News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday shutdown benefit. Parent comment

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]