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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 01/08/2014 20:17, James wrote: |
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> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> >> New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from |
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> >> 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to all |
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> >> ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not |
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> >> clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no |
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> >> error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT |
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> > Sounds like a department full of computer scientist I inherited a few |
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> > decades ago........... |
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> I've met folks like that.... |
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> Brilliant in their chosen field but completely useless outside it? The |
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> kind of fellows who see nothing wrong with eating a barbeque'd steak |
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> with a spoon because they can get a result? |
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> > I know nothing bout chronos, but I find it an interesting read....ymmv. |
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> > http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/ |
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> > http://airbnb.github.io/chronos/ |
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> > https://github.com/airbnb/chronos |
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> Aaaaaaaah, now this sounds like something I can use. Proper dependency |
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> chains, Restful JSON interface so the devs can write code to drive it in |
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> automation. |
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> Good find, thanks! |
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Unless I am missing something, chronos is not in the tree at all. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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