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At this point it is philosophical either way, so you aren't going to get a citation confirming yours or his statements, but this isn't an unheard of belief.

My point being that people who get them evangelize AWS and the certs themselves teach absolutely no technical competency. Compound this with requiring x number for cert holders for partnership benefits I think it was clearly intended to get people excited about selling AWS rather than exhibiting any kind of competence with primitives and concepts compared to something like CCN*.

You're not missing any part of using serverless by not caring about servers. You have platform constraints to minimize.

The complicated area of railroad tracks probably doesn't help either. Someone is paying for them and the maintenance is frequent judging by the business my friends working on the railroads get.

For example my house had a situation with taxes where I had to pay investor rated taxes for a year since it was held by an investor previously. That's the tax rate I see when I look at the MLS. I would have said no to the house if my realtor had not told me the way it worked, and that they would fall off the next year. I don't know that a generic list can capture that since its specific to my locale (or not, I don't know how it works in other places and that's great since I don't have to be an expert on it).

I was just commenting on that even buying a home I would want a realtor, which many people here believe they don't need.

You should build a rapport with one you trust. Then they don't get paid until you are happy, since you aren't going to buy something you aren't happy with and they know that. It took 2 or 3 to find one that I felt was working for me. Dragged him to all 20 properties I wanted to see in a day and told him no on everything and that was that, until the one I wanted popped up. Then I let him argue with the seller about things that I wouldn't have any idea how to approach.

I don't expect their realtor to act in my best interest if so. Our goals aren't aligned. I almost fell into a situation where the realtor I was choosing was the buyers representative as well, which a family member who is a realtor as well as my bank advised was a terrible idea.

If you're proposing that realtors are just half price then I don't have a problem with paying less for things :)

I didn't think anything of it since I didn't know anything about furnaces but my realtor put an extra contingency in to get another inspection of it paid for by the seller. The closing was within 30 days and they never got around to it in the week or two left after the first inspection, once I signed it was just forgotten. Maybe it was my job to get them on top of it, but he should have at the least brought it up near the signing to postpone it a day and enforce the contingency.

I ended up replacing it the next year. It wasn't terrible for me since I moved in with extra cash ready for such things, but could have been very bad for someone else who put everything into the down payment.

There were other things he was on top of though. He got the seller to come back and fix some wiring that the inspection had missed free of charge on my part which was fantastic. Not a safety issue, just usability. I didn't like what some of the switches controlled so I know they had no obligation to do it. The company who remodeled my house sells a lot of houses around here, so I suspect he has a rapport with them.

For example, I might use Chef daily. If I put it in a list of other tools I use it can mean I know how to use it for my very specific use case, but usually it is taken as "this guy thinks he contributes to the Chef source code and knows every bizarre scenario involving it" by some tech screener trying to get his rocks off.

I 100% blame every tech recruiter for furthering this mess.

One problem I've found with vim is some weird character buffer thing happens where my text stops displaying or something. I've never investigated it but its probably SSH itself.

There is no more vendor lock-in with this than with Elastic.

I believe in response to some licensing changes MongoDB made, so the AWS service targets the last permitted license release by Mongo.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-...

*I forgot to mention, they did not release the code for this as you may have been looking for apple-to-apple comparison with the ES situation.

And it doesn't appear that AWS is hosting these right now, just distributing so they must be paying some kind of licensing for ES. But I'm sure that will change.

People make these statements in front of customers and then we have to dance around it to the next option. It takes a hint of introspection to know when you might not have all the bases covered in your head before pushing things out of your mouth.

Saying something is an option at least can be interpreted as not being fully sure at this second, whereas saying "we have to do this" and being wrong just makes you look incompetent as a representative of my team.

For all we know they could have been in contact with cartel or cartel associates in an official capacity just investigating things which of course might put them on a list.

I think this contributes to the obsession with tools by my peers rather than obsession with the goal and why I hope to move into a more SRE-like role at some point.

There is something about either forwarding/address changing or this informed delivery that allows USPS to sell your new address to junk mailers. I signed up for both at the same time and was flooded with new junk mail the day I moved in. It gives me a serious distaste for the postal service as an organization.