Count to ten when a plane goes down
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Count to ten when a plane goes down
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#2Reset all computers in the embassy with F7? No warning prompt?
Fire the idiot who wrote that function.
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#3I disagree that it was appropriate that you were fired, but interesting story all about.
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#4The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
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#5The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
> In what world
Japan, I guess? I've never been there but the story was consistent with my impression of their work culture.
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#6I often suspect that most of the work involved in keeping a power hierarchy going, is involved with trying to pretend that this kind of shit doesn't happen all the time.
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#7The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
He was probably fired because they realized they couldn't put a summer intern in control of such a critical system. I would make the same call.
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#8Thanks for posting this. I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8062683 yesterday but yours appears to be the direct link to the author's blog, which I had missed.
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#9The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.
He was probably fired because they realized they couldn't put a summer intern in control of such a critical system. I would make the same call.
If you go with this line of reasoning, whoever put him in that position should also be fired, and their boss should be fired for putting someone in charge who made such a poor decision in the first place.
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