Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you face as a developer?

Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you face as a devel... by xstartup on Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:12AM (#16611077)

1. Not being able to cover all corner cases. Didn't implement auth on Mongo, some evil bot deleted the database. Forgot to set the timeout on HTTP client, ending up with resource leak (goroutine) and downtime. Integrating a lot of services, often I miss so obvious thing which results in service going down.

2. People with expertise in some key areas not willing to help with your seemingly easy questions.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you face as a devel... by iggg on Sunday March 18, 2018 @12:54PM (#16612837)

You had your database open to the internet and a bot deleted it? Did you get any emails from someone trying to sell your deleted database back to you?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you face as a devel... by xstartup on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:24AM (#16617597)

Yes, I received bitcoin request. I asked them to confirm their bitcoin address to which they never responded! So, i figured, it's not worth paying.

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