Uumm, I know lots of network admins who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag - myself included. Is this just a blatant bash at non-programmers, or do you not understand the job the guy has? The job is to keep the network running, at whatever cost/hours, keep the network running - not necessarily to code the software to keep the network running. Is there some shame I'm not aware of in not being an oh-so-holy programmer?
Wait a minute - I don't want to overgeneralize here, but 100 hour works weeks for sysadmins are the fault of one of two (or combination of) things:
1) the sysadmin 2) windows NT
I've been in the high-hour workweek phase, but as I learned more about what I was doing, the time spent "keeping things running" decreased dramatically. Truthfully, it can be traced to when I finally bumped past the learning curve that came from moving to Linux. Suddenly I don't have to worry about the Exchange Server crashing as I'm leaving town on vacation (yes, happened once, and it wasn't fun).
Also, it seems to me that some sysadmins (particularly younger ones) feel the need to show the brass that they are hard working, etc. What makes them any more hard working than someone who can get the job done just as well in a forty hour workweek? Being highly available but mildly incompotent it the fault of the worker, not the employer.
My vote is that living in the earth's core would suck, whether I had to share it with 10 billion or 100 billion others. I'm thinking enough elbow room would be the least of my problems.
That said, broad overpopulation is not the problem. The earth has plenty of resources untapped and areas unused for food and other life-supporting production. The problem becomes how to make use of those resources - in short, the people aren't the problem, it is making those resources available to everyone, everywhere, at any time that is the problem. All a matter of logistics, really.
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I would've pegged it for 42, but that seems to be the answer for everything anyway.
Your statement is kind of like...ah, screw it. Too easy. Too many options. Too many ways to be mean to a faceless person.
If he did overturn it, his head would be where his ass now is, and vice-versa. The ruling it remains the same, only the orifice has changed.
Uumm, I know lots of network admins who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag - myself included. Is this just a blatant bash at non-programmers, or do you not understand the job the guy has? The job is to keep the network running, at whatever cost/hours, keep the network running - not necessarily to code the software to keep the network running. Is there some shame I'm not aware of in not being an oh-so-holy programmer?
Wait a minute - I don't want to overgeneralize here, but 100 hour works weeks for sysadmins are the fault of one of two (or combination of) things:
1) the sysadmin 2) windows NT
I've been in the high-hour workweek phase, but as I learned more about what I was doing, the time spent "keeping things running" decreased dramatically. Truthfully, it can be traced to when I finally bumped past the learning curve that came from moving to Linux. Suddenly I don't have to worry about the Exchange Server crashing as I'm leaving town on vacation (yes, happened once, and it wasn't fun).
Also, it seems to me that some sysadmins (particularly younger ones) feel the need to show the brass that they are hard working, etc. What makes them any more hard working than someone who can get the job done just as well in a forty hour workweek? Being highly available but mildly incompotent it the fault of the worker, not the employer.
Crackmonkey.
My vote is that living in the earth's core would suck, whether I had to share it with 10 billion or 100 billion others. I'm thinking enough elbow room would be the least of my problems.
That said, broad overpopulation is not the problem. The earth has plenty of resources untapped and areas unused for food and other life-supporting production. The problem becomes how to make use of those resources - in short, the people aren't the problem, it is making those resources available to everyone, everywhere, at any time that is the problem. All a matter of logistics, really.
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