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Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Yardboy

2010-08-19T14:20:24Z

Gack, made me clench just reading it. Testament to your good backup/DR procedures that you were only down 32 mins.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Jim Gay

2010-08-15T17:51:43Z

At least it’s back, thank God.

I once spent hours recovering a backup of our Directory Server after a power outage and only saw 100 records listed in our app. I panicked and started the backup all over again beginning at 1am only to find in the end that the app only displayed 100 of the thousands by default. I did the recovery a second time for no reason.

Comment on 'Fixjour is Awesome' by Queeny Ortigas

2010-08-12T01:56:06Z

As we all know, Fixjour is not well used at present time. it must be advertised and promoted first so that people will gain interest in using this.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Me

2010-08-09T02:50:10Z

Completely agree with the above post. My first impression was that this product looked very promising. The language in the post is completely unprofessional and really does make you look like an idiot. Looking elsewhere for business….

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Kai

2010-08-08T19:53:46Z

As someone checking out one of your software programs (LessTimeSpent), seeing this title of your post linked on your software page is a big turnoff. My initial impression of the software and web site was that it looked very professional, and then I scrolled down to see this post linked to. I don’t really care what you talk like in your personal life, but it’s a poor reflection on the software and the company.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Ruben

2010-08-07T05:51:58Z

Wow. I can imagine how you must have been freaking out. I can totally relate; that’s not a fun feeling. Still, recovery from that in 30 mins is awesome. Some people lose it and can’t think clearly enough when things get stressful, so nice job on the recovery.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Douglas F Shearer

2010-08-06T19:30:23Z

Been there, done that.

Shortly afterwards I found myself researching devops tools like Puppet and Chef. That and testing all changes on a clone have probably saved me from myself a few times now.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by paul

2010-08-06T16:50:08Z

Sounds like a round trip to hell;( U handled it very well, and in MHP does not make u a FI. We all make mistakes sometimes, you’ve handled it smartly and with cool. You did everything right, and put it out for us to learn from it. So here is my daily affirmation: Steven Bristol is a smart and honest guy, who keeps his cool when the sh hits the fan.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Jade Robbins

2010-08-06T15:04:15Z

Shit happens man, good work on being clear and open with people about it.

Now time to figure out why you can’t sleep. . . .

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Dave

2010-08-06T14:58:32Z

I’ve updated a huge customer table and set every zipcode to be the same by missing a where clause. Oracle’s select * as of 15 minutes ago saved me. Lack of sleep was at fault there too.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Teflon Ted

2010-08-06T14:09:26Z

reaching out to rich was a good idea. it’s far too common for developers to try to hide in their shell and try to fix it themselves before somebody notices, and in their panic they make things worse.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Rick DeNatale

2010-08-06T14:00:33Z

Too much head butting with Obie in your past perhaps? <g>

I always try to do ls with the same arguments before, then edit the command from history to change ‘ls’ to ‘rm -rf’ after I’ve confirmed what I’m going to delete, particularly when the path starts with ’/’.

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Eric Anderson

2010-08-06T13:53:08Z

Been there before too. Feel your pain. Luckily you were able to get things back up so fast. Thanks for your transparency.

This is a big reason I want a setup like Heroku to work so bad. The idea of just focusing on my app and not on network admin is so appealing. If only Heroku wasn’t so unstable. It has gotten better over the years but even their own status page details constant failures and I can tell you as a customer of theirs they do not report all their outages on their status page. Anybody know of a alternative that has a similar work flow but better uptime?

Comment on 'Steven Bristol is a Fucking Idiot' by Rich Cavanaugh

2010-08-06T13:37:10Z

No worries, we all do stupid shit every once in a while. I’ve done this and DROP (DATABASE|TABLE) in the wrong place and worse over the years.

It’s how you respond to these situations that matters. 32 minutes down. Sounds like you handled it nicely and you’re transparent about it to boot. Great work.

Comment on '#10 Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups ' by Diabetes log

2010-07-23T20:15:23Z

I agree with most of the list. We’ve taken much the same approach to our application. Over 3000 users (free tho) and growing strongly!