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New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

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Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#41
post #13

I'm expecting someone to actually make an Infinidash product now.

Been watching this whole thing happen and I agree. This feels like one of those times where a thing comes to life because you uttered its name so many times… :)

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#42

People in tech are constantly chasing the next big thing, but honestly I feel like most of the major software paradigms have been discovered , things like website UX, AI etc are already at the state of maximum effectiveness and "innovation" is basically just a way of locking in devs who want to learn something that's "industry standard." Look at all the pointless wheel spinning created by having multiple large JS fra…

> but honestly I feel like most of the major software paradigms have been discovered…

Do t worry: I felt that way in the 80s before, say, the introduction of the Macintosh (which was merely a small, crippled version of my lispm)

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#43
post #32

This reminds me of a practical joke a co-worker and I pulled some years back, we made up a new project called the LMNOP project (just letters out of the alphabet). We used a program i wrote based on the old foggy where whenever we would see a good BS line from an email or document we put it in the BS generator DB. We had the program spit out several pages of total BS and some fake but impressive looking diagrams made…

> this looks like something you may have had something to do with ?". I laughed and said just having a bit of fun. Surely this would've been the best time to reply with "Sorry, I can't discuss it"

Catch-22 vibes

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#44
I just can’t get over the pricing of Infinidash.

0.005 cents per dash FLOP?

Seriously?

For something you could whip together with rsync + a few bash scripts and throw it on an EC2 instance?

Also no us-north-7 is a dealbreaker for our shop

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#46
post #20

For a small team though Infinidash works great. But once you start making serious revenue and growing the headcount you’re better off managing your own instances.

There is no instance, it is AWS Proprietary Intelectual Cloud Property.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#47
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This is an archive.org link, presumably they have changed it back.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#48
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No, it's selecting candidates who are aware of the current Twitter joke of the day. They're either unaware of how small that bubble is or accepting of the monoculture this promotes.

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#49
post #32

This reminds me of a practical joke a co-worker and I pulled some years back, we made up a new project called the LMNOP project (just letters out of the alphabet). We used a program i wrote based on the old foggy where whenever we would see a good BS line from an email or document we put it in the BS generator DB. We had the program spit out several pages of total BS and some fake but impressive looking diagrams made…

See also: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_generator

Example fake paper: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/rooter.pdf

Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This is an archive.org link, presumably they have changed it back.

It's still there.
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