky to have as many advances as I've had in my short career. Workstation-level sysadmin may not be highly regarded, but at least the book I wrote wasn't by hand.

Comment · 11 years ago

Good for you making an app to scratch your own itch! Pardon being negative when I know you are sharing some of your self with the world by showing HN. I don't even mind the runtime tomfoolery, but it's disingenuous to say "Apple doesn't trust you to make grown-up decisions yet about what applications you want to run".

First off, "yet"? They're going to change they're mind at some point about code signing?

And second, nw.js apps like Kitematic can sign their code, no matter how quick a hack this is don't belittle Apple's security to explain away your laziness of not signing your app.

Thank you for sharing, although the glamorizing of killing yourself for work is also a bit disturbing.

Comment · 12 years ago

The zdw-mentioned autopkg has the capability of looking at your installed AppStore apps and checking for updates, and further can package them(with embedded receipt/DRM) to a patch mgmt system. https://github.com/autopkg/nmcspadden-recipes/tree/master/Ap... It works with any pkg deployment system, although autopkg itself ships with Munki support. Ansible and osxc by extension are about ConfigMgmt, of course, but conflating mgmt systems is common and understandable.

Comment · 13 years ago

Mazel Tov, if people in underserved markets find online arrangement and pricing simplicity a real value-add, more power to 'em. However, I live in <insert large city here,> where the local laundromats all do free pickup as a service anyway, so I have a hard time not thinking that for urban areas 'just walk the street nearby or talk to your neighbors, people!' Or, just do your laundry like you do your dishes in places that have machines in your building - unless you're so important and valuable you have a staff to arrange these things.

Comment · 14 years ago

Vaporware at the moment, but keep an eye out for Github's https://github.com/boxen which purports to do similar with Puppet. Demo'd here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlKXRdSAZhY While I'm linking up stuff, another take on masterless Puppet is https://github.com/unixorn/miyamoto

So many of these systems are still too big and complicated. I consider myself an amateur, and therefore I bootstrap with manually getting Dropbox, 1Password, and then update babushka links to do the rest from the canonical sources via github.

Comment · 14 years ago

Comment · 15 years ago

This inspired me to clean up my Boxcar too, and therefore see how little Github is notifying me about....

Comment · 15 years ago

As a premise for a blog post this isn't a particularly veiled attempt at armchair quarterbacking twitter, and closing with 'k, now go follow me everybody!' clangs instead of adding to the argument. I guess people who use this reasoning as their entire purpose for interacting online turn me off to the point that I don't anticipate ever joining Facebook, and still find very little compelling about G+. People post to G+'s generic-looking interface instead of blogging, and get piled on with comments, losing both personality and clarity in contrast to something like Tumblr or traditional blogging. Twitter and Tumblr are two great tastes that taste great together, however you want to utilize them in my opinion.

Comment · 15 years ago

My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give to this comment.

Comment · 15 years ago

I can't really reconcile the hope in this argument that apple could enable/allow more constructive and innovative business models to flourish... with the(at this point) unconvincing menace it's being to itself and others. I don't see the subscription move as trying to directly favor Apple's stores: they _don't_do_subscriptions_.

I honestly can see this move as being more 'in bed' with old media than a type of not-invented-here syndrome. In the iMovie intro yesterday the CEO of Apple said they're trying to do the platform right with an app they like developing, but also raises the bar to a place other developers should shoot for. I'm not saying to take that as parallel to 'the brand of capitalism we foster is naturally better', but who knows if there couldn't be an upside(once things get clarified) that's natural for the market and doesn't smack of greed.

Comment · 15 years ago

Total conjecture, but 3 ways come to mind: De-duplication, compression, and hierarchical storage management. Keep less-frequently accessed parts of the data 'Nearline', and snapshot the lower-demand, older data slightly less often. Continuous data protection appliances were probably designed and tuned specifically for this problem set, and one could assume it was built into the original architecture so that an appropriate amount of the infrastructure already had backup space in mind and accounted for.