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This is so cringe. I feel like software engineers are just overgrown toddlers stuck in kindergarten: "We named our servers with boy and girls names and hired an
by fnoef 3mo ago
This is so cringe. I feel like software engineers are just overgrown toddlers stuck in kindergarten: "We named our servers with boy and girls names and hired an artist to draw their personalities as ninjas!!@!111". I mean, whats wrong with a plain old 4 character hash or whatever?
- xnickb 3mo agoWhat's wrong with this? They have resources and desire to make their work fun. What happened to wanting to enjoy what you're doing?
- onesandofgrain 3mo agoMaybe they should spend more time keeping their servers from crashing lol, and less on nameserver-namings
- voidUpdate 3mo agoThis is an article from 2013
- onesandofgrain 3mo agoExactly, they weren't proactive. Wasting their time on useless fanfiction.
- hobofan 3mo agoYeah, I'm sure they've spent a significant time of their whole engineering department in the 13 years since the blog post on this!
- onesandofgrain 3mo agoThe only useful thing they provide is DDOS protection and free analytics. For some reason the whole world is brainwashed into thinking we need all of these horrendous cloud providers. Hetzner is thankfully taking up the market. You need a server and that's it + some ddos protection.
- xnickb 3mo agoIf people cared much more about how they spend their own time (and money) and less about how others spend their's world would've been a much better place. But it ain't
- stavros 3mo agoMaybe you should spend more time doing your job better and less on HN comments.
- fnoef 3mo agoThe wrong in this, is the extent they went to with this. I mean, name your servers whatever you want, but hiring an artist to draw the servers personalities and then writing a blog post about this? Like common, that's something a child would do about their favorite toy. At some point, people need to grow up. And I guess the other "wrong with it" is the fact that it just wastes human potential. Build robust software and take pride in this, not it naming your servers bob and lola.
- chuckadams 3mo agoI reject your joyless reality and substitute my own.
- xnickb 3mo agoI disagree with your definition of what 'growing up' is about. There is something lost in the world where making silly but fun things is frowned upon. And yes, fun is subjective. I don't share my kids excitement about most things, but I'm genuinely happy they enjoy themselves so much. Being able to use the same notion to all people, not just (your) kids is part of growing up in my books.
- yreg 3mo agoSure, not using a naming scheme and not hiring the artist would have unlocked the potential to make their software soooo much more robust…
- Galorious 3mo agoCommon names are much easier for people to copy over and check. As opposed to a random jumble of numbers and letters.
- secret-noun 3mo agoCommon names also seem retypeable, which is usually a bad idea because it is error prone, especially in certain fonts. Random jumbles make retyping untenable, so copy-paste is used, which can't make the same mistakes, but is still vulnerable to operator error with incomplete copies.
- whstl 3mo agoAs someone slightly older than average here, one of the perks of maturity for me is not caring much about what others think anymore. Childish or cringe are fine. But I don’t judge you: being a teenager or a young adult and rejecting such things is a rite of passage that we all go through.
- CodesInChaos 3mo ago> When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ― C.S. Lewis
- fnoef 3mo ago> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ― 1 Corinthians 13:11
- tonyhart7 3mo agothis is why you never get invited on houses party
- account42 3mo agoAgreed, sounds like Cloudflare is adult daycare. I see it as a sign that these companies have more money to waste than they should have in a functioning competitive market.