I love these kinds of stories.
What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#32Vatican server names sounded somewhat interesting too: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. They set up their own ISP and cloud hosting since then, but it was a funny gig they did in the past.
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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> 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
> I also went to the stock market today. I did a business.
Vincent Adultman
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#34"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
For LAN servers, I used to name my Linux machines after penguins. It seemed apt, made me smile, especially when new people came on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_penguins
The Windows and Solaris boxes had numbers before i got there. A new guy started moving them to a name that included the os version like 'server-2008' in it. Never really liked that
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
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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?
Maybe they should spend more time keeping their servers from crashing lol, and less on nameserver-namings
If 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
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#36I started on a new team once and I was integrating some CloudFlare services, I hooked a domain name and I was assigned a nameserver with my lastname and one with my new manager's lastname... nobody ever believed I did not picked those, people still joke about a love story that involves a manager, myself and CloudFlare.
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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?
Maybe they should spend more time keeping their servers from crashing lol, and less on nameserver-namings
Maybe you should spend more time doing your job better and less on HN comments.
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#38> One side note on this point: we once had someone write in to support criticizing us based on the fact that our name server convention is hetro-normative. I will simply say that just because you get two name servers doesn't mean they're in any kind of relationship.
I mean, you could add 50 gender-neutral names to try to balance it out...
There are infinite genders though, so it's not really fair to go beyond that.
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#39Earlier 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?
The 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 a…
I 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.
Re: What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
#40This 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?
Agreed, sounds like Cloudflare is adult daycare. I see it as a sign that these companies have more money to waste than they should have in a functioning competitive market.