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Been waiting for a company to announce shutdown after this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=144764

• Dreami 9y ago
  Well it's kind of the opposite, isn't it? ;)
  • fps 9y ago
    In both cases, critical data with no backups was deleted by an ex-employee. In the "first day" story, it just happened to be both his first day and last day. I guess the difference is that one was a developer and the other an admin. No telling from this story if the person who deleted the data was an employee when they deleted the data.
  • jldugger 9y ago
    If you take Verelox's word for it. Or if you want to be more conspiratorial, you could see your firing on the wall, tweak the new hire docs to lead to trashing prod, and just wait for the inevitable. Or these two events are unrelated. Or the whole deleted prod on day 1 story is made up.
• emeraldd 9y ago
  Anecdotally, the timing doesn't match. Based on this https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/116329/what-s-up-with-verelox-being-down https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/116329/what-s-up-with-... it looks like they went down on early on the 8th give or take a bit and the other was posted around then 2nd ... Edit: Make that the 7th based on: https://www.facebook.com/Verelox/posts/1886196381643427?comment_id=1893011374295261&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D https://www.facebook.com/Verelox/posts/1886196381643427?comm...