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Between no meetings Friday and read only Friday, I think we should just have a four day work week
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Aug 31, 2022 15:33
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read only friday is for cowards
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Aug 31, 2022 15:35
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read only friday is for people who inevitably get paged or texted at 3 am when something is wrong
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Aug 31, 2022 15:42
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read only friday is for orgs that don't have mature systems in place and by systems I am referring to both the organizational kind, where there is a robust on call and support, and the technical kind, where there is an easy/automatic method to role back changes that have failed, or test changes so you have a higher level of certainty about the change working
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Aug 31, 2022 15:48
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I try to practice read-only Friday ... after the on-call has gone home for the weekend 
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Aug 31, 2022 16:07
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Yeah, but what about Monday morning meetings? We can all agree that those suck, right?
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Aug 31, 2022 16:10
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The Fool posted:read only friday is for orgs that don't have mature systems in place This is true. Charity has a blog post about it. And also when I've been in places where I "instituted" (read: joked about enough until people went along with it) read only fridays, I was the robust on call system, and rolling back changes was occasionally painful. So yeah, not a good practice, entirely self serving, etc. Also good for my sanity and sleep.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:11
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Internet Explorer posted:Yeah, but what about Monday morning meetings? We can all agree that those suck, right? Yeah they're terrible. My place has a "recommendation" for no meetings on Monday or Friday, but no one listens to it. So bright and early we're in a zoom chat talking about what we did last week. It's the worst.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:23
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And everyone is trying to scramble to put out weekend fires while remembering what the gently caress they did last week because no one puts notes in cards.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:32
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The Fool posted:read only friday is for cowards e: vvvvvv 
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Aug 31, 2022 16:32
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edit:  testing is for people who make mistakes Happiness Commando posted:This is true. Charity has a blog post about it. And also when I've been in places where I "instituted" (read: joked about enough until people went along with it) read only fridays, I was the robust on call system, and rolling back changes was occasionally painful. If it hurts, do it more often. Unless you're on call of course. "Do you deploy regularly on Fridays?" should be part of your default set of interview questions.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:33
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Am I on call? No? Do whatevs, then. Side note: My $newJob has zero call/ticket responsibility. Going forward, I'm not sure I can go back to a job that requires an on-call rotation. It is so nice not having to stress about poo poo in off-hours.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:37
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The Fool posted:read only friday is for orgs that don't have mature systems in place So … all of them?
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Aug 31, 2022 16:38
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Sickening posted:So … all of them? Yea, even if you have a robust system with all the ci/cd doodads why even invite the possibility that someones weekend is ruined when you could just do poo poo literally any other day of the week.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:01
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I do almost all of my changes Tues-Thurs nights after 10:30pm. I'm not pushing code through a fancy CI/CD pipeline though. CAB is Monday and Tuesday morning.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:09
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We do all our major prod updates on Sunday overnights. It blows and totally torpedoes my weekend. Thankfully rollbacks that affect me are rare so it’s usually over by 3am.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:22
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Amazon recruiters are wising up to the fact that nobody wants to subject themselves to working for Amazon. The latest recruiting email I got made no direct reference to Amazon but only vague references to a position with retail/Prime. They still had to link to the amazon.jobs website, so that was an immediate no. I'm sure before too long their template will just be "an exciting opportunity with a client under strict NDA". Hughmoris posted:Am I on call? No? Do whatevs, then. My work-life balance and general quality of life improved monumentally when I quit my on-call job for one without. "Comp time" doesn't compensate for missing family activities and having to carry a laptop and your work brain with you everywhere you go.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:37
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Cenodoxus posted:Amazon recruiters are wising up to the fact that nobody wants to subject themselves to working for Amazon. The latest recruiting email I got made no direct reference to Amazon but only vague references to a position with retail/Prime. They still had to link to the amazon.jobs website, so that was an immediate no. I declined an AWS recruiter recently too, just don't want to deal with that poo poo.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:37
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I've been getting some scummy recruiter emailing my work address for a job that is objectively worse than my current one (more in person and working for a "family owned small business  )Also imo 80% of all meetings could just be an email and mayyyyyyybe a phone call if it's really important
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Aug 31, 2022 17:48
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New job started and the past 3 days have been easy breezy because I'll be going to Hawaii for 19 days starting tomorrow so there are zero expectations to do anything. I'm still at my old job and will eject the moment it becomes unbearable but for a brief moment I'm making 300k a year and thats absolutely hilarious to me.
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Aug 31, 2022 18:34
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CitizenKain posted:I know when I was going to school, CS touched nothing about how to use the machines, just how to program. With a bunch of math on top of it. I changed from that to a more computer toucher focused thing after a few years. This is basically why I never finished my CS. By the time we got to C++ (my last attended semester was 1996), I hated programming. I wish something like WGU’s IT program had been around then.
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Aug 31, 2022 19:06
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I think read-only fridays are good in that they help break the "never not working" mindset. Hard lines between work and not-work, friends. If the hard line is padded in the bubble wrap of a day dedicated to learning & administrative overhead, so be it.
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Aug 31, 2022 21:27
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I have an automated release system that publishes all changes made for the day at the end of the day. It does help that my team manages an internal facing product, but we are a global company and someone somewhere in the world is working at any given time.
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Aug 31, 2022 21:40
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Chmod 440 friday
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Aug 31, 2022 21:48
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The Fool posted:read only friday is for orgs that don't have mature systems in place In my experience, this leaves lots of room open for "Well, can't Support just handle it?" types of situations. Especially from leadership. "Should we test this more? Its still failing 98% of the time" "Nahhhh Support will either fix it or roll back and document what happend. That's why they have oncall"
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Aug 31, 2022 22:21
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Friday is basically the weekend, especially in the summer. and that makes Thursday Friday so really you cant expect work to be done after lunch on Thursday
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Aug 31, 2022 22:22
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The Fool posted:I have an automated release system that publishes all changes made for the day at the end of the day. That's a good point that my perspective overlooked. I'm in a strictly-American company now, where most people are working between 8am and 8pm eastern. I do miss working in a truly global company where internal support followed the sun, and the off-shore first level support team had higher standards than "above room temperature".
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Aug 31, 2022 22:22
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you guys stop ruining my platonic ideal with reality
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Aug 31, 2022 22:23
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Wizard of the Deep posted:and the off-shore first level support team had higher standards than "above room temperature". yeah, my scenario really only works with offshore teams that are treated as a first class part of the company with the pay and training that implies. trying to dump those responsibilities on an offshore team that was built for cost savings only makes the problems worse
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Aug 31, 2022 22:26
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I don't want anything scheduled on a Friday because I use that day to tidy up any loose ends before the weekend rather than leaving lots of things in a state of limbo. Monday mornings should also be kept clear as it takes time to get up to speed and plan the week ahead. Being available Monday afternoon and every other day except Friday shouldn't cause anybody problems unless they do everything last minute, which is their problem to sort out.
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Aug 31, 2022 22:33
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I want to get out of retail and was looking at computer science. Is there a good online program to at least try a cs 101 class to see if the field is right for me. I found a ton of them but im leery about a lot of them
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Sep 1, 2022 00:23
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I've never been seen inside a DC this big. Kinda neat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
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Bonzo posted:I've never been seen inside a DC this big. Kinda neat Well yeah it'd be kinda hard to spot you in the middle of 200,000 servers.
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Silver John posted:I want to get out of retail and was looking at computer science. Is there a good online program to at least try a cs 101 class to see if the field is right for me. I found a ton of them but im leery about a lot of them Harvard’s CS50 through Edx is excellent. https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science?delta=0
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The Iron Rose posted:Harvard’s CS50 through Edx is excellent. https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science?delta=0 Thank you! Is it worth getting the verified certificate?
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Bonzo posted:I've never been seen inside a DC this big. Kinda neat Thanks for the link, that was pretty cool to see and found a new tech channel to follow
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I was going crazy trying to find out why my company Google Workspace email signature keeps getting overwritten to defaults (wiping out my title making it look really dumb the way it's laid out). No one else in the org seems to have this problem, and my staff are just  I started a month ago and they're pretty junior. My predecessor kept them in the dark about anything remotely "advanced". I assumed it had to be an app, or BetterCloud misbehaving, but there are very few domain apps installed, and they were easy to vet. BetterCloud swears up and down (via its logs) it only ever touched my account a month ago to add it to the "defaultsignature" GSuite group... but that is a huge clue. But then what? Searching, the only relevant article I could find was this: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/alias_and_signature_settings#java Oh boy, this is a bit above my skillset. Anyway, I think I hit paydirt when I was reasoning this has to be running somewhere, and then found some "projects" running in GCP, both under a service account and under my predecessor's, which was just about to be purged. I guess it's time to learn the Gmail API and get better acquainted with GCP, sigh. It's just funny to me that this knowledge/setup could have been wiped away in an eyeblink, and I'd have looked like a fool when the company's signatures were no longer automated. So I guess I'm lucky as gently caress it was erroring on mine. I feel like my entire IT career has been lucky, stumbling across things that are on the cusp of failing; making me look a lot brighter than I am. edit: lollllllllllll okay, there is an "app.bettercloud.com" and a "g.bettercloud.com" which I was unaware of, and it appears to me that that is the source of my troubles. loving logs. So uh, I'm still dumb. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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teethgrinder posted:I feel like my entire IT career has been lucky, stumbling across things that are on the cusp of failing; making me look a lot brighter than I am. Any of those for new topic? e: I'm not gonna lie, this line hit me loving deep right now. jaegerx fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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I had a citizen somehow make their way to my office today. They were seeking advice on who could teach them how to build a website. I'm still a little bewildered because like... I could almost see the request making sense but also, I wouldn't walk into a court room and interrupt the judge to ask them where I could go to law school.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I had a citizen somehow make their way to my office today. They were seeking advice on who could teach them how to build a website. I'm still a little bewildered because like... I could almost see the request making sense but also, I wouldn't walk into a court room and interrupt the judge to ask them where I could go to law school. Do you work for govt? Because I'm now imagining a scene from Parks and Rec.
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