I got work done yadda yadda, but I was also pretty bored when I needed a break. In the long term, if HN disappears, I'll probably find something else. So get your shit together HN and don't die on us again.
I got a ton done on the side project I have been hacking together. It started as a blog post but will end a short book on the Meteor framework. Hopefully finished by the weeks end! I got about 3000 words in while we were down! :)
Edit: It will be totally free and open source, and is being written on a collaborative platform ala git where anyone can add a branch for edits/extra content/suggestions. I don't want to plug it shamelessly, but if you're really interested email me and I will send you a link. It's in my profile.
I realized how compulsively I click on HN. All in all it is not a healthy habit. I ought to give it up or cut down. Before it used to be The Register, Ars Technica and Wired.
So you are saying that sysadmins don't have a life, since an outage of any public-facing sites _that they are responsible for_ usually has a significant impact on their lives.
Sounds like a possible psychological issue. This might lead to a problem for society. We might want to get you some preventive treatment for that before you have a chance of harming someone. Do you think prison might work well here?
Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone.
The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards.
Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.
I visited Hatena Bookmark (somewhere between HN and Reddit in terms of content type and quality, for Japanese links) much more frequently and discovered how much worse (for me) the curation there is (because it's more mainstream than HN).
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Their new layout is all Weboblag 3.0.
What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.
Unless it's StackOverflow, I can't imagine StackOverflow going down.
I assume we were discussing this yesterday, after the last HN restore point?
The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards.
Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.
I kept checking and checking HN over and over again. When I couldn't take it anymore I started to do some actual work.
"I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorrow.