Today was pretty cool.
I got to talk to Pfizer about the software I’ve been writing. No, they don’t actually have large bowls of Viagra sitting around on the desks. That’s a myth. Looks like I haven’t been fooling myself about how cool this stuff might be. Or at the very least, now someone else is fooled along with me.
Made small changes to the installer for our software. Put said changes on disk. Said: “no! no! Test THEN ship!” as I watched the disk sail out the door. This could get ugly.
Got to fix a 230 node cluster that we hadn’t even known about before 3pm today. I wouldn’t have thought that something that big could sneak up on me, but it did. It’s mostly better…but these people are going to have to do some serious thinking in the not too distant future. 230 is well above the threshold for some architectural decisions that cost substantial money. It’s possible that they’ll be the first group ever to (for example) not get bitten by how brittle NFS is, but I doubt it.
Talked to a general contractor about the house. He’ll fix it. It’ll cost money. Wheeeeee.
Next week, training at MIT. That’s right, me training them. I should take the rejection letter from my application when I was an undergrad. 🙂
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