|
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Our remote manager bought us an expensive HP floor-mount server
| like a dishwasher. It was over spec'd and underpowered. And we
| didn't need a server, not for work.
|
| My colleague loaded up his entire ripped CD collection and we got
| Bluetooth headphones and had it serve up tunes all day. Back when
| that was a thing. Only thing it ever did.
| kubb wrote:
| My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him
| around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-
| directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he
| proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of
| understanding what's useful or possible.
| telotortium wrote:
| Are they planning on hiring more reports?
| roncesvalles wrote:
| He's around so that your skip has to manage 1 person instead of
| 2.
| bitlad wrote:
| Atleast your manager doesn't do anything. I have seen managers
| who do stuff and ruin the work that people have done.
| amanj41 wrote:
| "But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of,
| for he is too dangerous"
| lordnacho wrote:
| Chesterton's Manager?
| MathMonkeyMan wrote:
| I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a
| better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in
| a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.
| nickpeterson wrote:
| I think people often convince themselves that becoming a
| manager is a path for those who couldn't hack it. In reality
| it's a completely different set of problems. If you're a
| decent developer with phenomenal soft skills, there is a very
| good chance you'd be better in management or sales than
| writing code.
| colechristensen wrote:
| In my experience quite a few managers are there to do cargo
| cult activities mostly involving power point presentations
| and planning for their managers. In the worst situation it
| seemed like the vast majority of effort and salary spend
| went towards satisfying the VP's appetite for reporting
| when engineers were very understaffed they focused on
| expanding to new layers of management instead of hiring
| ICs.
|
| _some_ of this management can be useful but often a lot of
| it is not, at best. As organizations age companies become
| mostly about advancing careers of middle management and the
| things the company actually does become secondary.
| yunwal wrote:
| Being a good manager is in my experience just as hard if not
| harder. But, it's much easier to be a bad manager and keep
| your job.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Having been both, being a really good manager is hard in a
| very different set of ways.
|
| Depending what itch you're trying to scratch, and what
| opportunities are available in your org, it might be just as
| rewarding to be a tech lead, feature lead, mentor, cross-team
| liaison, steering committee member, or possibly other roles
| rather than team lead / manager.
| Gigachad wrote:
| My manager isn't a programmer but uses ChatGPT to educate
| himself on a topic and attempts to read the code to see what's
| happening before asking one of us if anything is still unclear.
| nickpeterson wrote:
| You know, summarizing what code does in regular English via
| ChatGPT would be an interesting thing. Does it already do
| that?
| drc500free wrote:
| It definitely can do this, though obviously it can details
| wrong here and there. For example:
| Describe what this code does in clear english:
| from datetime import datetime import pytz
| utcmoment_naive = datetime.utcnow() utcmoment =
| utcmoment_naive.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc) #
| print "utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive) #
| python 2 print("utcmoment_naive:
| {0}".format(utcmoment_naive)) print("utcmoment:
| {0}".format(utcmoment)) localFormat =
| "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" timezones =
| ['America/Los_Angeles', 'Europe/Madrid',
| 'America/Puerto_Rico'] for tz in timezones:
| localDatetime = utcmoment.astimezone(pytz.timezone(tz))
| print(localDatetime.strftime(localFormat))
|
| ChatGPT Response:
|
| This Python code does the following: 1.
| Imports two modules, datetime and pytz. 2. Gets the
| current time in UTC using the datetime module and assigns
| it to a variable named 'utcmoment_naive'. 3. Uses the
| pytz module to create a timezone-aware datetime object and
| assigns it to a variable named 'utcmoment'. 4. Prints
| the values of the 'utcmoment_naive' and 'utcmoment'
| variables. 5. Defines a date format to be used for
| printing local date and time. 6. Defines a list of
| three timezones. 7. Loops over the list of timezones
| and converts the UTC time to the local time in each
| timezone using the 'astimezone' method of the 'datetime'
| object and the 'pytz.timezone' method. 8. Prints the
| local time in each timezone in the specified date format.
|
| Overall, this code gets the current time in UTC, converts
| it to the local time in three different timezones, and
| prints the local time in each timezone in a specified
| format.
| thatcherthorn wrote:
| Correct
| znpy wrote:
| The author makes a good progression in their reasoning but then
| somehow arrives to the wrong conclusion:
|
| > So when someone says that Amazon has invested a lot of money
| into security I think about the fact that Ubisoft spent $1M on a
| backup solution that didn't work for the game that would have had
| the best use of it.
|
| The missing point here is thst ubisoft is/was spending money for
| something outside of its domain of expertise, and managed to make
| a suboptimal decision. Amazon however is spending money on two of
| its core domains of expertise: building and managing datacenters
| and building and operating web services.
|
| Not to mention, aws is very clear and explicit about what is
| their responsibility and what's your responsibility (security of
| the cloud vs security in the cloud).
|
| Sad to see such a nice post ending like that.
| daneel_w wrote:
| The implied notion that the manager really had no idea what they
| actually wanted, or at the very least were unable to sensibly
| describe the requirements, is entirely believable, but from a
| systems development perspective nothing in this article makes any
| sense.
| binarymax wrote:
| Not sure if it's just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning
| and can't load the page (DDG mobile browser)
| Aachen wrote:
| Works for me on a random old android browser (that wraps around
| standard webview afaik), using Android 10 or 11 not sure
| jborean93 wrote:
| I get the same on Firefox on Linux (Fedora 37). It looks like
| the server is responding with an ECDHE key exchange using a
| SHA1 signature algorithm which is disabled on modern versions
| of OpenSSL. I'm not sure why it works on Chrome, maybe their
| TLS client is a bit more lax. You can see openssl fail to
| verify the signature locally with `openssl s_client -connect
| blog.dijit.sh:443` due to the wrong signature type.
|
| At least for me on Fedora, I believe Firefox uses the system
| policies and Fedora has set policies to block SHA1 signature
| algorithms https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoS
| ettings2....
| sbierwagen wrote:
| What version of Android?
|
| Qualys shows a bunch of errors and an incorrect cert chain but
| it does manage to get a working connection on almost all test
| browsers:
| https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.dijit.sh...
| zem wrote:
| their manager paid for a valid SSL cert that they never used!
| techsurfer wrote:
| Where I work we have a 10K a year server budget but used to just
| use free Heroku instance
| labster wrote:
| Yeah, but this article is about keeping backups, and Heroku
| deletes data from paying customers without notifying them
| first.
| unixhero wrote:
| I would have done the same
| neves wrote:
| Didn't read, but I have a life insurance that I never used :-)
| jldugger wrote:
| Well, then you missed the story. It's more like a life
| insurance policy that kills you when you turn 67, and pays out
| when you turn ninety.
| Etheryte wrote:
| Have you considered that there may be more to a four-page essay
| than a short title can convey?
| version_five wrote:
| While theoretically true, it's so often not the case that I'm
| not surprised people just use the headline to infer what the
| article explains.
| vorpalhex wrote:
| It may be wiser to stop reading, plug your ears with wax,
| and hide in your room until death takes you.
|
| If you can't read for pleasure on the site you are reading
| for pleasure, something is wrong.
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