Any other IT/programmer Opponauts out there?

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04/28/2015 at 19:24 • Filed to: None

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Just curious. It’d be interesting to see a real good computer/IT/programmer related equivalent to Opposite Lock.

Opposite Tech? Techposite Lock? I can’t think of a decent name for it.


DISCUSSION (23)


Kinja'd!!! FrankenBlaster > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:26

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I’m with you on that. Seems like there’s a bunch of people on here who are pretty savvy or in the field.


Kinja'd!!! El Darto > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:28

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Computer tech. I also dabble in a few programming languages that I use for some personal projects.


Kinja'd!!! Brian, The Life of > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:37

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Enterprise SaaS Product Manager, here. :)


Kinja'd!!! Saracen > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:37

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Sr. Software Engineer of 13 years experience here (well, professionally...I’ve been programming since I was a kid)


Kinja'd!!! Justin Hughes > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:39

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My day job is documentation and QA.


Kinja'd!!! Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 19:50

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Systems Admin / Engineer (depends on who you aks) here. I know all things Windows / PowerShell.

I’m currently up to my balls in Project Kinda . It’s forcing me to learn things I never expected I’d want to.


Kinja'd!!! RustedSprinter > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 20:12

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College helpdesk student worker. Im a mechanical engineering major tho.


Kinja'd!!! Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 20:18

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Why not call it something kinda topical, like Onboard Diagnostics, or The Code Reader?


Kinja'd!!! Bad Idea Hat > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 20:37

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Systems admin, or something. I’m also a part time psychologist, sociologist, educator, comedian, rocket surgeon, hostage negotiator, and crisis diffuser.

I work in a school.


Kinja'd!!! Clown Shoe Pilot > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 20:45

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Network Engineer/IT Manager here


Kinja'd!!! twochevrons > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 22:02

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I’m currently a jack-of-all-trades Windows/Mac/Linux sysadmin at a university high-performance computing center. It’s a pretty awesome job (especially as a part-time student gig), and I get to play with some really cool toys (16,848-processor supercomputer, anybody?), but when I graduate this summer I’m making the switch to software engineering for a company whose name is pretty much synonymous with supercomputing. Much excite.


Kinja'd!!! Long Live the Longdoor > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 22:31

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Web Dev of 7 years here :)


Kinja'd!!! BJ > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 22:39

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Java dev here.


Kinja'd!!! BaconSandwich is tasty. > twochevrons
04/28/2015 at 22:57

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That’s pretty awesome. At the university I just did my master’s at, they had Condor - some sort of grid compute system. Not nearly that big, though - like < 1000 processors.


Kinja'd!!! BaconSandwich is tasty. > Nibbles
04/28/2015 at 22:58

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How about Debug?


Kinja'd!!! BaconSandwich is tasty. > Justin Hughes
04/28/2015 at 22:59

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I feel your pain. I’ve been there, done that. Documentation I really didn’t mind. QA - not so much. At least it was nice getting quantifiable results, day in and day out.


Kinja'd!!! Nibbles > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 23:00

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Debug would be awesome too. Nice and short for the stupid URL bullshit :)


Kinja'd!!! R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/28/2015 at 23:20

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10 years at different levels of windows enterprise infrastructure as well as DoD high level cyber warfare prevention.


Kinja'd!!! Gabriel > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/29/2015 at 07:16

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Software engineer here! Would love to see something like that


Kinja'd!!! luxw > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/29/2015 at 07:33

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I’m also a programmer and I would love a “Oppositetech” kind of blog.


Kinja'd!!! Justin Hughes > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/29/2015 at 09:15

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I definitely prefer the documentation part of the job, since I’m a writer. But they pay me to do both, so that's what I do.


Kinja'd!!! twochevrons > BaconSandwich is tasty.
04/29/2015 at 09:53

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Yeah, with hardware being so cheap these days, they’re becoming easier and easier to build. At least in my experience, most parallel jobs use only a small fraction of our systems, so they’d just as happily run on a smaller machine – the level of scale that we run on just lets more people run jobs at once.

In many ways, supercomputing is one of the last bastions of the old mainframe mindset. Sure, these days, supercomputers are just massive clusters of commodity hardware with high-speed interconnects rather than special-purpose machines, but it’s still very old-school from a user perspective. You submit your “job” using somewhat arcane command-line tools , it gets scheduled for some time in the future, and you just cross your fingers and hope that it works. Programming for them is also a really interesting experience: at a scale of hundreds or thousands of processes distributed across different nodes, you have to be really mindful of how you decompose and distribute parallel tasks. It’s a fun challenge.


Kinja'd!!! BaconSandwich is tasty. > twochevrons
04/29/2015 at 20:14

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Indeed. I find it quite interesting the sort of stuff that some people are doing with GPU computing.