Lighten up, he just posted a suggestion and request that maybe Github being down isn't something that people need to rush here to post the minute a web request times out. If he succeeds in lowering the rate of people posting this useless information than it's a net win.
I don't think it would be a net win, though. Neither you nor OP has established that 30-40 minutes is a better threshold for when a story is made about GitHub being down than what it currently is (apparently 5-10 minutes when there aren't a lot of other good stories to compete with on HN). You and OP might prefer it, but you're just a couple of data points.
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Lighten up, he just posted a suggestion and request that maybe Github being down isn't something that people need to rush here to post the minute a web request times out. If he succeeds in lowering the rate of people posting this useless information than it's a net win.
I don't think it would be a net win, though. Neither you nor OP has established that 30-40 minutes is a better threshold for when a story is made about GitHub being down than what it currently is (apparently 5-10 minutes when there aren't a lot of other good stories to compete with on HN). You and OP might prefer it, but you're just a couple of data points.