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I feel bad for the person who made the mistake. Even though its obviously a systemic problem, and highly unlikely to be an act of negligence, Im sure he/she doe
by mixologic 12y ago
I feel bad for the person who made the mistake. Even though its obviously a systemic problem, and highly unlikely to be an act of negligence, Im sure he/she doesnt feel too hot right now.
- socceroos 12y agoMy thoughts exactly. Poor fella. I've seen worse though. A newish officer spilled his morning coffee into the circuitry of a device worth over 10 zeros. Immediately short circuited.
- tedsanders 12y agoThat sounds so awful. I can't imagine living the rest of my life knowing that I had been a net negative in the world. All of my life's earnings would just be a partial restitution of that one second of destruction.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoIf you have an EXTREMELY reductive point of view, that equates revenue with human worth.
- ddorian43 12y agoreally? what can cost that much ?
- themodelplumber 12y agoWow. Did this gold-plated B-2 bomber still fly after the coffee incident?
- jsmthrowaway 12y agoYou know you could build five space shuttles with ten zeros, right? Are we talking dollars or Yen?
- dsberkholz 12y agoMust be counting the two after the decimal point. =)
- stephengillie 12y agoWhy are you using a throwaway account? Ohh, I just saw the "dollars or Yen" remark. TIL we use throwaway accounts for the times we feel like being assholes, so the non-elites can't track it back to our physical neuroprocessors.
- jsmthrowaway 12y agoI'm not sure why I'm dignifying this Reddit drivel with a response, but my karma and account age should be your hint that you're barking up the wrong tree.
- stephengillie 12y ago"check my previous responses and my credit score for how you should treat me" ohh what an old-man response. It's too bad the Imgur "downvote everything they ever posted" script doesn't work here on HN, now isn't it? My account's karma and history exceed your account's on this site, and even worse, this individual comment bears more value than yours! Ooh burn!
- disillusioned 12y agoHaha, this is a pretty spectacular amount of cognitive dissonance you're demonstrating here. Let's post-mortem this lunacy: 1) You misinterpret jsmthrowaway's initial comment as vaguely racist (or something), notice the word "throwaway" in his user name and get really excited that you can stand on your high horse and call him out for hiding behind the shield of internet anonymity when he wants to be a (you think) racist idiot. Even though his comment is a legitimate currency conversion remark. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=1+usd+in+yen https://www.google.com/search?q=1+usd+in+yen 2) He explains that clearly you're mistaken (which, really, seriously, what a kneejerk response from someone who just wanted to show how clever they were, calling out an "asshole") and further explains his account isn't even a "throwaway" in the traditional, trolly sense of the word, citing his account age and the fact that he regularly actively posts to the account. 3) You, caught perhaps in a moment of clarity, though I think I give you too much credit here, realize you were too eager to pounce on the "asshole" for his "Yen" remark, and perhaps you misread it. Your latent erection fading, you counter by explaining that your history and karma are even _more_ impressive, somehow completely avoiding taking responsibility for a completely nonsensical leap in logic and accusation of wrongdoing, while doubling down on your cognitive dissonance. 4) The Aristocrats!
- xeroxmalf 12y agoSeems like not allowing food or drink near a device worth over 10 zeroes would be a no-brainer, but hindsight is tricky like that.
- pdeva1 12y agoif something worth over 10 zeroes can be destroyed with a coffee spill, i would say it had it coming
- mpyne 12y agoAs a one-time newish officer who used to be in charge of things with many zeroes, I'd be inclined to agree.
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- dewiz 12y agosupposedly 0.0000000001 billions of $ shit happens, design for the worst.
- stephengillie 12y ago"If you reach for a star, and come up with a handful of mud..."
- stephengillie 12y agoDOWNVOTE FOR TRUTH
- malchow 12y agoHow many non-zero integers were in the price of the device, though? My computer is also worth more than 10 zeros.
- stephengillie 12y agoPlease keep in mind that "price" means "how many dollars other humans are willing to trade for it right now"; not necessarily any concrete evaluation of the device's functionality compared to a human competitor or human operator...
- stephengillie 12y agoDOWNVOTE FOR TRUTH
- linker3000 12y ago...then there was the new server room that was built with one of the 'big red buttons' conveniently placed behind the pull cord for the lights. Why, yes...a couple of times...before a perspex arch was less-than-hastily fixed over the button..
- jsmthrowaway 12y agoIt's operations. You fuck up, you suck it up, you fix it, then (and this is the important part) you prevent it from ever happening again. Feeling like shit for bringing something down is a good way to give yourself depression, given how often you will screw the pooch with root. In the same vein, anybody who says they'd fire the operator without any qualification on that remark should be given a wide berth. People tend to forget that "fixing it" isn't just technical, it involves process, too. Every new hire that whines about change control and downtime windows would be the first to suggest them, were they troubleshooting the outage that demonstrated the need.
- myrandomcomment 12y agoBack in the day we used to say there are 2 types of network engineers, those that have dropped a backbone and those that will drop a backbone.
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- stephengillie 12y agoYour management is failing your newer engineers, if this is still the case.
- macavity23 12y agoNonsense. Someone has to be operating at the sharp end of the enable prompt, and sooner or later it'll be 0330 and that person will type Ethernet0 when they meant Ethernet1, whatever management you have in place. When that happens, you do just what Joyent did here: you send out an embarrassed email to customers, everyone else in the ops team gets a few cheap laughs at the miscreant's expense, you have a meeting about it, discuss lessons learned, and you move on. Everyone screws up. Everything goes down once in a while. This is why you build in redundancy at every level.
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