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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by coffeemug »

Hope everyone has a healthy, rewarding and prosperous year. Special thanks to @dang and team for keeping this community a great place everyone wants to come back to. I love coming back here every day.

Merry Christmas to all!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by reb »

Merry Christmas, everyone! Continually grateful for this community: stumbling into it as a teenager changed my life and I never get tired of spinning out about new tech big and small with the folks here. Stay safe, everybody

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by kelnos »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #11
tekacs wrote: post #6

Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps: https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server) https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly) https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)

Restart?! ouch

I feel like this obsession with zero downtime has gotten a bit silly. Sure, for some things it's damn near required (though I imagine that's fewer things than most people think), but it 100% does not matter even a little bit if HN is unavailable for 10 seconds or so.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by properbrew »

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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by uyzstvqs »

basilikum wrote: post #20
jagged-chisel wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Restart?! ouch

HN is a pretty simple, efficient monolithic web application. Some updates might need a restart. It's OK for some web requests to fail during that time. HN isn't life critical with sixtuple nine uptime requirements.

It could probably be done with a simple if statement, but I'm guessing that dang enjoys the tradition of doing it manually every year.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by elemdos »

sneak wrote: post #42
judah wrote: post #23

Merry Christmas! "An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”…

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To some it is, to some it isn’t. Regardless, nonexlusivity has always been built into its core.
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