Re:The Servers Are Burning
by xg15 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:18AM
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I still wonder (and hope not) if at some point we will build bridges the way we will build software. "Well yes, occasionally our bridges collapse, but statistically, the number of people that get across the bridge safely vastly outnumbers the amount of people that die in a spontaneous bridge collapse. Also we've gotten really fast at rebuilding them. So we don't see a problem."
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except that OkCupid users won't normally die if the site is down for some hours, the worst thing that could happen is that they leave the platform.
While I despise the practice of cowboy-style software dev, the upside is that you might get an advantage in a really competitive ground