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Not sure if you remember what happened with that. The creator of dogetipbot held the money that wasn't withdrawn, then eventually froze withdrawals and absconde
by pcthrowaway 6y ago
Not sure if you remember what happened with that. The creator of dogetipbot held the money that wasn't withdrawn, then eventually froze withdrawals and absconded with a possible fortune (they claimed they were burning it to pay for ridiculous server costs, but I can't imagine running it would cost more than $20/week unless it was horrendously misconfigured)
- capableweb 6y ago> but I can't imagine running it would cost more than $20/week unless it was horrendously misconfigured Oh boy do I have news for you! Todays technology evangelists always starts a new product with at least three instances running three docker containers each, on expensive EC2 instances where you even pay for the bandwidth that should be free. Doesn't matter if you've found a product market fit first, engineers will read the latest Medium posts and implement things before thinking if they really need it. I've stopped counting the number of times I've seen over-engineered systems simply because developers just jump around implementing stuff they seem fit without actually researching things. So yes, probably most of the infrastructure you visit today could have been more lightweight, but that's not what the people implementing said infrastructure aims for.