I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.

At 2017 FOSDEM I attended a session about the mooltipass hardware password manager. The speaker talked about his successful kickstarter campaign the mooltipas and how he verified the integrity of every step of the process. The device is open source hardware, that is assembled and tested with a tamper evident case. It attaches via USB and uses a chip and pin smartcard to store encrypted passwords. You can check it out here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themooltipass.com%2F

Juju is able to orchestrate both LXC and KVM on several different cloud environments. Juju employs a slightly different paradigm than Docker, building on top of cloud images rather than an image based workflow. It surprises me that Docker gets so much attention in this space. I have used both and still prefer Juju for the flexibility. With Juju I am able to nest LXC inside Amazon instances or use LXC on my laptop to make it appear as cloud environment.

A quick google search turns up a document on this very subject (not written by me):
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsights.ubuntu.com%2Fwp...

Assuming this is not made up... What software allows you to do this across all three of the devices you listed?

Link?

Cmdr Taco,

I have never known you but you created something that has been very important to me and so many other people. I imagine /. feels like your child and walking away from it must be hard. I hope you are truly satisfied with what you have done, if not look at all the posts, rinse and repeat.

Good luck in your future endeavors and submit a story if you start another venture. I would like to be in at the ground level with a low UID with this next venture! Apparently this low UID thing impresses people!

Thank you sir for all the work,

      - Bruzer

P.S. You guys did not invent posting anonymously, but thanks for keeping the Anonymous Coward feature. I have only used it once or twice myself. I think it allows people to post what is really on their minds (even if it is silly or stupid). I think it is an important part of this site.

This story resonates with me. I would have wholeheartedly agreed with the professor when I was a student and being forced to take Math classes that I did not like. However with my experience in the "real world" I now disagree.

I ended up minoring in Mathematics, because of the of the all the Math requirements for a Computer Science major. I strongly disliked the advanced Calculus courses and could not imagine why we needed to take them. Since then I have worked in the industry as a Software Engineer for 14 years.

In retrospect I see that the time at the university was preparing me for the real world. The lesson was not that Math is important to a Software Engineering career, but that we often have to do things that we don't like to get to the stuff that we do like. I would LOVE to program all day (and sometimes I can), but there are all sorts of other things that Software Engineers have to do _and_ be good at to succeed at our jobs. We have to do all kinds of tasks that is not programming, fill out "TPS reports", be able to speak in front of other people, the good ones even have social skills (gasp!) to convince people to try their way or work with them to solve a problem. I dislike the extra tasks almost exactly as I disliked Calculus 3, but in the end, I got through it and will be a better Software Engineer because of it.

As far as the point that math turns away people that would be influential to the field of Computer Science. Tough. If they didn't have the fortitude to put up with stuff they do not like or are not good at they would likely be a prima donna in the workplace.

Do any of the people you know have spare motorcycles? Perhaps you can help us solve the case!

> " ...if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. "

I resemble that remark!

As I read the article, I am currently in the basement of a large computer company writing code.

Our basements is not so bad, they light them up with artificial lights. Sometimes when I leave the building the sun hurts my eyes.

Does this mean there are Software Engineers that do *not* program in the basement? ... Absurd!

I disagree with you and think it IS noteworthy, and of special interest to the Slashdot audience.

Many CEOs appear more like lawyers or salesmen/women. They may be very smart, but don't strike me as technical minded.

Running 4 different distributions of Linux implies a fair bit of technical knowledge, more than Windows and Mac usage. I find that I use more console commands in Linux than the other operating systems, and to know those commands requires reading man pages or other documentation, something that the average user may not do.

Each distribution of Linux can have different configuration commands and nuances. You may know how to configure the sound card on one distribution but another distribution can be totally different.

Linux comes pre-installed on only a few PCs, and I am going to assume the four systems didn't come with Linux. Most of the time you have to install and often configure it which is (and lets be honest) can be more difficult than Windows or Mac OS.

The bottom line is I don't know of many CEO type people that use Linux at home. I don't think the CEO of my company could do anything productive with Linux without significant help from technical staff, much less install and configure it at home for personal use.

I think the CEO candidate of a Linux company using Linux at home is noteworthy, relevant, and interesting.