Tell HN: Merry Christmas • Hacker News Board

I will admit that I paused after typing that, but then I figured, as another commenter mentioned, that with PagerDuty being popular, it wasn't too much of a stretch.

Admittedly, I'm someone who has carried an honest-to-god pager, the "start the number with 911 if it's an emergency" sort of 10 digit segmented LCD ones. Even remember enjoying the freedom of getting upgraded to one of the national ones when traveling!

Though I'm currently thinking about switching from PagerDuty to ntfy.sh/pushover, as it's really hard to justify almost $50/mo per person with Pager Duty for the use my small team makes of it.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by djohnston » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 1:39 PM UTC

Merry Christmas yall, here's hoping that the HN crowd has an above average 2024.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by kccqzy » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 1:39 PM UTC

gzer0 wrote: post #81

There have been many, many variables in my life. And throughout all of that chaos, the one constant that remains is HN. I appreciate each and everyone single one of you who make this site what it is. Merry Christmas and cheers!

Same! I can't believe I've had my HN account since 2014. Almost ten years!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by TriangleEdge » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

Merry Christmas all <3

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Post by GVRV » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 1:55 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #13

May your pagers be silent.

I work for a globally remote organisation, so I voluntarily took the on-call rota for the last week of the year. This way, my colleagues can enjoy Xmas with their families without any pager anxiety, and they made sure I could have the same experience this past month over Diwali ;)

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Post by nrb » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

kyriakos wrote: post #45

locusofself wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how many companies still use "pagers" aka "beepers", but this person is talking about the device you carry that would alert you when there is a problem with one of your systems. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=593535494&q=pager&tbm=...

Yes I know what a pager is but was surprised the word is still in use.

I think they're still prevalent in hospitals due to their reliability and higher connectivity.

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Post by bradley_taunt » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

Merry Christmas to a wonderful community!