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mbac32768 • today at 5:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

My colleague Brett has a Hurricane Sandy story about Jane Street as well

https://x.com/BrettHarrison/status/2117636364304892206


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skorgu • today at 5:58 PM

Sandy was wild. you couldn't get computers for love or money, everything was jammed up. we ended up with whatever hardware configs had been returned and sitting in a dell warehouse just to have enough machines so for a long time after you'd have a rack of the standard build and then a random machine with a fibre channel card.

shocking how much engineering you can get done when the normal process becomes impossible and waiting isn't an option.