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by otterley 6mo ago
A corporation is made of people. GitHub cannot exist but for the people who continue to work for it. And they’ve already said, multiple times, that restoring availability is their top priority.
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by otterley 6mo ago
A company is made of individual workers. That doesn’t change because there are a lot of them or that their employer has a lot of money.
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by otterley 6mo ago
The commenter inserted his own personal bona fides (as a proxy for skill, experience, and knowledge) and use them to bolster his conclusion of culpability and incompetence of the GitHub team. If you take that risk, you should expect to be c
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by otterley 6mo ago
Fraud is a serious civil and criminal accusation that’s not to be taken or given lightly. Can you detail the fraud that’s being committed? What is the specific promise they made that you’re being deprived of? Remember, the four corners of y
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by otterley 6mo ago
I agree 100%! But this important distinction and nuance seems to be lost here.
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by otterley 6mo ago
You’re missing the point: a doctor doesn’t diagnose and practice medicine on a patient he hasn’t thoroughly evaluated himself. This is the sort of wisdom that a staff engineer and CTO is expected to have earned.
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by otterley 6mo ago
> You could argue the scales are different, but computers are also faster now. Scale is everything and a faster computer doesn’t always help. Vertical scaling has limits, and complex distributed systems are complex. Since you seem to p
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by otterley 6mo ago
I’ve worked at some very well-endowed organizations. Having money is no guarantee of a particular outcome. There is a lot of money chasing a limited supply of talent. Moreover, distributed systems that were built long ago with certain assum
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by otterley 6mo ago
What you said came across as an adverse judgment of their skill and talent. Is that not what you meant?
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by otterley 6mo ago
Would you consider telling this to the people working at GitHub directly? I’m sure they’d appreciate your evaluation of their skills and talent.
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by otterley 6mo ago
You don’t know that it was “their mistake.” Unless you’ve personally successfully scaled a suite of nontrivial services equivalent to GitHub’s to accommodate an unexpected 14x increase in traffic, you respectfully have no basis for such an
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by otterley 6mo ago
Let me ask the question in reverse: what do you have against them such that the fellow human beings struggling to maintain their operations don’t deserve even a modicum of kindness, respect, and good will? Are you unable to separate the bus
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by otterley 6mo ago
My company's cage was the unfortunate neighbor of Google's cage at Exodus SC3 in Santa Clara. Even then, Google's compute density was much higher than industry standards. They didn't rack-mount their servers; they basica
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by otterley 6mo ago
Sure they can. But they have to refund your money.
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by otterley 6mo ago
Last I heard, the money is being refunded.
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by otterley 6mo ago
I agree that their support is abysmal, and that is intentional. It's unfortunate that the greater market doesn't seem to care that much right now.
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by otterley 6mo ago
There are many possible explanations for this outcome to have occurred other than malice. If you're an engineer by trade, consider how many bugs you've been responsible for over the course of your career that you didn't inten
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by otterley 6mo ago
I don't quibble with your wanting to make money, but you also need to invest some resources on fact-checking, proofreading, and editing your work. You can hire technical writers and marketing copy editors on an hourly basis as needed.
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by otterley 6mo ago
s/segway/segue/
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by otterley 6mo ago
That question is discussed in the article. “Retaining the best workers is especially crucial in an area like photolithography, where a huge amount of tacit knowledge is used to assemble its machines. An ASML engineer once told He Rongming,
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by otterley 6mo ago
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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by otterley 6mo ago
IAAL (but this is not legal advice). That sounds like a nice idea in theory, but: 1/the mistake has been undone, and 2/damages are likely to be minimal. At this point, getting a lawyer involved is going to be a lot of cost without
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by otterley 6mo ago
They might want to perform some due diligence on which company to switch to, and build and test a migration plan before migrating. This incident didn't happen that long ago.
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by otterley 6mo ago
"You get what you pay for" has been true ever since capitalism was invented. Whether it be the "get a registered trademark" route or the "pay more for a competent domain registrar" route, you pay either way.
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by otterley 6mo ago
The way it's worded comes across that way.
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by otterley 6mo ago
To be fair, probably most of us here on HN write software to put food on the table. Don’t pooh-pooh our careers.
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by otterley 6mo ago
This looks interesting at first blush. My only feedback so far is that a lot of the documentation, though thorough and useful, looks clearly AI-written. That's not bad in and of itself, but it could be more concise. I especially love t
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by otterley 6mo ago
I agree with most of your comment except for this one: > Air travel is not only the fastest form of travel in common use, it's also one of the most efficient, due to the thin air at cruising altitudes While airplanes are slightly mo
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by otterley 6mo ago
> after retiring he behaved quite decently in comparison with other similarly rich people. Well, except for that whole Jeffrey Epstein thing: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/gates-f...
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by otterley 6mo ago
> judging by the comments everyone here seems to love China It is possible both to be impressed by China's accomplishments over the past 30 years while remaining critical about its imperfections (and America's as well). It&#x27

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