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thrown_produce commented on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?    · Posted by u/gavribirnbaum
TheRealDunkirk · 6 years ago
I work in a team closely related to another team, and together we're about 30 people in the midst of THOUSANDS of engineers responsible for shipping product. We are dying under the burden of tracking and correlating engineering decisions across product lines and customers through presentations (you can't have a meeting without PowerPoint!) and spreadsheets -- scattered all over internal shared drives -- email, and Skype chats (which the company won't allow history for). Just this week, I'm supposed to start working on a plan to implement a knowledgebase system to capture all of this information. Obviously, I'm very interested in the answers here.

The original question was about sharing knowledge amongst a TEAM, but almost all of the responses are about PERSONAL systems. I know most people watching this board are small-company startup types (in general), but I'm hoping that some of the old codgers, like me, working in creaky, legacy firms, have more to say. If we can't find something off-the-shelf here, I'm going to wind up writing some kludgy homegrown tool with Elasticsearch, and, frankly, this just doesn't interest me. I need answers people! The leader for large teams, according to what I see here, seems to be Confluence. Notion LOOKS cool, but putting this data in someone else's hosted service is an absolute non-starter for us.

thrown_produce · 6 years ago
Search a job board for an experienced ”Document Controller” with experience from large engineering projects and hire one or more. You need more than a tool, you need processes and a strong owner of those processes.
thrown_produce commented on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?    · Posted by u/swyx
dabockster · 8 years ago
IIRC, consumer wifi routers supposedly support a protocol that allows a computer to request a temporary port forward and release it when its finished using it.

Anyone remember what that protocol is called?

thrown_produce · 8 years ago
UPnP, Universal Plug and Play.
thrown_produce commented on Rackspace Developer+ Program   rackspace.com/blog/racksp... · Posted by u/jnoller
jnoller · 11 years ago
Working on that: if you email me: jesse.noller@rackspace.com I can confirm for you. I run a report regularly that enables a developer+ right hand support drawer.
thrown_produce · 11 years ago
sent!
thrown_produce commented on Rackspace Developer+ Program   rackspace.com/blog/racksp... · Posted by u/jnoller
wink · 11 years ago
So I just signed for an "international account" (and not UK) and my only server choices are the 3 US locations and HKG/SYD.

Looking forward to that latency :)

Of course it's not your fault, but if UK is the only sensible choice for people in the EU (and needs a seperate account), please don't call the other offer "International".

thrown_produce · 11 years ago
I agree.
thrown_produce commented on Rackspace Developer+ Program   rackspace.com/blog/racksp... · Posted by u/jnoller
thrown_produce · 11 years ago
There is no mentioned about Developer+ anywhere in the dashboard, account or billing-pages.

I would suggest that this and the time left is somewhere mentioned because I'm not exactly interested in paying a "infrastructure charge" for spinning up a few test-servers.

Second, I signed up via "International Customer" and according to the Dashboard I can't create servers in London - the only Datacenter in Europe. I'm in Europe so I would want to run my servers in Europe...

(I have opened a support ticket to confirm that I am indeed a Developer+ before I start creating anything.)

thrown_produce · 11 years ago
No reply yet from the "fanatical" support re: a simple billing/account type question.

Linode, whom we use but need a second cloud for DR, answers to these types of questions in minutes.

jnoller: Where in the dashboard can I verify that I have a Developer+ account?

thrown_produce commented on Rackspace Developer+ Program   rackspace.com/blog/racksp... · Posted by u/jnoller
thrown_produce · 11 years ago
There is no mentioned about Developer+ anywhere in the dashboard, account or billing-pages.

I would suggest that this and the time left is somewhere mentioned because I'm not exactly interested in paying a "infrastructure charge" for spinning up a few test-servers.

Second, I signed up via "International Customer" and according to the Dashboard I can't create servers in London - the only Datacenter in Europe. I'm in Europe so I would want to run my servers in Europe...

(I have opened a support ticket to confirm that I am indeed a Developer+ before I start creating anything.)

u/thrown_produce

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