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Comment on Prairie Developer Conference – Review by palm-tree

palm-tree — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:38 +0000

I have to say that I completely agree with the hacking hardware bit. Built a cluster of Raspberry Pi’s for shits and giggles and it worked fantastically. Then I took it apart, and made 1 into a little mobile sniffing station, that has a battery life of 2 days, and I can access from the net(via mobile dongle). It is a tiny little thing I can hide in most spaces, and provides and interesting attack vector when pen testing.

I love the hardware hacking community, they are helpful and insightful and it is definitely a change of pace. I highly recommend it.

Comment on Prairie Developer Conference – Review by caffgeek

caffgeek — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:25:25 +0000

Ugh…1.4GB in dependencies to download…this could take a while.

Comment on 20 GOTO 10 by caffgeek

caffgeek — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:21:03 +0000

Yeah, we can always look at the past and think about how we could have done some things differnetly and been in a different situation today. I know looking back at my career, had I pursued learning more in the first few years and learned then, what I’ve learned in the last few, I’d be farther ahead. However, I’m still far far ahead of the curve considering how shockingly bad most developers are.

Comment on 20 GOTO 10 by palm-tree

palm-tree — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:11:12 +0000

Man this is a bit before my time, but a great read. I wish I got into programming earlier than I did. Would’ve made the present a lot easier lol.

Comment on I’m an Ass because I give a Shit by caffgeek

caffgeek — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:04:38 +0000

It’s not like those stickers do anything. They’re like the “No left turn during rush hour signs”. There are FOUR of them at an intersection on my way home. It’s quite comical that there are that many. And sure enough, every day there’s some moron making a left turn absolutely screwing up traffic flow…and where are the police? Busy setting up photo radar

Comment on I’m an Ass because I give a Shit by Kojisan

Kojisan — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:56:51 +0000

This to me looks like musings of a feather ruffler! You’re not an ass for wanting to apply yourself and wanting your product to look good. By not wanting to be a slacker, you’ve already gone against the grain. Keep challenging the status quo I’d say. But then I’m a feather ruffler.

I was cracking up at your description of the warning sticker. How often do we shit like that on things. It’s hilarious! And warning signs have come a long way since their creation.

How dumb must the populace be?

And it will only get worse. Ever see the movie Idiocracy?

Hilarious!

Comment on I’m an Ass because I give a Shit by palm-tree

palm-tree — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:56:17 +0000

Completely possible that are devs suck. I don’t think I have a solid enough knowledge base to know that. Then again they are “Financial Engineers” and “Quants” maybe they are just naturally A-Social.

Comment on I’m an Ass because I give a Shit by gibble

gibble — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:47:37 +0000

Well written code doesn’t need comments. Variables, functions, classes, etc should be named clearly and follow SOLID principles. Maybe your developers suck

Comment on I’m an Ass because I give a Shit by palm-tree

palm-tree — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:24:37 +0000

Well coming from an Admin. My experience with the DEV’s at work is a bit tense but overall we are part of the same team.

However it absolutely boggles my mind how little some DEV’s know about the Systems Administration world. Certain best practices that come naturally to Admins are a chore to DEV’s at least in my experience.

Oh and reading code written by a DEV vs. Written by an admin is night and day in our shops. Mainly because the Admins comment on every single piece of the puzzle. This makes trouble shooting easier for us.

In the end I think it just depends on the shop.

Comment on Change and working conditions. by palm

palm — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:23:44 +0000

I can resonate with sunlight = motivation. Before we moved into our new office, our office 10 people where in a 20 x 20 room which was part of a office hotel type deal where offices are rented out for transitioning businesses. In this room was our 1 rack full of servers etc. And NO windows. It was an inclosed box. In the winter I’d walk in in darkness and leave in darkness; sometimes 2-3 weeks at a time. So when we moved into our 6500 sq ft behemoth with many windows, productivity increased significantly.