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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by nicoburns on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:46AM (#24430592)
As a developer I completely agree. I have some knowledge of system administration, but I much prefer with dedicated professional where possible. It's partly just a different set of expertise, but I think it's partly also why it's best to have dedicated people doing QA work. The attitude required to do the work is completely different to dev work, and it's hard for one person to wear both hats.
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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by phist_mcgee on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:51AM (#24431366)
Seconded. A sysadmin dedicates their professional life to deeply understanding systems, networks, and their interconnection. I am lucky if I can keep up with changes to my languages and frameworks as a programmer! Thank goodness there are sysadmins out there who can help us poor programmers out when our relatively basic understanding knowledge of linux fails us.
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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by nix23 on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:47AM (#24440457)
>Thank goodness there are sysadmins out there who can help us poor programmers out when our relatively basic understanding knowledge of linux fails us

Sometimes, and sometimes we have to ask the developer of that exact OS-subsystem/driver/firmware(AARGH!!) because it fails us too...and here we have a closed circle ;)

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