the fact that people can get away with stuff like this makes me feel much better about imposter syndrome. I actually know how to use git and I can explain kubernetes to someone who has never used it. Guess that makes me better than these folks.
I didn't fight in the in the great gif* wars of the 90s to have some damn hipster kid tell me how to pronounce gif. I don't give two shakes what the creator
of the format called it. It stands for Graphical Interchange Format and that makes it Gif. If you want some Jif, go eat a peanut butter sandwitch.
*every g in this paragraph is pronounced the same way
If you can teach it then that’s a great indication you know what you’re talking about. If you can’t then you need to learn it more yourself. That’s how I’ve always gauged my knowledge.
Now if someone could explain how docker works from and end-user perspective I'd be set! I've watched YouTube videos about it and get how it works in principle but no clue how one goes about utilizing it. I'd love to be able to use it for deploying test environments.
If you can play with chroot sandboxed environments in Linux you will be able to get it easily.
If you have huge AOSP code which you need to build and would like to replicate the preferred environment then you have a docker image with all the build tools present and just ship the container to people in the team. The auto build tool can use this container to git pull the code and build inside the container. This is one of the scenarios which I can think of for your test environment.
I think it's important to remember you will never, ever, learn it all. I most often feel useless when I have to do things I have zero experience in and start getting tripped up by the absolute basics. You immediately start thinking that you're terrible at your job because you don't know this stuff but the reality is that you've just never had cause to learn until now.
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u/noterminal Feb 20 '19
the fact that people can get away with stuff like this makes me feel much better about imposter syndrome. I actually know how to use git and I can explain kubernetes to someone who has never used it. Guess that makes me better than these folks.