Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support by serf on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:00PM (#8007417)

because it's not very common that this community can potentially pitch in to save lives on an immediate basis, and this happens to be one of those occasions.

those relying on the service should not be penalized by the software development practices of the person who wrote it with the best of intentions, and the opportunity existed for that to be avoided via community outreach (and it worked).

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Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support by korzun on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:48PM (#8007564)

Why would anybody in Israel rely on such 'service' when they have fully automated missile detection system that sounds alarms within the region of possible impact.

Not to mention that twitter feed that gets it's news from another web site is a giant waste of time if you are trying to avoid rockets.

It seems to me you drank the kool-aid, without any fact checking.

If you want to do the 'lives' angle, if my life was at risk I would rely on billion dollar missile defense system. Not a delayed Twitter feed.

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Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support by judah on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @10:25PM (#8007791)

Alarm sounding isn't totally reliable. One rocket hit a northern city, Hadera, 60 miles outside of Gaza today. No alarm that instance, I'm told.

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Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support by Blahah on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:55PM (#8007586)

If my life was at risk I'd probably not restrict myself to one source of information about possible sources of impending death.

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Re:Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support by myrdev on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @09:45PM (#8007695)

Given some of the posts elsewhere in the thread, that automated warning system isn't foolproof, so more info is better.

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