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Someone posted a link to ServerFault’s ‘magento’ tag, which drew me in
and I answered a few questions to boost my (pathetic) karma on the
StackExchange sites.
The magento tag and varnish tag have some great questions, and
after several years of dealing with both, I’m equipped to give some good
answers (IMHO), but then after cruising through the new questions for
a while I start to feel a bit sad.
There’s lots of people just trying to
solve their problems and getting help, and that’s great, but sometimes you come
across a question and you think “this question comes from a really weird set
of values / a sad situation / some horrible condition placed on you”. It’s kind
of a culture shock maybe, and not just limited to technology
sites.
This question on Bicycles StackExchange, “Can a bent hub damage my fork?”
is the latest in a series of questions which could be rephrased as “How dangerous
does my bike have to become before I fix it?”. To their credit, the community
does jump in:
“If the axle is bent, the fork would only be my second concern, right after
my teeth.” — arne
I think ServerFault gets me the most, because, as a system administrator and a
programmer, I feel that there’s a higher bar (or that there should be) to looking
after servers than for running code, in the level of experience you should have
before doing important things.
Not to run down programming, because experience is
super important there, too, but with administration you’re one rm away from
a very bad day, at all times.
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