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Actually I don't think any of the outages have been caused by this. The prospect does add an edge of excitement to programming though. Gamification for progra
by pg 13y ago
Actually I don't think any of the outages have been caused by this. The prospect does add an edge of excitement to programming though. Gamification for programmers!
- rdl 13y agoThere was one outage caused by a runaway which testing would have easily caught; I think about last year.
- cperciva 13y agoAre you thinking of this outage from last month? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591
- rdl 13y agoThere was something from >1y ago.
- maxerickson 13y agoProbably this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 (I remembered "new user" so was able to get a search to work...)
- pg 13y agoGood catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.
- rdl 13y agoYep. That's the kind of thing which is fun for hn but wouldn't be a good idea at all on a financial system -- where you optimize for least bad likely worst case, not best best case.
- morbius 13y agoThat's interesting insight. I wonder what would happen if Bank of America took that same approach to pushing changes... ...what about the White House? ;)
- rdl 13y agoIf there is any world where the 95th percentile programmer at BOA is as good as pg, perhaps.