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> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? Clown is Rachel's word for (Big Tech's) cloud.
by jraph 8mo ago
> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?
Clown is Rachel's word for (Big Tech's) cloud.
- senectus1 8mo agoamusingly its a term used by my co-workers to describe anyone thats not them.
- jraph 8mo agoOh well... I suppose humility is your coworker's defining quality? :-)
- senectus1 8mo agooh the answer to this is definitive. :-P
- jrflowers 8mo agoYour coworkers call you a clown?
- NoGravitas 8mo ago“When you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.”
- JackFr 8mo ago"What clown wrote this ... [ runs git blame ] ...erm...never mind."
- dehrmann 8mo agoShe was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there.
- mintplant 8mo ago"Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla.
- jraph 8mo ago> She was (or is) at Facebook was (and she worked at Google too) > "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there. Didn't know this, interesting!
- iwontberude 8mo ago[flagged]
- Anon1096 8mo agoNo it's because lots of stuff is duct taped together and then you have tons of scripts or tooling that was someone's weekend project (to make their oncall burden easier) that they shared around. Usually there'll be a flag like --clowntown or --clowny-xyz when it's obvious to all parties involved that it's destined to destroy everything one day but YOLO (also a common one).
- robby_w_g 8mo agoMaybe the AI hype is a misdirect so we will blame LLMs for future tech failures instead of the engineers who built up these services
- dang 8mo agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You may not owe clown-resemblers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. We ban accounts that keep posting in this sort of pattern, as yours has, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- baxtr 8mo agoAnyone know how she come up with the word or why she chose it?
- kadoban 8mo agoProbably just because it looks/sounds a little like cloud and has the connotations she wants. It feels pretty hacker jargon-ish, it has some "hysterical raisins" type wordplay vibes.
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- oniony 8mo agoMaybe she's a juggalo.
- rwmj 8mo agoMaybe from JWZ? https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/clown-computing.png https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/clown-computing.png
- hk1337 8mo agoSo, it's basically like Cloud2Butt but with a different word.