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The term serverless is not a metaphor like your examples, it's a contradiction. Big difference. I feel like understanding the "computer concepts" makes the te
by chrischattin 7y ago
The term serverless is not a metaphor like your examples, it's a contradiction. Big difference. I feel like understanding the "computer concepts" makes the term seem even more absurd.
- scarface74 7y agoIt’s an abstraction - just like every other computer concept.
- wodny 7y agoAn abstraction where "positive" and "negative" mean the same just for safety so they can't be confused with each other.
- scarface74 7y agoYou’ve never worked with C code that had to run on both big endian and little endian systems that had to share a common byte protocol. Where two bytes in the same order can mean something completely different. There are a lot of things “confusing” about computer science when you don’t take the time to learn it.
- wodny 7y agoOn the contrary, I've worked with 8 and {32,64}bit x {LE,BE} chips many times and wrote quite a lot of network code in C. But you're mixing syntax with semantics.
- scarface74 7y agoWhich byte is the high order byte is just as much semantics defined by the chip vendor that would be confusing to the uninitiated as “Serverless” would be to an old school net ops person who doesn’t know anything about cloud computing.
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