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Finding a Valuable Startup Ops Hire

What qualities make for a good startup hire in general and what are the special challenges of the first hire for the team, or, the foundational member of any new team. This really applies pretty broadly to any type of team, not necessarily ops in particular.

So if you're a founder, and you're saying, "I need an ops team. I'm going to sit back and think about the ideal operations engineer and the list of skills and expertise that I would really like them to possess," and your list probably looks something like this.

Obviously, you want them to be an expert at Ruby or Python, some deep systems knowledge is great. They should also know how to recompile kernel modules. It would be super awesome if they were good at security, and they know how to do TripWire and all that shit.

They should be a great networking engineer. It would be really great if they know how to sniff TCP packets and unpack them, obviously they need to know Chef and Puppet. All this shit.

SlideMark is a system to allow attendees to capture high-quality images of presentation slides, optionally with notes attached, to be emailed to the user at the conclusion of the conference. It is a third-party product that is being beta tested at DevOpsDays PDX; the idea is to eliminate the need for attendees to take photographs of slides on screen by providing easy access to higher-quality images without affecting the experience of other attendees.

To use SlideMark:

During the conference (this link will not work until the start of DevOpsDays PDX) visit https://slidemark.alfordmedia.com to enter your email address and click the Submit button.
On the device of your choice (SlideMark is optimized for smartphones but should work with any reasonably modern Web browser), read the confirmation email and click on the confirmation link in that email. If you did not receive the confirmation email, please check your junk mail folder. You can return to https://slidemark.alfordmedia.com at any time to reenter your

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'octokit'

	REPO = 'analog-analytics/merchant-portal'
	BRANCH = 'master'

	# get a token with:
	# curl -u '<username>' -d '{"scopes":["repo"],"note":"for CLI use"}' https://api.github.com/authorizations

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	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Dockernews</title>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
	</head>
	<body>
	<div class="container">
	<div class="row">
	<h3>Dockernews</h3>

	module Comrad

	module Config
	atttr_accessor :config
	@config \|\|= load_config

	def self.load_config
	# load from file
	end
	end

	# Originally posted to hangops.slack.com by [email protected]

	import random

	Prefixlist = ['Viceroy','Commandant', 'Grand Poo-Bah', 'Archon', 'Duke', 'Chancellor', 'President', 'Marquis', 'Earl', 'Director', 'Chair', 'Head', 'Senior Director']

	Prefixlist2 = ['Principal','Chief','Head','Lead', 'Senior', 'Master']

	Joblist = ['Solutions', 'Systems', 'Network', 'Security', 'Compliance', 'Information', 'Scalability']

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Copyright (c) 2016 Matt Greensmith and Cozy Services Ltd.
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
	# this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
	# the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
	# copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
	# Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
	# subject to the following conditions:

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	"issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mgreensmith/testrepo/issues/1",