Hacker rewrote complex backend with Postgres and cron, CEO fired 40% of devs

theolognion.com

20 points·samokhvalov··12 comments

Disclaimer: I've posted it here – but honestly, now I'm trying to find any info about that startup and cannot find it.

It's the first time I'm having some doubts if a news about Postgres is true. Would be good to have some sort of labels/tags "unverified" for such news.

If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know.

Check the domain name of the website.

I think you fell for satire. Another one of their articles: https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-invents-non-moving-ca...

Pretty good satire too I must say.

Obviously I did

Thank you for posting this. The site has some really good gems. As an avid Onion reader, this site is great.

Well now I am going to go read it! Has to be good, right?

Shit happens, right? No worries.

It might be satire, but it hits way to close to the mark. I've worked on so many simple applications with layers and layers of cruft that really could be simplified to postgres, cron and a couple of cgi scripts.

The next article is “expert says IoT devices safe because they barely work anyway”

https://www.theolognion.com/expert-says-iot-and-smart-home-d...

“The olognion” is a satirical tech news site. Basically a more tech oriented “the onion”. Some of their articles are really fun. Check out their about page and patreon as well.

Thanks. Decided to hide it here.

On one hand, it would be good and funny to be on the 1st page with this (obviously, it was rising fast).

On another – who knows, how many people (I guess, non Enslish speakers) might do the same mistake as I did :)

Unreal what you can achieve with PG power!

Scary.

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