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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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Re: AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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Post by SanjayMehta »

speeder wrote: post #164
robotnikman wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a story behind this oddly specific comment?

Not op but I saw this happen kinda maliciously... Company was founded by "visionary" CEO that is an sculptor and doesn't understand tech. Most crucial employee is young guy hired right out of college. Company now has 50+ developers, but the critical software is still made by that guy several years later. Critical guy still get recent graduate salary, notices he is actually the most important person in the company, an…

Was this company doing voice recognition for IVR systems, like 25 years ago?

Re: AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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CRConrad wrote: post #165
Dylan16807 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I'm just really wondering what the odds are. In particular for code that made it onto git.

> In particular for code that made it onto git. By “onto git”, do you mean “onto GitHub”? I really wish people would stop conflating the two. In fact, I can't tell whether this confusion is just another symptom of, or a (major?) part of the reason for, why we're in the mess we're in.

I do not mean that, and I was not conflating anything.

Just making and committing to a repo at all is a step that implies a certain level of caretaking.

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