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Comment by a11595 | Hacker News Reader

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Not a chance buddy. I've been here for a while, and this place has become reddit, with mods from /r/incels. I have two accounts. When I see someone with zero knowledge of subject matter, like OP, authoritatively and dismissively spew complete bs, I reply like I do.

People with a clear agenda spewing fake crap gets upvoted here now. Disagree with a mod - your comments are shadow removed, and possibly your account is shadow banned, with no warning, so the insecure mod can feel better.

I give actual valuable information from 20 years of experience at almost all the fortune100 firms. Snarkness? Yes. Much better and funnier than the guy I replied to.

I know you disagree. That's specifically why I include sentences like the last - to draw attention to the issue. comment karma has become useless here. Stuff is greyed out, stuff is shadow deleted - good things, filtered by idiots. I don't want my content filtered by insecure idiots.

Hey budz, many around here have 20+ years of experience.

I've fought all my career to get "enterprise" folks to understand that spending $100s of mill on hardware vendors and 3rd party software is madness, if what you are doing is actually mission critical.

Money should be spend on acquiring talent and adapting to actual business needs.

The business you support could not care less about your shiny toys, they want to transform, and probably yesteryear!

A digression here, from one of your other posts: if your business applications rely on live migration of vm's, you're doing it wrong. You should take this up with your CIO or even better the CTO, but he's probably busy looking at Gartner magic quadrants and contemplating the dire need of a blockchain.

Keep an open mind, and keep it simple. Best advice ever in this crazy business!

plenty of talent, and for stability and performance all that talent spends millions of dollars on top of the line proven solutions. Applications rely on live migrations for load balancing a farm, and it happens automatically in the background around the clock to rebalance farms. Hardware maintenance is another use case. So is a bucket of water. So is change control - I want to load new HBA firmware? I'll evacuate the ESX to somewhere else first.

no one contemplates blockchain, but for someone CIO level, gartner quadrants present a quick high-level summary of where the industry is going. and $100mil+ for hardware is completely normal to run things that process billions of dollars. The US treasury department is a great example. Mastercard is another.

What you describe is said talent doing it wrong.

But if it floats your boat — awesome!

Take care.

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