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Good work. It's fun and has clean code too!

>"This is a great example where it is okay to lose a message"

It's not, if a client is in trail with your service and they miss a message you risk losing that client. It's only "Okay" to not deliver on non-client facing services. Anything else is an unmeasurable risk

It’s not an unmeasurable risk to not tell someone their food is ready.

And that kind of absolutism in technology is the source of a common failure to meaningfully deal with failure modes of your technology.

Losing one in a billion messages telling someone their food is ready can be offset by $100 in marketing budget to buy that person a very nice meal in compensation. We know how to deal with hospitality failures like that, it’s not actually complicated.

Spending the effort to reduce the failure below that is not worth the cost, which is certainly more than $100. There’s almost certainly better usages for those developer resources.

I suppose one can measure the risk of losing messages - I’m not suggesting that it’s always possible, but calling it an unmeasurable risk is probably not true

> It's only "Okay" to not deliver on non-client facing services. Anything else is an unmeasurable risk

I disagree. The ability to handle data loss comes from the nature of the data, not whether it is client-facing or not. Banking transactions can almost never handle message loss, whether it is client-facing or not. On the other hand, a meal notification service could drop one or two messages and still work properly.

Unfortunately the media makes aggressive predictions either to get a point across or for ratings but it is happening.

Miami is investing in mediating current and future floods. I feel the fact that flood prevention is a significant part of your budget and planning that says something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1dnlHPzhQA

Miami has an erosion problem.

Had only they charged a penny for your thoughts

That would have reduced the traffic [0] significantly.

[0] and valuation as a side-effect.

Came here to see all the reasons should be converted to A SaaS Based solution, was not disappointed.

I've seen questions about - Required tech specs - Potential upgrades - Trial periods - Varying pricing schemes - General support

These things are handled differently with SaaS. Its easier to address with continued income too.

Ha. Yep, I knew that was coming too. They are definitely things I've thought about. I wrote about my thoughts a couple of years ago. You can check it out here: http://www.duetapp.com/blog/is-saas-the-only-business-model-...

But I like the idea of a 1-click Digital Ocean install. I'm going to work on that asap

100 times on the board http://bit.ly/1RzOIK2

I think have seen this used for laws and law changes. Im surprised it has not been massively adopted

"Though NASA found a younger engineer who was brought on to work with Zottarelli for a year and eventually replace him, Dodd said it's an impossible task. No one will replace him,' Dodd said."

That's a lifetime of job security

> That's a lifetime of job security

Maybe only 10 years?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-far-can-voy...