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It was slow / having issues as in the afternoon, but my last deployment was 6:59pm CST, and it at least responded at 7:43pm CST with a failed deployment. Between those time blocks the entire thing went down. Sites are up, but you can't authenticate with the CLI tools, or get a log in / dashboard with web.


Radio silence from heroku as far as I can tell...


Do you want zombies, this is how you get zombies... /kidding of course(mostly)!


But, but .. we did that in 1997-2005 for Spanish flu and nothing (?) happened.

https://www.nature.com/articles/437794a

> It is thought to have killed 50 million people, and yet scientists have brought it back to life … Working out how it arose and why it was so deadly could help experts to spot the next pandemic strain and to design appropriate drugs and vaccines in time, they say. But others have raised concerns that the dangers of resurrecting the virus are just too great. One biosecurity expert told Nature that the risk that the recreated strain might escape is so high, it is almost a certainty.

Grave digging: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...


So will you now be a terrible company if you host a summit/expo/large-gathering? If that is the trend it could really bite into some of the economies tied into cities used to hosting events.


I think super fueling a COVID-19 outbreak would bite into the economies a bit more than canceling a few events


If you are a large event, the hope is they purchased a policy for show stoppage events and it covers public health events like this. It won’t make you completely whole but should limit losses on contract commitments to venues, hotels, f&b, etc.


I think so. How many people fall ill as a result of attending any given large conference? Probably hundreds -- but conference organizers have never been considered liable for this. If the coronavirus phenomenon shifts liability in the popular perception, there's no way you can afford the PR risk of hosting a major gathering.


Not to mention, lawsuits and insurance coverage.

You'd be a fool to insure someone against coronavirus-related liability for an upcoming event.


Terrible in terms of consideration.

If you employees caught up by the virus, it will be a huge blow to the company beyond just image.


Maybe not a terrible company, but no single rain droplet thinks they're responsible for the flood


That is great, love it how sometimes things like this are stumbled upon by working outside what you are used to.


I would love to see some pictures.



Seems like they are working with pretty large scale objects


Love the idea (ish) and the form factor, I am a firm believer that a small and thinner (width not depth) form factor will be the future of phones until the next big leap, so a lot like this form factor, but with the ability to throw some LTE hardware in here and make a phone you can slap any pay as you go SIM in, I just wonder why not?

Btw this is not the future: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ezgif-4-fb...


Asking the real questions here.


After sign up the login link you get emailed seems to have an API key in it, but doesn't log you in.


Ah might be an edge case - can you click the login link from the same device & browser you made the account on? i.e. not your phone


We got one of our app taken down and a strike on our account, warning that further strikes are going to mean no more developer account. We wanted to re-upload and try to find what the problem was but with no human contact ever able to be made, we had to settle for not doing the app over losing all of our other ones.


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