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      4 months ago

      circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to “implement sawzall for mailserver logs”

      (I was extremely green at the time and I’ve since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)

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        4 months ago

        I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and… fun times

        (I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)