sacrilicious

I was very interested in Even as a company designed to approach challenges like these. I can't imagine how difficult it is to take on a study like this, I'm rooting for them to be successful and hope they share the resulting data. It should always be close to our thoughts - lack of a living wage causing long commutes from soon-to-be gentrified neighborhoods, all in the shadow of Chomsky's Responsibility of Intellectuals.

No remote, but telework 1 day a week after the first 6 months.

Part Hospital/part EDU, Montefiore is looking for Mac SysAdmins in the NYC area. http://jobs.mdoes.com (the title is Desktop Analyst)

This is a job you can grow in; I was able to open-source a good amount of code, (including contributions to munki and autopkg,) spoke at conferences like PSU MacAdmins, and the boss and I both spoke at the MacTech Conference. If you're as maniacal as I am about the devops mindset and sharing what you know, this may be for you. (There's iOS-related and regular IT customer service-type tasks as well, but mostly you'd be sheilded from having to be reactive.) Major aspects of this working environment include: - Customers you'll respect, who have enough self-confidence to reciprocate - Coworkers that want to work hard and make you look good - A boss and leadership that give you room while challenging your ambition - Benefits like... working at a hospital, and a college. It's pretty great, one example: every week you earn ~10 hours off.

We're hoping you like the idea of making a difference with us. No ping pong, no rock band, and you go home at 5. Take the generous time off. Have the resources to experiment and reach your potential. For the tool-builders doing keyword searches: sure, there's a good amount of django, flask, and (py-)objective-c. But we're also getting the job done with puppet, munki, and autopkg. If you (or anybody you know) might be interested, please reach out: @sacrilicious on twitter, Allister Banks on linkedin, Allister on macadmins Slack, and [email protected]

(No recruiters or folks looking for freelance-type contracts, please)

Part Hospital part EDU, Montefiore is looking for Mac SysAdmins in the NYC area.

http://jobs.mdoes.com (Desktop Analyst - pardon the HR-ness, and we don't actually use Remedy...)

This is a job you can grow in; I was able to open-source a good amount of code, (including contributions to munki and autopkg,)

spoke at conferences like PSU MacAdmins, and the boss and I both spoke at the MacTech Conference.

If you're as maniacal as I am about the devops mindset and sharing what you know, this may be for you.

(There's iOS-related and regular customer service tasks as well, but mostly you'd be sheilded from having to be reactive.)

Major aspects of this working environment include:

- Customers you'll respect, who have enough self-confidence to reciprocate

- Coworkers that want to work hard and make you look good

- A boss and leadership that give you room while challenging your ambition

- Benefits like... working at a hospital, and a college. Every week you earn ~10 hours off.

We're hoping you like the idea of making a difference with us. No ping pong, no rock band.

Go home at 5. Take the generous time off. Have the resources to experiment and reach your potential.

For the tool-builders doing keyword searches: sure, there's a good amount of django, flask, and (py-)objective-c.

But we're also getting the job done with puppet, munki, and autopkg. If you (or anybody you) know might be interested,

please reach out: @sacrilicious on twitter, Allister Banks on linkedin, Allister on macadmins Slack, and [email protected]

My story: - The pretty big theater I worked for had a crackerjack unix head running a windows/exchange environment like it was no big thing, all from an iBookG3. I was in the shower, at some point in the late fall. and I thought to myself 'I'd like to have a job/get paid to "fix computers"'. I sent away for Apple's Tech Training, someone's husband was starting a consulting company, and 10 years later... well, I like what I do and am lucky to have as many advances as I've had in my short career. Workstation-level sysadmin may not be highly regarded, but at least the book I wrote wasn't by hand.

First off, "yet"? They're going to change they're mind at some point about code signing?

And second, nw.js apps like Kitematic can sign their code, no matter how quick a hack this is don't belittle Apple's security to explain away your laziness of not signing your app.

Thank you for sharing, although the glamorizing of killing yourself for work is also a bit disturbing.

So many of these systems are still too big and complicated. I consider myself an amateur, and therefore I bootstrap with manually getting Dropbox, 1Password, and then update babushka links to do the rest from the canonical sources via github.

I honestly can see this move as being more 'in bed' with old media than a type of not-invented-here syndrome. In the iMovie intro yesterday the CEO of Apple said they're trying to do the platform right with an app they like developing, but also raises the bar to a place other developers should shoot for. I'm not saying to take that as parallel to 'the brand of capitalism we foster is naturally better', but who knows if there couldn't be an upside(once things get clarified) that's natural for the market and doesn't smack of greed.

A bright future, thanks for all your dedication and hard work!

There are no non-profit or even strictly business-related terms under the umbrella of the App Store as far as I know. There are no corporate/business iTunes purchasing accounts, no escalation to root-level privileges allowed for apps in the MacAppStore(postponing backup and other more powerful apps). This seems like another oversight on Apples part due to treating it as a lower priority.

And although they have every right to be proud of their achievements, it seems a bit like "you owe me" to remind Apple that they used the Apache-licensed Readability tech for Reader. Their proposed app could stand on its on.

Munki is the engine and the great front-end, friendly, user-facing GUI which offers optional(self-service) installs, mandatory installs, and removals(with a certain amount of elbow-grease). You can approve and serve all packages, or point Apple Software Updates at Apple's servers if desired.

What this is not: A replacement for Fink, Macports, Homebrew, Babushka, Puppet, Chef, the Casper suite, Absolute Manage(formerly LANRev), Filewave, KACE, Radmind, or Apple Mac OS X Server's Software Update Service. This can be used in conjunction with any of the above, and is extensible for large corporate IT needs.

EDIT: currently Simian does not support serving pkgs from any location, but that is planned in the upcoming features, and is currently a capability of Munki when rolling your own webserver - Thanks to @glarizza http://code.google.com/p/simian/#Upcoming_Features

We've all had too many examples of bad pr-attracting events and their fallout over the years. A wise man wrote 'One shouldn't be forming a(n incident-response) team during a crisis', and I don't expect different here. Do I hope for better as someone who uses and admires the Tumblr platform, and expect more communication next time? Yes.

The quantcast graph pointing to the 1 _billion_ increase over the past _two_months_? Easy to play armchair qb to that, but by jeebus, it's almost surprising they made it this long.

The only thing I'd add, besides the request for OpenID love, is that the FAQ needs to put "we won't spam your twitter" higher up - that's what I wanted to know _immediately_ after signing in for the first time(the serious faux pas being "My streakficiency is blahblah, what's yours?").

Besides that, just one detail: the FAQ(which is great, btw) wasn't in the first-login "we're very beta" notice at the top, which would have been easier to find.

My counterpoint, not to dismiss legitimate concerns that the huge number of customers affected by crappy AT&T coverage have, is twofold: Denial is spin, PR. Hesitation is having less R&D resources to do anything about it. It's well known Apple has a smaller headcount than Microsoft, and values certain things more than others.

Mr. Winer and you are totally entitled to your opinions, but mentioning the axes you have to grind in your criticism of Apple aren't great ways to be persuasive.

In order: OSX and Apple's hardware, because its worth owning, and nothing else. ChromeOS(via Hexxeh, at this point) can't adjust screen brightness. Ubuntu can't support 'proprietary wireless chipsets' on first boot - like it should matter. Vista was difficult to use for everything, it was disrespectful anyone got stuck with any of the 7 flavors of that turd. I looked at the font on a blackberry yesterday and could barely make out numbers; it's just so crappy.

Embrace the black plastic of all these windows-bundled laptops, I'll enjoy a machine I need to use for hours on end that feels designed and extruded instead of matte and injection moulded.

Oh, and regarding #10, from The Practice of System and Network Administration,

"15.1.2 - Fix the Cause, Not the Symptom

A coworker reports that there was a problem and that he fixed it. “What was the problem?” we inquire. “The host needed to be rebooted.” “What was the problem?” “I told you! The host needed to be rebooted.” A day later, the host needs to be rebooted again."

All in all I love the way the idea works right now, although Java feels less than elegant on the Mac.

*(er, although for me it's got a killer bug - using the hotkey to make a screenshot does not work, gives no option of cancelling... hardcore crasher in my book)