withabeard

@withabeard@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mission to the Cloud Server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  20+ years in industry as a UNIX and Linux admin. Informed but potentially biased.

  Linux admins have tended in my career to be more expensive. They tend to be more week rounded as engineers. Linux by it’s nature, especially in the past, required you to be a DBA, network admin, server admin, developer all in one. They can often fix problems quicker than the support engineer elsewhere can read the ticket.

  That means you pay more per engineer, MBAs don’t like this. This is a critical problem. You pay less overall in staff costs because you need less staff, MBAs don’t understand this. MBAs like support contracts so they can offset blame.

  A small, concise, tight nit, well payed admin team who have ownership and care about a product will be cheaper, and have more uptime than the alternatives. But they’ll also be obstinate, high payed, entitled and ready to jump ship if you mistreat them. That means you need actual diplomacy and social skills to manage them well.

  A small tight nit team with product ownership will need a kick up the arse at times to change “what ain’t broke”. So when product requirements need a radically different solution that can take time to change.

  There is a reason that industry breaking startups in the early 2000s had their corporate backbones on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me sir, we appear to have a different definition of “winning”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Remove the romance element from it.

  If the bottle spins, someone has to spend time in your company doing something you enjoy. You and your friends all agree. The bottle lands on you, and suddenly whatever it was you enjoy is not just “unenjoyable” but is actively repulsive to the other people. Ironically, I’d expect people to be repulsed by having to do half my hobbies, so this isn’t a perfect reframing.

  Apologies if I’m not being sensitive to your thought patterns. But there must be a way of reframing this that you can see why someone would be upset that their “friends” find them actively repulsive to even be around.