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fnoeftoday at 8:21 AM5 repliesview on HN

This 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?


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xnickbtoday at 8:24 AM

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?

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whstltoday at 8:32 AM

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.

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account42today at 9:57 AM

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.

Galorioustoday at 8:30 AM

Common names are much easier for people to copy over and check. As opposed to a random jumble of numbers and letters.

tonyhart7today at 9:09 AM

this is why you never get invited on houses party