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Even though I'm a SG customer, I can't help but feel a little schadenfreude. edit: when I made this comment I thought this was a random service failure that wo
by slig 14y ago
Even though I'm a SG customer, I can't help but feel a little schadenfreude.
edit: when I made this comment I thought this was a random service failure that would last couple of minutes. More than 1 hour later, I don't think it's that funny anymore as I'm being affected as well.
- efa 14y agoSG customer as well. What's all the negativity towards them? Is there something I should know about them? I wasn't aware of any incidents.
- spindritf 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515
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- adambenayoun 14y agoThere's not much negativity toward them just a bit of criticism on how they're handling this outage. As I mentioned in another comment of mine on that thread - they should have reached out to customers and let them know there's an outage (especially if this is an outage that is > 10 minutes). P.S: I still think Sendgrid are awesome and fortunately they'll listen to what we have to say and next outage will be handled differently.
- JPKab 14y agoA female Sendgrid employee overheard a joke mentioning a dongle looking like a phallus, took a picture of the guy, posted it to Twitter, and he got fired from his job without anyone hearing his side of the story. His apologies were ignored. Now the mob is mad at Sendgrid.
- thisone 14y agoand by mob we mean possibly one person acting like a dongle and knocking out a website.
- Raynh 14y agoRead this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515
- rmrfrmrf 14y agoReally? All it says to me is that people in the tech field are so against a woman standing up for herself that they're actually willing to bring down the company she works for. It's disgusting. Will you also feel schadenfreude when they hack her bank account?
- Raynh 14y agoWoman standing for herself, aka a woman randomly attacking a man who made a joke about dongles? Really? I will definitely feel schadenfreude if her bank account gets hacked. After all, she did rid a person of their income by her actions.
- rmrfrmrf 14y agoWhat the fuck is HN becoming...Jesus.
- obstacle1 14y agoUser created: 2 hours ago 2 posts. Happens all the time, always has.
- btilly 14y agoLet me pose two theories for you. 1. The guy who got fired had an overzealous manager who fired with insufficient cause. 2. The guy who got fired had a history that we don't know, but the manager does, and this was the final straw. Both theories are possible. I personally have known a higher portion of guys fitting #2 than managers who would enable #1. Therefore conditional probability suggests to me that he was fired for more than just this incident. If so then his firing would not be her fault. (Even in #1 the firing was not her fault - it was the manager's.)
- jordan0day 14y ago"(Even in #1 the firing was not her fault - it was the manager's.)" But in this case, it's not a simple binary case of was/was not "her fault". It's at least partly her fault, regardless of the accuracy of scenario #1 or #2. There is a chain of causality here, and it all starts with Adria's tweet/blog post. I'd also argue that your two theories represent a false dichotomy, and sussing out your conclusion based on the idea that there really are only two possible explanations (throw in some personal anecdotes for good measure!) is, well... lazy.
- rdl 14y agoSchadenfreude is, however, not an RFC compliant message delivery protocol.
- robflynn 14y agoSame here. I just flipped the switch to send things from an internal server, bypassing SG for now.