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by atsaloli
3633 days ago
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About 9 years ago, while working as a system administration consultant, I had a gig to fly a portable hard drive with about 360 GB from LA to St. Louis as part of a migration of a web application. It was faster than the network connections available to my client at the time. I remember calculating the throughput... I asked why don't you just FedEx it? It's too important, the client said, and we know and trust you. It was funny, I had it in a laptop bag, and didn't let go of it except to go through the security scanner... the only thing missing was the handcuff connecting it to my wrist. :) |
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Indeed, getting a trustworthy courier service is so hard that actually sending an in-house employee is worthwhile, even though their hourly rates make this extremely expensive: you are removing tens of abstraction layers, while preserving high degree of control ("Oh, we might have run it over with a truck. And accidentally put it on a plane to New Zealand on hop #3. And they can't seem to find it there.")