nullserver

I was a competent programmer and a Linux user, but system stuff always seemed like black magic.

With this book I was able to tackle much harder problems

Read through it, worked many of the examples. Had a 20 bump in salary.

Owners would rather let the land sit empty then deal with the nightmare it would create.

JavaScript was a minefield of compatibility problems. Many intentional, cough: Microsoft.

Jquery was awesome because it dealt with most of that

Email can’t go father then 500 miles

One day I got a text that my balance was low. As I picked up my phone I got another saying balance was 0. While I was opening the app to add funds I got another text saying my service would be turned off if I didn’t pay.

While on the confirm payment screen my power went out.

All happened in about 10 seconds.

So you think any of the resized how absurdly high market rates can get.

What I didn’t realize was she canceling and redoing the tickets over and over again, each charging me for them. A grand each time. So I ended up in a foreign country penniless. Airline company said it was fine since my funds would be returned in a week.

I don’t hear about it much anymore but for years was terrified of making a cell data mistake and ending up with a 40k+ bill.

I was in bed 16 hours a day nearly blind and extreme agony for nearly a year.

Disability laughed at me. Said I had a desk job so it was fine, all I had to do was sit their.

After awhile they would all become unusable, and I would reinstall everything back to default and try again. Great for leaning, lousy for day to day work.

Resetting things back to a known state can make life lot easier.

In 10 years I can’t recall needing to reset a Mac.

Bartenders would favor employees with big hands.

Government came in and printed gold coins to solve the currency problem. However it turns out that a 50 dollar gold coin is not useful in any but the largest transactions.

Had someone at work mention they needed to drop off a dog at grooming on the way to pick up Chinese.

I had to walk away for a bit, as I couldn’t hold it in, but didn’t know if that sort of humor would fly with that crowd.

It certainly caught my attention.

Had been like that for nearly a year. A few minutes of work brought out client js file from 12MB to less then 1mb.

I was informed they were less then six months old. Resigned by end of month.

Remove that fear and a significant segment of the population will go on a rampage.

Probably similar to people living in a cave and refusing to leave it out of fear.

Rebuilding after disasters is a tried and true method.

Targeted ads work really well for many scenarios, b2b software.

I got injured and disability decided to play hard ball.

Working whatever hours I could be functional and being able to stop and rest, or wait for medication side effects to ease off. These are the only thing that kept us off the street.

Weird experience

No one believed me. Kept shoving anti-depressants at me.

Took better then 2 years to find out what the stroke like symptoms were. They were strokes, go figure.

Toxic exposure activated factor 5 Leiden. So my blood clots like crazy now. Wasn’t an issue before.

Again, doctors don’t like to get involved.

Wife had a horrific cough for a year, then recovered. Kid isn’t the brightest anymore. But that’s hard to prove.

Plus they had no idea what 3 months of natural gas exposure would do to body.

Turns out most cases of being exposed to that much and that long simply end in explosion.

Rented a house from Invitation Homes. Show up. All windows open. House looks great, sign paperwork. Agent leaves.

Closed up windows, notice a chemical smell. Call, and told it’s just new carpeting, will be gone soon.

Me and family proceed to get extremely sick over the next months. Like people can’t wake up, forgetting names, stroke symptoms, etc.

Many calls got nothing but run around. Our mental capacities are greatly diminished.

Turns out there was a massive natural gas leak. Plus multiple appliances emitting Carbon monoxide.

Gas company stated it was a race to dying in sleep or house exploding.

So they knew house had weird smells and fed us endless lies about carpets, flooring, paint etc.

Carbon monoxide detector that came with the house was defective.

Destroyed health and career. One kid went from advanced placement to special needs. Dog went insane.

We also had a wall catch on fire, ac drop through a ceiling into kids room.

We left moment we could, and have a nice big bill from them for breaking lease.

Invitation Homes is straight up evil.