I don't think you'll find a single site to replace/., except reddit with specific subreddits.
But let's be honest, its never really been that great a site. It was good enough back in the day when it didn't have much competition, but that time has long since past.
The most important thing - do not micromanage. Trust your employees.
To be perfectly honest, you want to be in a position where the only thing you're doing is making sure they don't get overworked and aren't doing projects that don't make sense. All you need for that is a simple repeating team meeting where you talk about what you've been doing and whats coming up.
If you have a problem employee, deal with/that/ employee. Don't fuck the whole team because of one jackass.
exactly. it doesn't really matter if you are there or not. eventually something is going to break in a new and interesting way that can't be fixed without a significant amount of work.
generally we try to have at least three systems for any production service so that we can still have redundancy while doing maintenance.
that said, I rarely come in for patching anymore. I just make sure I'm available in case something doesn't come up afterwards. (no binge drinking on patch nights!)
redundancy and proper monitoring make life much, much nicer.
This reminds me of a series of books by Poul Anderson recently, the Harvest of Stars. It basically deals with highly intelligent machines that have taken control of man's destiny. While most of man lies complacent under their control (after all, all they need do is keep themselves from boredom), a few seethe. My poor description can't do the books justice, so if you want to see one possible outcome of highly intelligent/self-aware machines, check it out. T he Harvest of Stars
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I don't think you'll find a single site to replace /., except reddit with specific subreddits.
But let's be honest, its never really been that great a site. It was good enough back in the day when it didn't have much competition, but that time has long since past.
The most important thing - do not micromanage. Trust your employees.
To be perfectly honest, you want to be in a position where the only thing you're doing is making sure they don't get overworked and aren't doing projects that don't make sense. All you need for that is a simple repeating team meeting where you talk about what you've been doing and whats coming up.
If you have a problem employee, deal with /that/ employee. Don't fuck the whole team because of one jackass.
In short, treat them like fucking professionals.
exactly. it doesn't really matter if you are there or not. eventually something is going to break in a new and interesting way that can't be fixed without a significant amount of work.
generally we try to have at least three systems for any production service so that we can still have redundancy while doing maintenance.
that said, I rarely come in for patching anymore. I just make sure I'm available in case something doesn't come up afterwards. (no binge drinking on patch nights!)
redundancy and proper monitoring make life much, much nicer.
This reminds me of a series of books by Poul Anderson recently, the Harvest of Stars. It basically deals with highly intelligent machines that have taken control of man's destiny. While most of man lies complacent under their control (after all, all they need do is keep themselves from boredom), a few seethe. My poor description can't do the books justice, so if you want to see one possible outcome of highly intelligent/self-aware machines, check it out. T he Harvest of Stars
Actually I have seen the term, SoftModem being used by modem manufacterers. *I guess they don't like windows either* ;)