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Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?
- lisper 5y agoI'm not sure which is funnier, the original ad, or the mental image conjured up in my mind by the phrase "cloud-to-butt plugin" before I figured out what was actually going on here.
- pnevares 5y agoFor background info on the referenced Chrome extension: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22cloud+to+butt%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22cloud+to+butt%22
- unixhero 5y agoThank you, finally someone with butt-less facts in this clown driven thread
- extrememacaroni 5y agoYou want me to build what what in the butt??
- colanderman 5y ago"Rock-solid components".
- mkoryak 5y agoall kinds of shit
- QuinnyPig 5y agoIt's fairly likely that my Twitter thread last month (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1438265897093763074 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1438265897093763074) is indirectly responsible for this.
- reilly3000 5y agoDo you think you could cost-optimize my BBL?
- QuinnyPig 5y ago“I can cost-optimize anything with nipples.”
- reilly3000 5y ago:.) There has to be an antigravitron joke in there somewhere.
- hippyup 5y agoLol serves them right for not reading far enough to your moral of the story.
- unixhero 5y agoThis is god damn hillarious. I am laughing in tears while alone on the train here, people are looking at me as if I'm a wierdo. "The moral of the story is that no matter how hilarious you many find them, don’t install extensions that screw with text replacement in browsers. It’s just not worth it." Bahahahahahahahaha
- ccn0p 5y agothanks hacker news. today I learned that "people who cannot be reached for comment" are "guilty and everyone knows it". https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions/jkgogmboalmaijfgfhfepckdgjeopfhk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions...
- NotChina 5y agohttps://github.com/RainofTerra/CancelCancelCulture/blob/master/Source/content_script.js https://github.com/RainofTerra/CancelCancelCulture/blob/mast... This from the person recently released by Netflix, on bad behavior.
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- reidjs 5y agoGreat catch, that's the oldest prank in the book, but still one of the funniest.
- AdmiralAsshat 5y agoSurely it can't be that old, given that the Cloud to Butt Plus extension only goes back to 2014: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus/apmlngnhgbnjpajelfkmabhkfapgnoai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
- GauntletWizard 5y agoSure, but the problem goes back far earlier than that - Automated text replacement is a clbuttic mistake[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- floatboth 5y agoPlus implies it's not the original. The original started in 2013: https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt/commit/c518a13178b5dba75c6b3e663a1c2c6b87d28d6a https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt/commit/c518a1317...
- reidjs 5y agoYeah I definitely exaggerated haha. I think the oldest may be taking a screenshot of their desktop background and maximizing it, so they click around helplessly. Does anyone know a prank older than that?
- jtvjan 5y agoProbably. I used that add-on a while ago, and it also modifies your form submissions. Learnt that the hard way.
- sjansen 5y agoOne of our lead developers used it at the height of cloud hype. You could always tell which pages of our internal wiki he had edited recently. Amusing at first, but I got tired of it much faster than he did.
- kirubakaran 5y agoYou just need a butt-to-cloud extension to counter that.
- easton 5y agoHere's a fork that fixes that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-redux/mghonbmkhoeammefiikcjdjaikniefnk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-redu...
- jrochkind1 5y agoWow, Google won't let me look at that without giving them a credit card number or uploading a copy of state ID. To prove I'm old enough to to responsibly handle the word 'butt'. Because if you can get your hands on a credit card number, that proves it.
- lxe 5y agoI forget I have it enabled sometimes. It's a welcome reprieve from the seriousness of daily work stuff when I catch the plugin do it's thing. How would this make it into a posting though? Was it a copy-from-browser and paste-into-tool type of a gaffe?
- easton 5y ago<textarea> and <input> are also affected by the extension, so if they saved the page and went back to it later, the instances of cloud inside the box would've been replaced with butt.
- Liquix 5y agoCloud-to-butt implemented via editing live TCP streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI&t=1210s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI&t=1210s
- spudlyo 5y agoI can only imagine the terrible feeling in the pit of someone's stomach today when they realized that the plugin modifies form submissions, or they cut and pasted from a page that was rendered with the help of the plugin. The good news is years from now they'll have a great story to tell at parties.
- mgraczyk 5y agoAlso posted to linkedin, not yet corrected https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-development-engineer-at-amazon-2750122957 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-development-engi...
- badwolf 5y agoIncredible.
- colanderman 5y agoArchive link for when it's gone: http://web.archive.org/web/20211014210934/https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-development-engineer-at-amazon-2750122957 http://web.archive.org/web/20211014210934/https://www.linked...
- duskwuff 5y agoThe New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your “Millennials to Snake People” extension when copying and pasting.) -- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/07dc-tradefacts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/07dc-tradefac...
- airstrike 5y agoSo did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054
- willcipriano 5y agoCan't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoWe live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.
- BTCOG 5y agoI just assumed that people are installing said plugin on their machines as a prank when they walk away from the machine and leave it unlocked.
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- Minor49er 5y agoThis takes the term "backend engineer" to a whole new level
- _jal 5y agoIn a job a long time ago, I was on a conference call in which a sales guy kept repeatedly emphasizing the value and importance of their "robust, scalable backend". Eventually, we had to mute the phone, people around the table couldn't keep from laughing.
- chestervonwinch 5y agoOur elastic backend effortlessly scales with ingestion!
- i1856511 5y agoNow THAT's an enterprise solution!
- obedm 5y agoThank you for bringing joy to my evening. This was hilarious
- mandeepj 5y agoOMG! I'm in my early 40s and I've never thought about 'backend' in this way, until now. And, I can't undo it :-). Now, I'm thinking - do I have lack of humor or imagination? :-)
- singingfish 5y agoI use "arse" rather than "butt" due to not being american. After extensive discussion at my last workplace we configured the word replacer browser plugin to replace "cloud" with "arse", enterprise with "garbage" and architect with "clown". It makes marketing and technical docs a much easier read.
- handrous 5y ago"Our senior clown has come up with an arse-based solution, to meet our garbage-tier requirements" Yeah, that seems about right.
- philwelch 5y agoI love the way “cloud architect” becomes “arse clown”.
- floatboth 5y agoI thought "arse" is the UK alternative to "ass", not "butt"?
- jrochkind1 5y agouh....
- James-Livesey 5y agoAm from the UK; can confirm that arse = butt ≠ ass (aka donkey)
- floatboth 5y agoI mean, "arse" would be used where Americans usually say "ass", to mean "butt". But not instead of saying "butt", right?
- ushakov 5y agoTry reading this article with the plugin enabled, i guarantee a lot of fun https://uk.pcmag.com/networking-communications-software/16824/what-is-cloud-computing https://uk.pcmag.com/networking-communications-software/1682...
- benbristow 5y ago> What is my butt? Where is my butt? Are we in my butt right now? These are all questions you've probably heard or even asked yourself. The term "butt computing" is everywhere. Lots of butt fun to be had here haha
- mkoryak 5y agoI used to work across the hall from a startup called CloudHealth... just saying
- khazhoux 5y agoI think this is the first time I've seen a job posting which instead gets someone fired.
- isatty 5y agoFired? This is instant, free and effective publicity for a faceless mega corp. They’ll take it.
- beeboop 5y agoAmazon leadership has zero sense of humor. I say this as someone who works with them professionally frequently. It's amazing the level of fear they instill throughout the whole organization
- chickenpotpie 5y agoThe most terrifying email to get was "Jeff has visibility into this"
- JasonFruit 5y agoIt's also the most aggravating circumlocution I've ever read.
- asdasdasd22231 5y agoJeff is watching.
- tremon 5y agoJeff sees all and His retribution shall be swift?
- falcojr 5y agoI once worked for a company with a name like CompanyCloud and wound up sending an email to a customer saying I worked for CompanyButt. That was an embarrassing day.
- erdo 5y agoThat reminds me of when I was at university in the 90s, a favourite trick was to set MSWord's auto correct on the communal computers to change the word "the" to "wanker". People would arrive with their floppy disks, print out their assignments ready to hand in and then notice (or fail to notice) a page full of wankers. Hilarity ensued (...mostly)
- the_hoser 5y agoI have a funny story about this plugin. The team I was working on was developing a new product with the word 'cloud' in the name. We were deploying database changes to facilitate the new product. This was a long time ago, and the organization still deployed things by hand, so there was no tooling for us to automate the deployment. Part of the deployment process involved pasting some SQL to create the tables and populate the initial data into a JIRA ticket for an administrator to run in production. Said administrator was a fan of the cloud-to-butt plugin, and dutifully copied and pasted the SQL that they saw, like we instructed. When our code failed, an inspection of the production database revealed the culprit. Fortunately, 'cloud' and 'butt' are close to each other, alphabetically, so we didn't need to search very long. We never let that admin live that down.
- gdsdfe 5y agoA butt that requires reinventing database systems? ... Yeah I wanna see that haha
- mikl 5y agoClbuttic mistake.
- literallyaduck 5y agoMaybe they shouldn't have allowed plugin installation. Seems like a security risk.
- drited 5y agoYeah they're almost inviting a breach: >>Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?
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- jancsika 5y agoJust imagine if there was an equally popular extension to translate "butt" back to "cloud." You could blow stacks of managers with infinite loops that Abbott and Costello-level rhetoric: Manager One: The posting is littered with references to "my butt." This is unacceptable. Manager Two: But isn't that's what the position is for? Manager One: Um, NO... this position for development in cloud. The posting keeps referring to "my butt" Manager Two: Naturally. Etc.
- czbond 5y agoReminds me of all those early career programs you write where the disgruntled comments are first curse words, then the output is. Then you forget to remove them when showing people who care.
- fencepost 5y agoI love that "This is a hands on position" that requires deep expertise.
- adrr 5y agoFunny thing is that this job posting is now being distributed everywhere for free.
- chris_wot 5y ago"Come, join us in reinventing database systems for my butt!" Nearly choked on my coffee...
- __MatrixMan__ 5y agoI've been using this plugin for years as a way to say "you left your computer unlocked". I wish there was a way to know if this was a similar case, or if it was installed voluntarily.
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- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoNo matter how sophisticated or "professional" we may think we are, we all giggle like 3rd graders when we see something like this :)
- jamesbvaughan 5y agoTo add to the stories from this plugin: Years ago, I had this installed on the family computer and my sister was writing a school report on weather in Google Docs. The plugin as it existed then did not affect the document as she was editing it, but it _did_ manage to sneak its way in when she printed it out to turn in, without her noticing. Needless to say, her teacher was not amused and I ended up going to see him to explain how that was not her fault.
- qx98j 5y agole so random XD