Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:03:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2007241856590.16967@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkZWwUM8HqFvAxqUwxLA%2BmvWairNcG9MJFe_UjjHdBOuw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200214204838.360c8f624397c659946bd764@sohara.org> <20200215063818.GE1482@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200215083359.367d8a3e9ddb4942df67d5b5@sohara.org> <58202623-bbf7-eda0-5cb5-fb4749e91e20@watters.ws> <CAEJNuHxbFSPBB7keSrBufpg=RsgQ8EPK_fvzt8XBROLNKyN_sw@mail.gmail.com> <6318251A-973A-4DEC-9271-12333EB11F7B@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAEJNuHxC7i%2Bq7cq65=my6mJZDdiK4gpQsKjMU1nvsm=Ri4On%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <800f33cd-0dc1-1ae9-2262-a374bf8c10dd@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200724170348.51f108ec@archlinux> <1273868562.6647660.1595604615652@mail.yahoo.com> <20200724183331.6363d69c@archlinux> <CAGBxaXnky9nowCdSZd1maQN%2BeGQVm%2Boq%2BtfS-m0aAHhZJDqDPQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200724210127.7d05e22bd81b95388adf32ba@sohara.org> <CAGBxaXkaG_bqtJMp7SfgW4ATxUtYM7C-MAaBWc2uKTFTzymaFA@mail.gmail.com> <20200724215949.854b5bc9199b5ae2e6678dc0@sohara.org> <CAGBxaXkZWwUM8HqFvAxqUwxLA%2BmvWairNcG9MJFe_UjjHdBOuw@mail.gmail.com>
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I wasn't going to go down this hole, but here we go. See below. On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:00 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:52:51 -0400 >> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Let add one more complication the client wants us to auto populate >>> the MySQL DB from our webapp DB which is on a physically separate >>> machine, but refuses to buy a second license for the device DB >>> software and thus we are forced to do our development/alpha testing >>> on live data (i.e. we *MUST* have completely working backups made >>> every 15 mins or so). >> >> Ugh! I really don't miss end-user facing work :) There's >> something nice about having sysadmins as the most demanding >> customers. [ snip ] > the VP of Engineering (who held the programmers job before April) > refused to answer the following question saying it was irrelevant to > having two programs updating the physical DB at once: "Are there any > concurrency issues we need to aware when auto populating the patient > data?" (ok "refused" is too polite of a description for what he > actually said "don't go down that rabbit hole, this conversation is > over!" [and hangs up on us by slamming the phone down].... this > despite direct orders from the CEO to give all possible aid and > answers). I wish I could be surprised at this. It's very common for top-level employees in $DEPARTMENT to get promoted to manager or VP of $DEPARTMENT. But if I'm a good software engineer, that doesn't mean I'd make a good manager (or executive). They are entirely different skill sets. I've learned this many times. [ snip and snip again ] -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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