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They really should offer an online course on "Over The Top Hype Generation with Advanced Hyperbole" Really? "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet"
by seiji 13y ago
They really should offer an online course on "Over The Top Hype Generation with Advanced Hyperbole"
Really? "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet" based off LXC containers they're creating an abstraction over?
It's like saying virtualenv can "Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet" because you can relocate an entire python program easily.
I love how rabid they are, but self-promotional attention is getting out of hand.
[SELF-CHECK: If you find this article annoying to read, is it because you're jealous of their attention? Are there things you've done that have mattered (or could have mattered) if only other people paid attention? How are you going to get attention next time? Yeah, getting attention this way can seem slimy, icky, unseemly, and feel like outright lies, but they'll be the millionaires and you won't. Gotta get slimy sometime.]
- pjscott 13y agoHave you ever been in the news? I'd bet that most or all of the crazy hyperbole was added by Wired. The Docker guys take a much humbler tone on their web site. Please don't criticize them for over-the-top claims that they had no hand in making.
- seiji 13y agoOld quote: "All of the press hype actually only made convincing them [prospective employees to join] harder to do... there's some sort of weird anti-correlation between press hype and ease of convincing an A-level engineer that your technology is real."