@scottalanmiller said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

May God have mercy on us all...

For what? ROFL

WordPress is the WIndows 95 of blogging software, and now it's invaded command line, there's no escape from the clutches of one of the worst code bases to ever exist.

Wordpress is great! What you smokin'?

The slowest, worst written blogging system in existence is great? Well, I guess some people enjoy herpes too.

You use Ghost?

Oh please, everything Symantec makes is amazingly great and competent, I'm 100% sure their programmers don't have severe brain damage.

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

The slowest, worst written blogging system in existence is great? Well, I guess some people enjoy herpes too.

lol, bad experience(s), eh?
Out of genuine interest, what's your favourite?

Bad experience? I developed on the WordPress code base in the past, it literally is one of the worst code bases there is. It's extremely disorganised, doesn't properly meet any standard in existence, and even today the code is approached as if it's written in PHP 4.1. WordPress has more vulnerabilities than almost any other equally popular piece of software, and also their crappy API leads to crappy plugins which also have tons of vulnerabilities. The key people in WordPress don't know how to program, that's the primary issue.

I don't have a favourite, they're all shit, and ironically WordPress is the best because it's easiest to get going and has so many options available. It's poorly executed. Turn on query log sometime, a regular page load will probably be about 100 database queries, many of them identical, which screams incompetence. It's sort of funny, WordPress attempts to promote caching tools for problems they themselves have created.

Here's some more detail:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/4257928

@thecreativeone91 said:

@tonyshowoff said:

Once it took 10 minutes and then I complained and got a $20 credit.

Wow! That's above and beyond. Even more than Amazon level above and beyond.

They probably did it so I'd stop complaining... and I also already have a lot of stuff with them, we do all of our staging and so forth from there. You know those people that never shut the hell up when things go wrong? Yeah, I'm one of those.

Mozilla once lead? When was this? After Netscape started promoting open source because Microsoft drove them out of business? Firefox was a great alternative for a few years, but all during that time IE still dominated, Chrome has outdone Firefox. I still use Firefox for development since it has the best tools, but it's so damn slow compared to Chrome I never use it for regular browsing, plus also they keep making API changes arbitrarily so extensions break between versions without notice.

Sun had a lot of good talent and created a lot for the world, they sold for a hell of a lot, but because of licensing if Mozilla was ever sold, it'd never, ever sell for anywhere close to what Sun sold for or even what Netscape sold for to AOL.

Mozilla/Firefox will likely stay around but probably turn into a more obscure open source project just as regular Mozilla was before the Firefox project started. And Mozilla isn't making great stuff either, so...

BTW mad props for using FreeBSD

Once it took 10 minutes and then I complained and got a $20 credit.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

May God have mercy on us all...

For what? ROFL

WordPress is the WIndows 95 of blogging software, and now it's invaded command line, there's no escape from the clutches of one of the worst code bases to ever exist.

Wordpress is great! What you smokin'?

The slowest, worst written blogging system in existence is great? Well, I guess some people enjoy herpes too.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@tonyshowoff said:

May God have mercy on us all...

For what? ROFL

WordPress is the WIndows 95 of blogging software, and now it's invaded command line, there's no escape from the clutches of one of the worst code bases to ever exist.

May God have mercy on us all...

@scottalanmiller said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller said:

DBAs aren't the ones who should be making these decisions anyway, they don't know systems. They know databases.

You're giving a lot of DBAs too much credit even with this.

I've worked with pretty decent ones. Not too many DBAs anywhere outside of the super big teams.

A competent DBA is a rarity like an honest mechanic. I've known a couple of good ones, but most I've known either never worked because they weren't needed or were just stupid.

@scottalanmiller said:

DBAs aren't the ones who should be making these decisions anyway, they don't know systems. They know databases.

You're giving a lot of DBAs too much credit even with this.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Not really, no. I still haven't figured out what I really want to do with my life. But I'm really happy, so......

No shame in that

@Carnival-Boy said:

@tonyshowoff said:

you can still retire in your 50s if you play it right (I'm assuming you're in your early 30s).

I wish I'm 43 next week

I hope you at least have some plan in mind

@Carnival-Boy said:

I don't want to live in the future. I want to enjoy my life all the way through. I didn't pursue very good career options in my 20s but I had the time of my life and wouldn't swap it now. I have a few friends who earn a lot of money, but they have had health problems and rarely see their kids - that's not the life for me. I wouldn't want to be poor, but I've no desire to be rich either.

Not living in the future is how a lot of people get into debt. You can also maintain a healthy life style and work hard. You're sort of taking a black/white view of either not giving a damn or becoming a workaholic, at least that's what you seem to be implying, though I'm sure that probably isn't your view point. At any rate: work smart, not hard.

Having said that, I could do with some more cash at the moment.....

I think that's true for most people anyway

The very least you can do is consider the future, even if you don't take the extreme options I did of destroying myself in my 20s, you can still retire in your 50s if you play it right (I'm assuming you're in your early 30s). Living cheap helps a lot, even now with complete financial independence I am a cheap bastard, primarily because I got into that habit years ago.

It couldn't hurt to get some advice, if you think you need it or think it could be helpful, from different people who are more experienced. I'd consider, especially, talking to older people. If you want to seriously learn to live cheap, talk to someone who lived through the great depression or came from a communist shit hole country like mine, though full disclosure, people from my homeland are really bad with money because they don't have experience with it, hell, pyramid schemes are huge there like they were in the US in the 80s, but they can tell you how to not spend money or be really cheap, just ask them how they got by in the 80s and early 90s.

Yep

I grew up extremely poor, and started making lots of money in my late 20s and I have to say: money is happiness. If you don't agree with that, surely you can agree that it at least prevents misery. I'll take more money to do worse work every time, because it pushes you closer to being done, if you're planning things right. I've been unofficially "retired" since 2010, and now making money and running businesses (I hesitate to use the over-used word "entrepreneur") is now both something that I enjoy and a way to get away from my wife complaining I spend too much time doing nothing.

I'd set a goal and work toward it, even if it's no fun. I don't agree with the idea of working for pennies doing what you love, because if you do what you hate well enough, for enough money, you can retire earlier and enjoy your freedom and what you love. I think a lot of time people just lie to themselves about this issue, just look at all the people on Spiceworks talking about how IT is their calling and they'd do it for free -- while it's certainly possible they would, I have a feeling they mean they'd use their free time to mess with computers, not wipe the noses of users.

My point is, do what it takes to make more money now, so you can enjoy your life later. I honestly think from time to time I wish I had worked harder much earlier so I could've gotten more of my late 20s back, but even if it meant in an alternative universe retiring at 50 instead of 70, I'd still work 30 years doing something I hate than working until I'm dead just trying to get by whilst telling myself "yeah, I sure love this". I'd rather be at home, but that's just me.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Are you saying I shouldn't see a triangle?

You're all idiots, total damn morons, it's clearly a dodecahedron, you people are so two dimensional.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I've worked on Stratus too!

When I was at AOL that's what was in use, I don't know what they use now, maybe old tires or something with boards screwed to them.

If they weren't with timewarner now they'd be using an abacus

They haven't been with timewarner for years

@scottalanmiller said:

I've worked on Stratus too!

When I was at AOL that's what was in use, I don't know what they use now, maybe old tires or something with boards screwed to them.

@scottalanmiller said:

We had NT 4 server farm for a decade (1999 - 2009.) It was amazing. Not amazing in features, of course, but it was amazing in stability and uptime. ASP apps on IIS and SQL Server 7 ran rock solid for forever. Not one bit of downtime ever from software. It was all Compaq (pre-HP) Proliants and old SmartArrays.

Ah yes, Compaq ProLiant, that takes me back, much like Stratus