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For those who don't know who he is: l9i would know this. Just clarifying that this is not an Internet nobody guessing.
by knorker 5y ago
For those who don't know who he is: l9i would know this. Just clarifying that this is not an Internet nobody guessing.
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoHe is still an anonymous dude to me.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- danhak 5y agoHN Profile -> Personal Website -> LinkedIn -> Over 10 years experience as Google Site Reliability Engineer
- ant6n 5y agoIs the LinkedIn profile linking back to the hn account?
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoSecurity Engineer asking?
- ant6n 5y agoHa, no. It just occured to me that any random hacker news account could link to somebody's personal account and claim authority on some subject.
- e1g 5y agoGoogle SRE for 10 years, ending as the Principal Site Reliability Engineer (L8).
- sulam 5y agos/the// Google has more than 1 L8 SRE.
- jaywalk 5y agoI don't know who either he or you are, so...
- knorker 5y agoI was clarifying his comment, since he didn't mention that this is not a guess, but inside knowledge. I was not trying to establish a trust chain. Take from it what you will.
- astrange 5y agoWhy does it matter if he's guessing or not?
- fragmede 5y agoBecause, it may shock you to know, but sometimes people just go on the Internet and tell lies. No shit Google has plans in place for outages. But what are these plans, are they any good... a respected industry figure who's CV includes being at Google for 10 years doesn't need to go into detail describing the IRC fallback to be believed and trusted that there is such a thing.
- new_guy 5y agoThat's just an 'appeal to authority'. No-one knows or cares who made the statement, it may as well have been 'water is wet', it was useless and adds nothing but noise.
- heartbreak 5y agoThat’s…not what “appeal to authority” means.
- l9i 5y agoI found a comment that was factually incorrect and I felt competent to comment on that. Regrettably, I wrote just one sentence and clicked reply without providing any credentials to back up my claim. Not that I try to hide my identity, as danhak pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751644, my full name and URL of my personal website are only a click away. I have replied to my initial comment with provide some additonal context: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28752431 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28752431. Hope that helps.
- astrange 5y agoI've found that when I post things I learned on the job here it actually causes people to tell me I'm wrong or made it up even more often…