Live data from Hacker News

Simple ATM cards being declined

status.simple.com

61–63 of 63 posts

Re: Simple ATM cards being declined

#61
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you especially should be doing at least as good as the established parties do in the reliability department. Easy to say but I think it is unreasonable to expect a company that is couple years old to have as much reliability as ones who have had decades to figure it out. I think the Simple customers have every right be absolutely pissed. For some, they may even realize that the downside of going with Simple isn't jus…

Try explaining how less reliability is acceptable to the guy that is out of gas trying to get home. Payment systems have an impact that is unlike any other system. It's very well possible that lives depend on your system working. You may never know about it but you should definitely build as though they do. You can't build financial software the same way that you build some CRUD site or the latest social fad.

You can't build financial software the same way that you build some CRUD site or the latest social fad.

No one is arguing that you should be able to do that. And it is kind of insulting to imply that that is how the folks at Simple look at development without some source.

Systems break for many reasons, and you can't simply assume the cause to be a social fad attitude of the dev team.

Re: Simple ATM cards being declined

#62
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess what? https://twitter.com/Skroob/status/285932353765908480 https://twitter.com/mrlanphear/status/285916924599205889

This just in: people tweeting also sometimes embellish their situations for dramatic effect! For example, in surrounding tweets @Skroob jokes about paying with Bitcoin, mentions his dining party has other options, and then despite some disappointment concludes with sympathy for @Simplify. He further says that Simple's "company policy of ignoring the s * out of HN, especially during outages" is something that "just ma…

Exactly. No one is denying this isn't a terrible thing. I don't think we have to convince Simple that this can't be happening. And I don't think one major downtime is reason enough to call for their heads as several of the comments imply. At the least let's wait for them to do the detail write up about the outage.
Post reply on HN