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February 7th, 2010
02:07 pm - A mean idea to call my own
I've spent some time the last few days working on MacOS kernel module stuff for OpenAFS. At the moment, trying to fix something which we'd previously left unimplemented, I've got a situation that results in a deadlock. I can, to a limited extent, figure out where, but not why.
Many people have people they can talk to when they get stuck. I appreciate that as someone who started with a mature distributed system, I am standing on the shoulders of giants, and so I don't think I'm anyone special. This just drives it home. It's not so much that it's lonely at the top. It's lonely on the shoulders.
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![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/120417578/862819) | | From: |  plexq |
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| Date: | February 8th, 2010 02:33 am (UTC) |
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Heh - I totally get where you are coming from. I work for a company of 2000 people, and I post with a question of the company blog-thingie, and no-one has any clues. If I'm running into it, chances are nobody else had tried to do what I'm doing before. It really sucks. And it's always something high-profile, deadly urgent, so I don't have time to wait for a mailing-list response from the relevant community, if there even is one. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/15134229/469972) | | From: | rmitz |
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| Date: | February 8th, 2010 04:16 am (UTC) |
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At least you can commiserate. After a certain point, if you're really good at your job, that's mostly what's left. | From: | alicelee |
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| Date: | February 12th, 2010 01:44 am (UTC) |
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Some times, it's just plain lonely.
Good luck! |
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