Item — HN Reader

> However, when something I care about crashes and burns once in a blue moon, I make sure to put the fire out, at least to make it survive till regular hours.

You are free what you choose to do with your personal life.

Meanwhile, it is pretty obvious that it's pointless to demand or expect personal sacrifice to maintain unrealistic levels of high-availability in services that are far from critical. I mean, do you honestly believe that these messages you and I are writing are so important to get out that someone must sacrifice their personal time to ensure it is served to the world in this very instant instead of, say, 3 or 6 or 13 hours? Absurd.

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It looks like I failed to convey what I've tried to say in the first comment. Let me reiterate one more time.

    - I believe dang sees HN as his baby, so *voluntarily* monitors it as a critical infrastructure *for him*.
    - I personally like this kind of commitment from people who like their job, however *I don't expect or demand it in any way*.
    - I also hope that attention doesn't affect his life. *Especially negatively and/or in a crippling way*.

I don't care whether this site is down for 6 seconds or 6 hours. I just wanted to commend him for liking what he's doing this much. I demand nothing from any service provider I use. Let it be a small, one person operation or dang or Amazon/Google.

I also keep servers up in my daily job, and some are more important than others, but none of them requires me to wake up 5AM to solve a problem (by design). So I don't demand anything from others something which I won't do.

As long as nobody is dying, nobody should stop, drop, and work on something else regardless of time, date and location.