If it's running on Windows it's not production.

The overall theme of my job is being fast. Unfortunately our managers don't understand that if you are efficient you become fast as a result. So all we are doing is basically a lot of quick occupational therapy and blowing hot air.

- don't get fired
- start teaching side business
- take care of family/wife

If I wanted to become a hacker here is what I would do to cover my steps: 1.) Buying a used Laptop with cash, and picking it up in person.
2.) Using random coffee shops to work by dice roll. Obviously at least a d20 and at least 20 coffee shops.
3.) Installing Linux, probably Manjaro. (Not Kali because I've heard that is watched)
What are your thoughts?

Just because I don't believe in "the mission", doesn't mean I am not coming in and not giving up to ~60% every work day.

Don't play the game, play the players. ;-P

I made the perfect situational joke:
I was explaining physics to a coworker and stating that the only particles that are important for everyday life are protons, electrons and neutrons.
CW:" What about neutrinos? You don't care about them?"
Me:" No, I don't. Wanna know why?"
CW:"Yes, tell me."
ME:" Because, they don't matter!"

So my company is using the cheapest software products out there; to save money of course. Naturally you pay what you get for, aka shitty products. I wonder how much money we waste by demotivated engineers using this Scheisse!

I am trying to get my company to support Linux (Fedora) for engineers. Currently we support Windows and Mac. Does any of you have some good reasons for my case to make my argument for the business perspective?

When you leave your hood and the season changes instantly ...

I am introducing the Thunderdome policy:
2 Tickets enter 1 Ticket leaves. (Aka 1 Ticket gets worked on the other one gets deleted.)

Learning from Micrsoft; I present: LDD
License Driven Development

Software Installation happens through "point and click", also does system configuration and infrastructure. Servers are _pets_ and get reused and re-purposed after decommissioning. Command Lines, Terminals and scripting languages are buh and scary; We don't use them. Repetitive tasks are good, because once you know them you can do them faster and better. Windows servers are good, because we want to be like Microsoft ...

Just had the best meeting since I started here. The DBAs couldn't attend so we decided to postpone the meeting for two weeks. After that we started talking about beer and now I have 5 names of different beers that I want to try :-)

I am always looking forward to the weekend to have some time to work on my side projects, and then I can't get my ass up to do it.

muahaha I hacked one of our Auditors. He wants to learn how to code now and automate parts of his work. Don't teach them how to build a ship, teach them the joy of the sea. :-)

So on the weekend I picked up a project again I started 6-8 month ago. Due to automated scripts and documentation I could reach the point where I left of month before in a few hours. It's nice when writing docs and scripts pays off :-D

New Office Rule 534c: Never deploy sober!

My boss was not opposed to the idea giving me the title "Production Implementation and Maintenance Professional". If I send it to him in an E-mail he forwards it to HR.

Why is customer support sometimes so shitty? A coworker good a Win10 Laptop (Win7 before) and one program wasn;t working there anymore. So we reached out to the support asking to help us fix it. After over a month later and x-amount of E-mails back and forth. The answer was, you have to upgrade everything (Webserver, Database, Client) to use Win10 (no backwards compatibility). Which is fine, I don't mind upgrading and understand that software sometimes is not backwards compatible. BUT THAT IS SOMETHIGN TO STATE IN THE 2nd E-MAIL. Not an infinity later after a tiring back and forth of nonsense.

My python brings all the devs to the cloud,
cause my code is bigger than yours
damn right its cleaner than yours
I can teach you but I have charge

Enough corporate Internet for today :-)

If got this code with the 20second sleep statement. And I am not really sure if it is a good idea to have it ...

def start_instance(self):
instance=self.ec2.Instance(self.iId)
instance.start()
while instance.state['Name'] != 'running':
sleep(5)
instance=self.ec2.Instance(self.iId)
sleep(20) #Let's sleep another 20 for the server to be really up
return instance.state

Can I have some advice regarding best practices?

Theoretically I can build multicloud, geo reudant, load balanced, auto scaling infrastructure. But most of my workday I spent in outlook writing E-mails and arranging up meetings.

CW:"We need this."
ME:"It'll take me some time to do. When do we need it by."
CW:"Yesterday."
ME:"Awesome, that's my favorite day to deliver."

Am I a little paranoid when I have a problem with my SSN being send over via E-mail?

Today is a good day. I can feel it!

I measure my progress by the amount of different error messages I am going through.

What I hate most about OpenSource is consistency; command on Win10 New-AzureRmVm on Linux New-AzVm. Stop, that's microsoft, I hate that about Microsoft.

I was watching over 9h of Windows and Azure Tutorials over the last few days, and now I don't feel very well. Guess I caught a Virus.