A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.
And not a lawsuit? Cause I've read more about that kind of reaction than of job offers. Though I guess lawsuits are more likely to be controversial and talked about.
I mean, with Cloudflare's recent (lack of) uptime, I would argue there's a degree of crashflation happening such that the prestige is less in doing so. I mean nowadays if a lawnmower drives by cloudflare and backfires that's enough to collapse the whole damn thing
Or were you purposefully going out of your way to perpetrate performative ignorance and transphobic bullying, just to let everyone know that you're a bigoted transphobic asshole?
I don't buy that it was an innocent mistake, given the context of the rest of the discussion, and your pretending to know her family better than the poster you were replying to and everyone else in the discussion, falsely denying her credit for her own work. Do you really think dang made the Hacker News header black because he and everyone else was confused and you were right?
Do you like to show up at funerals of people you don't know, just to interrupt the eulogy with insults, stuff pennies up your ass (as you claim to do), then shit and piss all over the coffin in front of their family and friends?
How long did you have to wait until she died before you had the courage to deadname, misgender, and punch down at her in a memorial, out of hate and cowardice and a perverse desire to show everyone what kind of a person you really are?
Next time, can you at least wait until after the funeral before committing your public abuse?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975524
amypetrik8 13 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Rebecca Heineman has died
The work you're outlining here is was performed by "Bill Heineman" - maybe you are mixing up Bill with his sister Rebecca?!?
"A specific sequence of customer configuration changes, performed across two different control plane build versions, resulted in incompatible customer configuration metadata being generated. These customer configuration changes themselves were valid and non-malicious – however they produced metadata that, when deployed to edge site servers, exposed a latent bug in the data plane. This incompatibility triggered a crash during asynchronous processing within the data plane service. This defect escaped detection due to a gap in our pre-production validation, since not all features are validated across different control plane build versions."
I'd love to know more about what those specific circumstances were!
But on a personal level, this is like ordering something at a restaurant and the cook burning the kitchen because they forgot to take out your pizza out of the oven or something.
I would be telling it to everyone over beers (but not my boss).
What about all the other systems and people suffering elsewhere in the World?
Even still, you should have policies in place to mitigate such eventualities, that way you can focus the incompetence into systematic issues instead. The larger the company, the less acceptable these failures become. Lessons learned is a better excuse for a shake and break startup than an established player that can pay to be secure.
At some point, the finger has to be pointed. Personally, I don't dread it pointing elsewhere. Just means I've done my due D and C.
The hilarious part of the whole story is that the same PMs and product managers were (and I cannot overemphasize this enough) absolutely militant orthodox agile practitioners with jira.
Perfect.
Maybe "Erleichterung" (relief)? But as a German "Schadenserleichterung" (also: notice the "s" between both compound word parts) rather sounds like a reduction of damage (since "Erleichterung" also means mitigation or alleviation).
You gain relief, but you don't exactly derive pleasure as it's someone you know that's getting the ass end of the deal
You know how you measure eternity?
When you finish learning German.
When aliens study humans from this period, their book of fairy tales will include several where a terrible evil was triggered by a config push.