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He has one of the most difficult, stressful jobs scaling one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world.

And I'm sure the bitching and moaning whenever there's downtime doesn't help.

Under-funded, over-loaded, filled with hyper-critical users and entire armies of abusers. Sounds like a great job!

Anyone who's stuck that out for years is a hero.

Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit.

To be honest, none of those things by themselves really bothered me. But I supposed the sum total of it always dragged on my subconscience.

>Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit.

How does a cape not fit??

The thing that goes around the neck was too small. :) It was a kids cape.

Cheers jedberg. For the fish and all that.