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posted by martyb on Friday May 12 2017, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-pup-pet-is-not-a-puppet dept.

Geekwire reports that Puppet, the company behind the eponymous configuration management software, is set to expand to Seattle, Sydney and Singapore. The company already has offices in Belfast and Portland.

Chef, perhaps Puppet's great rival in the burgeoning field known as DevOps, is headquartered in Seattle, which sets up an interesting battle for talent over the next few years. A lot of Bay Area companies have opened up offices in Seattle after tiring of the talent wars in California [...]

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If you have used either or both of Puppet or Chef, how has it worked out for you? If you've tried both, which did you decide to use and what influenced your decision?


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 13 2017, @06:05PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday May 13 2017, @06:05PM (#509219)

    Say what you will about New York City, but its male/female ratio is 40/60. For geeks it's even more favorable than that in practice because in the population of young available males with disposable income there are otherwise finance types or advertising dorks.

    I used to live close to NYC and visited there a bunch of times since it was a 1-hour bus ride away. There's a few problems with your logic.

    First off, if you're on this site you're likely a techie/geek as you mention. The problem there is that there isn't much work in that area, unless you're a web developer or you're in financial programming. I do embedded programming, C, C++ etc., and my job prospects were almost nil on the NY side of the Hudson. (Now if you do web dev, yeah, there's lots of that work there, so obviously this is biased towards my specialty.) I did interview for a couple of finance jobs but that didn't go too far, and from what I could tell the working hours were insane. They also didn't seem to be too interested in people coming from a non-finance background. And honestly, financial programming is seriously soul-sucking.

    However if you're thinking geeks will do well with the ladies there, think again. Geeks don't make as much as bankers and admen, and can't afford swank condos usually, so you're not going to attract too many women there with your earning power. And geeks do not command any kind of social respect in this country overall the way bankers do. And from what I saw on the dating sites, NYC women really want to date men who read a lot of hip, contemporary literature. You can probably find some women who are lower down the socioeconomic ladder, but you're probably not going to do well with educated professionals.

    It still sounds a lot better than working for Amazon though.

    BTW, the rain in Seattle sounds like a plus for me. I hate hot, summer days and sunshine gives me sunburn.

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