Too many great quotes in this essay by Peter Welch . I’ll just pick this one:<\/p>\n
Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There’s a team at a Google office that hasn’t slept in three days. Somewhere there’s a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she’s dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Over-the-top hilariously negative, but you can feel the love through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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