Who has the spec?
I'd decided that he would make the short list for an offer and began wrapping up the interview. "So, do you have any questions about the company, or about the job as a Senior Linux Sysadmin?" I asked.
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"Apparently," Steven said, "this code worked extremely well in 2005 when the tenth version of the product was released." Brought to you by the Non-WTF Job Board :
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Companies everywhere were focused on building revolutionary applications using nothing but top-shelf hardware and state-of-the-art software tools. Developers everywhere were trying to figure out if they should play more foosball, more air hockey, or sit back down on their Aeron and write more code.
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One day there, we got our very own web server. So one day I was doing long hours in the office and shortly after everybody (most notably the management) left the office, the web server was suddenly down again. There they are, all playing Quake — on our web server.
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Ever since the first Free Sticker Week ended back in February '07, I've been sending out WTF Stickers to anyone that mailed me a SASE or a small Souvenir. Just as well, I've always had a hard time convincing anyone south of the border that they were legal tender."
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I've installed Firefox on hundreds of computers and never heard of this problem. A little over an hour later, I received another irritated call from this man. "The guy at the store says I need a computer for one of these things," he said. "That's correct, sir.
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Obviously, that doesn't leave much computing power for anything else, which means that Allen can do little more than watch his as his computer labors away for the five, ten, or thirty minutes that it takes to run his program locally.
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Can you, like, check into this. We'll just have to babysit the power guys when then come in for repairs." Yet another tech jumped in, "you know, we could probably even run the whole show if we can get another back-up generator." Alcari was optimistic, too.
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