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Sometimes it's little freedoms like that that help you get through your workday. Sitting logged in to server00831 from laptop firstlastname2016 all days is jus

by avian 5y ago

Sometimes it's little freedoms like that that help you get through your workday. Sitting logged in to server00831 from laptop firstlastname2016 all days is just soulcrushing.

knorker 5y ago
It's one thing when you have pets, another when you have cattle. A traceroute showing herodotus? Magellanic? Jesus fucking christ I can't even spell that into google to find out if it's a router or a firewall. I've worked at places like that and I can't figure out if the other people in the company hate each other, are super elitist (oh, you don't know who herodotus was? Did you even take ancient greek history at your public school?), or are some sort of double agent productivity saboteur. I find it extremely disrespectful to get in the way of other people getting shit done, and some of these names are about as funny as wiping a colleague's hard drive (containing all their work in progress) for fun. Don't make me spell empedokles when everything's on fire at 4am. That's insanely disrespectful. You have three servers? Go nuts. You have at least 831 (per your example)? A thousand servers and your servers are still pets? I'd request a mandate to fix what is clearly broken culture and infrastructure, or quit. At 4am the funny name is a joke at your expense, and shows that whoever named this machine does not respect you.
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  You can go on the other end of the extreme with this. One dude we hired came in and started immediately yelling about the naming convention of 3 machines. How unprofessional it was. This was when renaming a machine was kind of a pain, and reinstalling took 2-3 hours (plus patches). "you want it fixed you reinstall them" (they were never fixed). We were naming them after cartoon characters. He refused to install any machines himself and would regularly rename half the vars in a project because 'they did not feel right'. One time he spent 2 hours ranting about a comment in the code that was a movie quote that fit what was going on. The next box he wanted but would not install himself was named Kyle after the whiny char from south park. When it came time to scale to about 200 machines I chose a convention that made sense (something like city-rack-machinetype-number) and could help someone find the box quickly. He still did not like it and wanted to still rename them all.

by avian 5y ago

Sometimes it's little freedoms like that that help you get through your workday. Sitting logged in to server00831 from laptop firstlastname2016 all days is just soulcrushing.

knorker 5y ago

It's one thing when you have pets, another when you have cattle. A traceroute showing herodotus? Magellanic? Jesus fucking christ I can't even spell that into google to find out if it's a router or a firewall. I've worked at places like that and I can't figure out if the other people in the company hate each other, are super elitist (oh, you don't know who herodotus was? Did you even take ancient greek history at your public school?), or are some sort of double agent productivity saboteur. I find it extremely disrespectful to get in the way of other people getting shit done, and some of these names are about as funny as wiping a colleague's hard drive (containing all their work in progress) for fun. Don't make me spell empedokles when everything's on fire at 4am. That's insanely disrespectful. You have three servers? Go nuts. You have at least 831 (per your example)? A thousand servers and your servers are still pets? I'd request a mandate to fix what is clearly broken culture and infrastructure, or quit. At 4am the funny name is a joke at your expense, and shows that whoever named this machine does not respect you.

sumtechguy 5y ago
You can go on the other end of the extreme with this. One dude we hired came in and started immediately yelling about the naming convention of 3 machines. How unprofessional it was. This was when renaming a machine was kind of a pain, and reinstalling took 2-3 hours (plus patches). "you want it fixed you reinstall them" (they were never fixed). We were naming them after cartoon characters. He refused to install any machines himself and would regularly rename half the vars in a project because 'they did not feel right'. One time he spent 2 hours ranting about a comment in the code that was a movie quote that fit what was going on. The next box he wanted but would not install himself was named Kyle after the whiny char from south park. When it came time to scale to about 200 machines I chose a convention that made sense (something like city-rack-machinetype-number) and could help someone find the box quickly. He still did not like it and wanted to still rename them all.