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		krallja on Nov 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you ... > They go down often Isn’t that one of the two main features of the product?

gnulinux on Nov 14, 2018 [–]

"to go down" means "to be in a non-functional state" as in "Facebook went down". Compare to "to go up" like "servers are up" i.e. servers are functioning.

humbledrone on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

I think maybe you didn't get the joke

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