markshuttle

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by markshuttle 1y ago
These bug reports are most appreciated; we fully expected to run into corner case issues like this. The team working on Rust coreutils have been loving the feedback wider testing provides, and I am sure that 25.10's wide usage will ena
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by markshuttle 2y ago
Your free personal Ubuntu Pro subscription does in fact cover as many VMs and containers as you can run on up to five personal machines, as the OP well knows. I like that we make Ubuntu Pro, including universe updates, free for anyone runni
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by markshuttle 3y ago
In my experience it's university access that's very heavily shaped by privilege, not high school. High school is a sort of universal misery - pretty much everyone who might be applying for a job with us, from almost any country, w
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by markshuttle 3y ago
Well, yes, it was a shitty and unnecessary jab. Sorry for that. But really, it was a jab at the GW Bush White House administration, not the civil service. I grew up a great fan of the US and Bush-Iraq felt like something important in the wo
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by markshuttle 3y ago
Exactly :) It was still a brat comment though. I'd forgotten about that. Thank goodness we grow out of some things.
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by markshuttle 3y ago
If I remember correctly, the candidate was interested in a product management role for our cloud offerings, which is something that I care a great deal about. Hi, Rui ;) And yes, I'm on calls through lunch and dinner, so I sometimes ge
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by markshuttle 3y ago
It's quite right that commercial entities tend to focus on commercial imperatives. But Canonical is unusual - I founded it precisely to support a more open approach to open source than I was seeing from the other enterprise Linuxes in
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by markshuttle 3y ago
We have no plans to drop support for any other distro. I like that open source serves more users and use cases than its creators imagined :) We've moved our development to the Canonical github repos because that's the only way we
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by markshuttle 3y ago
That speculation is simply incorrect. We've never had a discussion about dropping support for other distros. Open source is better when more people use it, and that means its better to have it used on other distros. We've always t
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Emotive analogy, but lets run with it. We've all decided to build with sustainable local materials, which anybody can dig up without harming the environment. That's wonderful! Unfortunately, the materials sometimes turn out to hav
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by markshuttle 4y ago
We have a set of criteria for things we always did in universe, and we'll keep doing those things, as will other members of the Ubuntu community. Even without Pro you are better off using Ubuntu than another free distro if you care abo
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Not true. The Canonical security team and wider Ubuntu contributors will still make best efforts to update universe. Neither the team nor I are interested in degrading a prior experience for our free users. We know what the criteria were fo
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by markshuttle 4y ago
People have different views of what matters, or how to do things. Whatever your views, there are going to be some people that agree with you, and some people that disagree. Broadly speaking, when you lead something, the people who will step
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Life after high school is also full of trauma and difficulty. I think one of our problems in society today is that advertising and social media pump out a false narrative of beauty and success which makes people feel like failures just beca
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by markshuttle 4y ago
You're welcome :)
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by markshuttle 4y ago
There are always lots of opinions about how to build a piece of software. Unlike a hundred yard dash, where the best performance is obvious to all, the risks and benefits of different engineering approaches remain a mystery until years afte
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by markshuttle 4y ago
I can see how you would draw those conclusions, because yes, we have made mistakes, and we do have some products that are proprietary, and we have made some shitty software. At the scale of hundreds of engineers working on tens of codebases
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Yes, data shapes decisions. Should that not be the case? A hiring lead is expected to find the best candidates, not just the ones with a higher number on a simplistic test. Your point is correct that a hiring lead with bad judgement or lo
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by markshuttle 4y ago
No, it's not normal. But your conclusion that I did this because I don't trust colleagues is mistaken. I did it to figure out how we should shape the hiring process, and so I could relate to the workload and problems that hiring l
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by markshuttle 4y ago
We don't.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
That was a regrettable exchange, and contrition was expressed.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
I'm not sure whether you are poorly informed or simply over-generalising.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Then we are in agreement :)
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Or, it allows for the conversation to start naturally from that point. "In your written interview, you observed that... can you expand on that?"
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Exactly. Also, a craftsman would treat their screwdriver with respect and care, too.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
To be clear, we are hiring lots of people every month now. We have 10,000-20,000 applications per month, it's just that we have a very high bar, and we are rigorous about it which takes time and effort. Also, our process doesn't w
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by markshuttle 4y ago
High school is also a very similar experience for people all over the world, which is not the case for university or work experience. If you are interested in understanding underlying interests, social dynamics and attitudes in a global poo
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by markshuttle 4y ago
Who you are, and what you have done, are of course two very different things.
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by markshuttle 4y ago
We generally discuss salary after we've got through early-stage interviews. By then we have a sense of whether someone might be great at Canonical, and we're trying to figure out where they might fit best. If a candidate has hig
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by markshuttle 4y ago
In our case, we are remote first across 50+ countries, so not really in the business of trying to import colleagues to one country or another.

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