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throwaway2037yesterday at 3:36 PM1 replyview on HN

    > an insanely unreliable network (~95% uptime)
This is wild! Can you explain more?

Did you ever blog about this program? It sounds very interesting, and there is no job interview on HN!


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georgeburdellyesterday at 6:22 PM

Lots of things are baked into that 95% number. Sometimes the power would go out. Data recipients were careless about checking whether their computers were powered on and had a static IP assigned, but I’d certainly hear about it if they didn’t get their data. Network engineers would futz with settings and do poorly announced infrastructure upgrades. Rather than try to fix all these issues, I just wrote the code assuming we were working from a 3rd world country.