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What was the test to determine the dataloss?
Informal. My last upvote was pretty close to when HN went down, so I expected my karma to go down, but it didn't. Also I remember the "Why we're going with Rails" story on the front page from before it went down.
While the naysayers will say, "Why isn't this in the cloud?," I think the response times and uptime of hackernews is really impressive. If anyone has a write-up of the infrastructure that runs HN, I would be interested. Maybe startups really can be run off of a rasberry pi
I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN. Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.
Makes you appreciate the noprocrast mode feature.
Everyone, you're welcome. My last F5 must've jogged it loose finally.
I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN. Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.
Makes you appreciate the noprocrast mode feature.
... I might have been more productive than usual today.
Did global productivity go up today, or were we all hopelessly clicking refresh to see if HN was back up?
I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN. Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.
noprocrast exists for a reason :)