Just made that gif

lol ty. felt good. Told my little sister who is a roided out beastlet and even she was impressed.

Pics of sister?

God, I am doing this contract job sort of as a favor and it has me so ****ing rustled. They do not have their **** together and they don't even realize the extent to which they don't have it together. They think they need me for 20 hours to fix their **** but what they need is probably to have me work on it full time for a year and I'd rather man the glory hole in a turkish prison.

I probably won't be able to sleep, so riled up.

nyquil

and clients are the worst. Are you in construction?

I've heard the glory hole in turkish prison is tops, though.

KC - A+ work. Your lightish mood and slight positivity makes me think you can make a serious run at 2014 being the year you turn your life around from grump and frump to pump and bump.

It used to knock me out pretty good, now I feel like it doesn't. I had some when I was sick a few weeks back with no effect, except that I wake up feeling hungover.

Software development. Their code sucks, they have no way to test it (well, they do, but they don't understand it and it doesn't work, I have come to understand). From a testability standpoint their systems are just a complete mess. In order to do any kind of test you need:
a database server
4 webservers
a load balancer
some kind of reverse proxy firewall bull**** thing
amazon s3 server instances
this horse**** testing software that I hate already

In any sane world, you would test stuff with:
1 webserver, 1 database server

So I can't tell which of those pieces the problem is in, and since I can't even SEE any of them except teh first two (which look fine) I don't ****ing know what to do about it.

I left without scheduling a time to come back. If they want me on site again they are going to have to tell me what the **** it is they want me to do.

IANAD (I am not a developer) but I do work with a team of them and that list you posted first makes absolutely no sense and it's likely whoever was lead developer for their software should be taken out and shot.

The second list actually makes sense.

Is this a situation where they created a frankensteinian amalgamation of disparate systems and then taped them together with weak Elmer's glue? We've come across quite a few websites that seemed to be built that way.

I think they have a legacy system that they inherited from some mad genius that no one really understands. So they hack limply at it, and when it doesn't seem to perform well enough their answer is "load balancers" or "more ram" or whatever. I talked briefly with one developer who sort of threw up his hands and said he "didn't understand the webserver very much" which, for this webserver, is a HUGE deal, because it's not like Apache. It's a webserver that integrates very tightly the typical webserver stuff with an integrated programming language, built in database access, etc. If you don't understand the webserver, then you don't understand your application.

I was so ****ing irked that you can't even contact the webservers directly and do stuff on them - it redirects you back to the load balancer.

You *can* power down all but one of the servers connected to the balancer, but it's still there.

And btw I think I pretty conclusively showed that even with the load balancer 1 server performs better than 2.

The reason they hired me, btw, is that I specialized in this particular webserver 10+ years ago, i.e. when it was still relatively popular (it is mostly dead now). The fact that they're still limping along with it makes me think that they're just beating a dead horse and trying to get some money out of it without rewriting the thing or porting it.

legacy code/designs/systems are by far the biggest pain in my ass at work. a team I've worked on has pretty much sealed their fate by refusing to throw everything away and starting over in our validation environment.

jfc how many brogrammers are in H&F?

i once wrote a script in python, does that count?

I took a COBOL class at community college and it was so hard my friend helped me and gave me all his stuff and I just changed the names.

That must count.

Anyone have an opinion on Netapp? I wouldn't mind getting in to the grownup side of computers, opposed to making desktops 1337 as ****. Someone said I should take a Netapp bootcamp for like 6-7k and then go get my cert. Any thoughts on that would be greatly appreciated.

ima just leave this here

i am not a programmer. as sylar would say, "lol hardware".

I could draw stuck figures with the turtle in LOGO.

Where I work we have 3 NetApp clusters. They are a great company, have a great product and in many ways provides much better performance then EMC. They are still small but are growing constantly.

We also went through an evaluation to replace an aging EMC SAN that held our Epic Cache database - our Electronic Medical Record software. So performance, scalability and ease of administration was important. Both EMC and NetApp were told what we needed and you could chalk it up to EMC being dumb, but of the two offerings NetApp won hands down.

We also started moving our virtual machines to NetApp storage via NFS over 10Gbit from one cluster to a new one.

So if you're serious about grown up storage - go for it.


FWIW I am not an admin of our NetApp clusters, but I am most certainly a consumer and I know stuffs.

All you nerds can work for me (except for CB who is obv unemployable).

You're welcome.

This comment used to work before you let slip that you are just another cog in the wheel of the system and don't even own the company you work for.

Such a plebeian existence.

Still lolling at rape train.

Everyone's a cog

bill gates itt

Only to the minimal extent necessary.

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Remember my failed drive? Of course you do, I labeled it "blue". I got curious and looked up my index and the hdd had more movies I actually love than any other drive. Devastated, I was unwilling to give up.

I start effin around a little and seeing what's going on. I can defrag the drive, check for errors, just not open it? No errors? lol? yadda yadda yadda permissions got all sorts of screwed up for some reason, despite being an admin, and the only user. wtf. Did some BS and added myself to the list and boom! Castaway, Dark Knight, Die Hard 1-3, I am Legend, Ocean's 11, Planet Earth 1-4, and Untouchables are back.
#sickweekend

Jdock,

You didn't really need to go beyond dry anal raping of the girlfriend to see I'm clearly correct that he's lost what little he had.