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I always figured that names are good if you treat your servers like pets -- unique, long-lived individuals with personalities and quirks. Otherwise, you use nu
by jeffbarr 16y ago
I always figured that names are good if you treat your servers like pets -- unique, long-lived individuals with personalities and quirks.
Otherwise, you use numbers, and you treat them like farm animals -- anonymous, members of a species, with shorter lives.
You can get attached to pets, but you shouldn't bond to livestock.
- Goladus 16y agoI wouldn't say it's good or bad, it just is. Sometimes being attached to a server can be helpful, but it can also be a hindrance. There's no right or wrong answer.
- eli 16y agoYou also should never have hundreds of pets at once.
- gxti 16y agoLest you become a crazy cat lady. I like this metaphor.