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35 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2010 04:16PM

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Comment author: taw 26 March 2010 06:09:45PM 0 points [-]

My experience with Amazon cloud has been rather positive. Very much unlike my experience with live sysadmins, who are all terrible human beings by nature of their job. I'd really rather not go off the cloud ever.

Comment author: Rain 26 March 2010 06:22:47PM 4 points [-]

I don't think I'm a terrible human being, on or off the job.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2010 08:50:04PM 4 points [-]

I'm sorry, but you have to update that belief now. :)

Comment author: Rain 27 March 2010 09:45:35PM *  2 points [-]

I've heard the data point several times before in different contexts, so minimal updating required.

As far as I can tell, it comes down to different incentives. End users have the goal structure G* (most closely aligned with the actual business), developers have Q*, sysadmins have D*, and none of them are well aligned with each other.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 March 2010 12:55:20AM 0 points [-]

I hadn't heard it. I wasn't aware that some people were prejudiced against sysadmins.