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What's wrong with this? They have resources and desire to make their work fun. What happened to wanting to enjoy what you're doing?
by xnickb 3mo ago
What'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…