Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday shutdown benefit

Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by throwawaysleep on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:39PM (#32175490)

> Most software can run in maintenance mode with minimal staff and no feature growth.

If it is well built, sure. At one of my jobs, one of the firehoses requires a messy restart every few days as it was left to decay and now everything is out of date.

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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by vineyardmike on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:11AM (#32175698)

Yea but an intern could keep that going for a few months if they had to, you don’t need senior engineers.

The point is that stagnation/KTLO is way easier than expansion and needs way less talent.

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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by janosdebugs on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:47AM (#32175878)

Typically, not really. If a software is badly built, it isn't as simple as following a set of well-described instructions. Random stuff breaks all the time due to hidden dependencies to other servicea, and debugging it is definitely not a job to be entrusted to an intern. If it was easy to restart, you could write a cron job for it.

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