ram or rpi3

or ssd

sorry for being conventional

have you done programmable logic

maybe some beginner fpga board

"yes", in Verilog or VHDL (preferably the former)

if you're a student you can get them on discount

but it's not exactly like a "load a bunch of cool software and do rando stuff easily" deal like a rpi

run an irc server

http://www.inspircd.org/

that one is pretty good; it's not autist approved since it strays away from oldschool codebases but imho that's part of the charm

tN.micros on aws can get throttled if you use up too many cycles so stuff like web and irc are good

don't, don't compile stuff

if you wanna learn things, an openvpn server is fine too, but watch out for bandwidth usage on the free tier

the openvpn server is pretty easy to set up; the hard part is learning to finesse around openssl commands, and that's kind of worth it

great

the real good of an aws dev account is learning the aws ecosystem

the more you think of it as another VPS the worst off you are and you don't gain from their service abstractions

having memcached or a sql server spin up as an appliance is kinda neato

and yeah AWS is expensive

i've never paid for it; only use it through work

but the cost of AWS is basically a means for entities to abstract away their IT staff so it's "worth it"

don't need to pay homo sapiens to run stuff

functionally - no; but, they provide API endpoints to abstracted services, so, instead of running some config mgmt or cloudinit script to provision a VPS instance for something like hadoop, you just use Amazon's shit by saying "I want a hadoop instance that does N-cycles amt of work" or whatever.

it's "magic"

idk you should research it yourself. it's worth learning if not only for the resume padding if you're a career-minded type.

as far as that $50, how about software defined radio gear

idk wtf ur interested in

cool

imho hobby stuff is not worth buying since it's mostly distraction. if your goal is programming, just code.

no no no

i mean

you can do plenty of programming without gadgets

and have lots of fun

yeah, the devices tend to lock you into a particular paradigm or some specific language / libraries / dialects and you end up fighting hardware and getting distracted

rpi is different since they're mostly transparent and you can treat them like another machine

but arduinos and fpgas and stuff, not really transferrable and in the end not worth it

general processing almost always wins in the long term

unless you're writing password crackers or something

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sorry i'm a bit of a killjoy

but I have a neckbeardy giant box(es) of hardware I've accumulated over the years so it's kinda speaking from exp

yeah it's all fun and games until like... you're fighting some stupid hardware bug or wasting time with some bogus line connection

devops is "hot" or whatever. learn saltstack or coreos or something.

easy job in most metro markets

everyone wants to save money and replace oldschool admins.

aws learner account comes in handy there

don't do web programming. shit is terribad.

if you're good enough at it you can make good scratch but don't get stuck is all

it's a treadmill

you move to whatever is trendo

RoR was popular 5 years ago and now it's shiet right

yeah idk i'm probably biased.

infra stuff, the meta task of spinning up lots of your SaaS webapps

and keeping all the plates in the air, monitored and not pwned by the worst enemy: ourselves

it happens

people aren't that good

there's a laundry list of stuff you watch out for but yeah i mean, your rinkydink app probabilistically isn't an attractive target to anyone besides folks hunting for trophies right

there's xss stuff in addition to input sql / stack smash attacks or whatever

but i was actually referring to devs who push out malperforming code

it happens way too often, stupid race conditions esp with front end js these days, which is really frustrating because that's tough to run a test for; it's the halting problem etc

but yeah sometimes the old dumb use of ORM knocks down a DB and whoops there goes our weekend

oh so

with AWS there's a cheat code there in the form of being able to feed more horsepower to dynamoDB and such

and that's basically where people fuck themselves

it's enough to make someone want to stop doing tech stuff and go into ... marketing or something. :/

too many incompetents

nyc

so my experience is likely colored

hell no

we have a large sample space is all

there's a toxic work culture thing in tech the past few years where everyone wants their teams to work like it's a startup and put in 60 hours a week to push inane projects out

likely not going away

which os? usually /etc/php/php.ini no

find . | grep php

are you using php-fpm

on my machine it's /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini, but i'm using php-fpm

the non-fpm one is likely /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

that's on a debian box

should be the same.

anyway was fun chatting with ya, gonna take care of stuff rl

i worked in a few startups

and a few traditional corps

they're all trying hard to be startuppy now

to varying degrees of success

ya should prolly learn2 config mgmt

so you don't need to force remember administrivia

how about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laup1sXh5LE

a lot cheaper than $599 https://www.saleae.com/

hi

who doesn't amirite

i was looking to do this myself, but I found it and lol'ed-noped https://github.com/stucki/docker-cyanogenmod

even with all the requisite work done for me there's no friggin way I'm building my own image build environment. why cyanogenmod image so heug

i don't think that's the only reason

kinda big impediment to adding significant devs to work on this though, no?

hey it's actually not that bad

@Aevo folks said that about japan in the 50s and 60s now look at japs is even higher quality than best country, I'm talking about Texas of course not including gayass austin damn shame

even I drive jap cars now my tacoma is admittedly better than my no-good borther-in-law's F-150

mark my words son we're gonna all drive china in a few years cause all they gonna make in this country is them faggot electric cars for faggots with teslas self-drivers. the true path to salvation gonna be unlicensed chinese vehicles without electrical gps IoT shut-outs regulated by the FCC-FTC-FBI

listen to me I'm from the future