How long until AWS releases Infinidash as a self-defeating prophecy?
This would be the right thing to do from AWS. Would be the perfect April fools day joke.
New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
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#23Is the name trademarked yet?
If not, expect it to be used unironically in the very near future - gotta leverage the existing memespace momentum... (actually, even if it is already TM'd)
good fun, and on point
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#24I tracked most of it as it was happening, and TBH the number of fairly well known people who played along was just staggering. Although there is some flak being taken about making this "too real", I have an impression that many people played along because it was, in fact, very symptomatic of the hype-driven approach to tech the industry has these days. So it wasn't just about recruiting, and resumé keyword stuffing (…
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#25I wonder if this will end up entering the lexicon like Turboencabulator.
Soon we will see scientific papers on the cogno-intellectual effects of excessive Infinidash use.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a link? Like, are they hiring unironically?
AFAIK folks are adding this as a joke. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20210705124241/https://jobs.leve...
Haha
> Must include considerable time spent within the Infinidash lifecycle (OpenDash acceptable). Infinidash is at the core of everything we do.
Why yes, I have exactly this skill set
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#27I am not famous, but that's what I would have tweeted:
Inifidash is nice and all, but yet again there is no support in CloudFormation from the get-go, time to go all-in Terraform (which of course already supports it)?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK folks are adding this as a joke. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20210705124241/https://jobs.leve...
Haha > Must include considerable time spent within the Infinidash lifecycle (OpenDash acceptable). Infinidash is at the core of everything we do. Why yes, I have exactly this skill set
Are they not worried about people seeing the joke requirement in the job spec, just not being aware of the current Twitter joke of the day, and discounting themselves?
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#29It took me one day to realize it was fake. I saw it happen and started reading and listening to the Twitter spaces after a couple beers and I was like "WTF, I don't get anything about it, I must have missed so many things lately". And yes, having so many of the influencial people talking about it in the same room like they knew what it was really made it confusing. Thanks Ian for calling it BS the day after
I also didn't know what it was, and actually went and found a live stream product launch coverage video to watch... they actually made an entire fake live stream about it. Was confusing and felt a bit mean to waste the time of people just trying to understand what's going on.
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#30This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
Exactly. The title seems to imply "Hey, look how gullible people can be that even a non-existent product can go 'viral'", but all of the examples are people "pushing" it to go viral to see how far they can't take it.
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon in my old age, but the whole thing seems pretty lame to me.