Actually, if you aproach system administration with the mindset of a software developer the two are extremely similar.

However, if you go into software development with the mindset of a system administrator you end up making the Mechanical Turk.

Come on, it's not that big. It's just 2^91 ip's per planet in the milky way!

Exiting vim, that's easy:

hit meta, sacrifice a lamb, :q, and recite the vim handbook, first edition, chapter 3 from memory, backwards.

A year? So you're lowballing the estimate and hoping for the best?

Mondays are easy, you're all charged up from the weekend, and ready to attack the week.

Tuesdays on the other hand... Reality hits you, and the weekend is still far away.

I fucking hate mnemonic acronyms, they're dumb and disguise the principle behind them.

"Write readable shit, here's how!" is a far more useful term.

If you have more dependencies than classes in your code, you're doing it wrong!

You saw a problem, thought out a solution, implemented it, "sold" the idea to the boss, and saved the company shitloads of money.

This is proper software engineering!

Lazyness really is a highly undervalued attribute.

I can often spend days thinking about a problem before writing any actual code, which many seem to think is a waste of time. Yet I'm the one who doesn't have to rewrite my code 3 or 4 times to get it to actually do what it's supposed to.

Carpenters have a saying: "Measure twice, cut once."

My version is: "Think twice, code once."

I highly recommend you not get arrested...

@irene Ummm, JavaScript.... well... It's was originally written as a weekend project, and it still smells like one.

I LOVE Python despite its faults, but JavaScript... I'd rather eat a lightbulb.

Time to start a flame war!

Now, if Python would finally add proper static type-checking, so we knew what kind of data we were dealing with!

Chaos, panic, disorder, my work here is done!

Maybe try wardruna

Or you just need to let go of the last shred of care.

I'm introverted, and awkward, but I no longer have the time or inclination to summon up even the most rudimentary shit to give about it.

So people think I'm extroverted, and confident, and whatever.

@Froot <--- What he said, unless the company is shitty in which case I bail as soon as I have another offer.

Where can I buy this?!

So, you want people to work on their gee-you-ay, with their ess-queue-el backend?

@xewl Heavily depends on your workplace, doesn't it? ;P

@xewl This is devrant, not devprudes :P

Fuck oracle, anything that gets you a step away from them is a good step.

Awww, he looks cute.

You should have shipped him to me, I have many boxes for his kind, and lots and lots of little crickets for him to munch on!

Taking advice from books about achieving success is like taking investment advice from a lottery winner.

And even IF it's possible, and someone develops a filter, it will effectively decimate any and all future competition against existing platforms.

Anyone who isn't able to pay millions for the filter will be sued out of existence.

I'm really surprised Google and Facebook is even trying to fight it!

DUUUUDE!

Topic is riskiest, not most suicidal!

Every brand of laptops suck if you buy the consumer versions.

Look into the business lines and things change quite a bit.

@Avyiel Law of computer systems:

"If it's working someone will be along shortly to break it."

DevOps/Ops/Whatever addendum to the law of computer systems: "When it breaks it's somehow going to end up being your responsibility to get it working again."

I'd go with "Everything as code". This is so that WHEN it blows up, it's easy to get it back up and running.

Black text on black background is very calming, and there's absolutely no eye or brain strain.

Can't say if it's the right move for you or not, but I like the saying:

"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room."

Looks like there might be a bus near the trees back there.