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Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
by Traubenfuchs 3mo ago
Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
- voidUpdate 3mo agoWhat's wrong with whimsy?
- Traubenfuchs 3mo agoIt leads to friction and required follow up extra work, as explained in the article.
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- voidUpdate 3mo agoWhere does it say it leads to friction? Other than the little ninja drawings, but they asked for that
- GuB-42 3mo agoThese names are for humans to remember and to type-in, not just for computers. And whimsy names are more memorable, which is a good thing. Random strings are for computers, not humans.
- gbalduzzi 3mo agoYeah, very comfortable to use in a conversation. > Yeah if I'm not mistaken the ticketing service is deployed on t56kl-293d1-5gqp7, do you think we should move it to iwi49-oaqq0-492fa?