Trying to care… trying to care… trying to care… NOPE

I love this site and I could care less either way, just making note that the front page of the site seems to always be full of vulgarity.

Mike Yahoo always have those wierd Hack award everywhere

Mike, I dunno wanna bother your personal live, but how come you moved to Oregon, tired of silicon alley?

seattle. different state entirely. thanks for not bothering my personal life though. appreciate that.

that was yahoo, not us.

Getting an award to break the app you helped to build. Yahoo is a fun company.

I once broke flickr back in the early days. I tried to hack the “everyone’s photos” page to try to find photo #1 by changing the URL. It was trying to go back a couple hundred thousand pages or something.

http://www.flickr.com/photos

Immediately after, flickr was down all night until the morning.

the domain is mine. we’ve been ‘awarding’ this since 2006 when an engineer deleted several petabytes of photos, but the name and domain are only from 2009.

the award is given for not just the longest unplanned downtime (although that factors heavily), but for the mechanics of the mistake (the dumber the better).

I think this sums up how Flickr feels about its customers perfectly – “lets give an award to whoever can break the site best!”

Perhaps they should also start another award for the customer who’s had to rejoin Flickr the most number of times due to Flickr staff nuking their account without warning or due cause.

I suspect shaming engineers who make mistakes isn’t to encourage them to make worse ones.

This type of award is standard in lots of companies – big corporates, small corporates, startups, etc. People make mistakes and this type of “award” is something that devs don’t want to get.

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in a company i worked for there was a teddy bear that sat at your desk for a month if you broke the software build the most in that month.

it was really just a name and shame – better than a kick up the ass or a gulder from a manager!

I’m waiting for Thomas Hawk to show up with his diatribe…

that’s absolutely hilarious. i’d like to hear the story of the award’s namesake.

Try paying a little more attention to the picture.

@Nick P – you should get the ID-10-T award for best comment that fails to grasp the point of the sarcastic award.

There seems to be a lot of 2010 left.

Silicon alley, New York City?

I dunno wanno no if words sense they make in my live and yor lives to live.

Its great how companies are not stuck up and are rewarding their employees to break the rules a little bit. This article reminds me of that: http://bit.ly/amcqhh

agree.

Good thing for these comments, because the “story” itself didn’t explain at all what this was about.

Nice writing, dude.