There are 2 hard problems in computer science: naming things and cache invalidation. Cloudflare writes about how it deals with the first one.
3 hard things: you missed counting things.
What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
As 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.
> 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
> 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
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Maybe they should spend more time keeping their servers from crashing lol, and less on nameserver-namings
This is an article from 2013
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#25Just make it a uuid or some other kind of random a-z0-9 string to avoid all this whimsy and nuisance?
These names are for humans to remember and to type-in, not just for computers. And whimsy names are more memorable, which is a good thing. Random strings are for computers, not humans.
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#27There are 2 hard problems in computer science: naming things and cache invalidation. Cloudflare writes about how it deals with the first one.
3 hard things: you missed counting things.
The classic version...
There are two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
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#28"Naming strategies for servers" seems like a big enough niche for there to exist a compendium somewhere already, but I couldn't find a good one.
I always refer to https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
Fantastic, I have long used Culture Ship names [0] to name my devices but this is a far easier list to reference than others online
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#29This 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?
this is why you never get invited on houses party