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Comment on Americans should hire remote sysadmins. by rICh

rICh — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:29:21 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for sharing this!
Companies shouldn’t limit their support staff to just whoever is local… with an SSH connection, a qualified SysAdmin could be on the moon for all they care.

What’s especially useful is organizations that offer “follow the sun” 24×7 support (support contact info rolls from timezone to timezone) — guarantees you’ll never have someone rolling out of bed at 2am & logging into your servers on 1/2 a brain.

Comment on Call Out Gouranga And Be Miserable by John

John — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:53:05 +0000

Your comment is only distinguishable from spam because I know you. :op

Comment on Call Out Gouranga And Be Miserable by Adam

Adam — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:25:30 +0000

Stop trying to be reasonable.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Or…. try praying.

Comment on One Line Ruby Webserver by John

John — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:28:34 +0000

Yeah, that one is well-known. I mention it at the start of the post. :o)

Comment on One Line Ruby Webserver by Brandon McKinney

Brandon McKinney — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:20:15 +0000

My one-liner webserver comes from Python. Here’s my .bashrc alias:

alias www=’python -m SimpleHTTPServer’

By default, it serves on port 8000.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by John

John — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:03:29 +0000

I think it would need to be something separated from money, which would put it in direct conflict with what appears to be Flattr’s main base right now.

An entirely meaningless ‘kudos’/points system could maybe work, but I don’t think it would really take off. The beer exchange has novelty value, plus obviously has beer.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by Siim Teller

Siim Teller — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:09:31 +0000

Good points, sure it’s not everything for all things.

Wondering if there’s a way to make it relevant in such knowledge/karma exchange?

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by John

John — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000

Well, part of the ‘beer debt’ thing is the implied social aspect – even if you walk the graph of beer debt and find someone local, it still has that social aspect since you’ll need to meet them for the beers.

Flattr’s still a bit too new and unusual to step in there, I think, plus there’s an aspect of almost assigning a cash value to the help which is always going to be far less than the actual commercial value of any help you get. A beer is a repayment among friends, but a micropayment is a bit… off?

Don’t get me wrong about Flattr in general – I think there’s definite uses for it, it would just be a bit weird here.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by Siim Teller

Siim Teller — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:53:42 +0000

How about Flattr for that sort of karma debt? Possible to flattr any Twitter account, even if they’re not signed up just yet.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by epocalypse

epocalypse — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:17:08 +0000

Yeah, I’m not really a touchy feel kind of person, except with my wife & kids. Sometimes though there are moments in my work where a quick hug may make a difference and I feel very uncomfortable with that, difficult to determine the appropriateness of physical intimacy in such charged situations.