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A key takeaway from this blog post is the important of communication skills. Be a professional in the workplace. Be sincere with your colleagues and avoid passive aggressive behavior. If you have an issue with a colleague, take it to them first before lodging a complaint with their manager.

America's infatuation with their military is disgusting

SV tech companies are infested with young white brogrammers who only want to work with people who look like them and share their hobbies/interests. They call it "cultural fit"

Edit: missed important adjective "white"

I wonder what's the conversation rate for a woman or person of color?

Why not .io ?

I completely agree with this approach. The best job security is being good at what you do. Fortunately, we work in an industry where if you are even slightly talented, you will have no trouble finding a new job. So, don't worry too much about how the company is doing. Stick around as long as you are getting paid, the work is interesting, and you are growing in your knowledge/skills. Ensure you have savings for any disasters. And always be scouting the market for new opportunities.

I recommend the following books to learn more about the work involved on the Ops side:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Linux-Administration-Cutting-E...

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-...

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Superuser-Should/dp/1...

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Monitoring-Alerting-Web-Ope...

https://www.amazon.com/Ansible-DevOps-Server-configuration-m...

https://www.amazon.com/Terraform-Running-Writing-Infrastruct...

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Services-Action-Andreas-Wittig...

and Ruby as well

Wouldn't the capability to compile a completely self-contained binary for any platform that can avoid AV be really appealing to pentesters?

VPNs are for privacy, not anonymity. Confuse the two are your own peril - the Grugq

The only trustworthy VPN service is one that you operate yourself. There are plenty of Github projects that will deploy a personal VPN for you:

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

This was the original tweet: https://twitter.com/asemota/status/875497242987307008. He explains it better than I could.

This is the correct answer. Dismantle the company, exit with a good payout, and give back some of it in philanthropy.

The person who suggested building AWS data centers in Africa was right on the mark. I would love to see that