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prawks on Feb 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why HN was down

> I've always found it's a good idea to not deviate.

> you run into potential problems that you hadn't anticipated.

The second statement is no reason to live by the first. In fact, I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice by staying so comfortable. Being comfortable with the unanticipated, however, is a powerful quality to have.

rwallace on Feb 19, 2013 [–]

That's fine, but try to become comfortable with the unanticipated on a test server, not the production server.

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