| ▲ | jraph 9 hours ago |
| > Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent? Clown is Rachel's word for (Big Tech's) cloud. |
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| ▲ | dehrmann 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| She was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there. |
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| ▲ | jraph 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > She was (or is) at Facebook was (and she worked at Google too) > "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there. Didn't know this, interesting! | |
| ▲ | mintplant 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla. | |
| ▲ | iwontberude 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Im interested in the provenance, is it because their pasty white, red headed CEO resembles and behaves like a clown? | | |
| ▲ | Anon1096 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No it's because lots of stuff is duct taped together and then you have tons of scripts or tooling that was someone's weekend project (to make their oncall burden easier) that they shared around. Usually there'll be a flag like --clowntown or --clowny-xyz when it's obvious to all parties involved that it's destined to destroy everything one day but YOLO (also a common one). |
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| ▲ | zombot 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good to know, I thought at first she meant the current occupant of the President's chair. |
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| ▲ | baxtr 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyone know how she come up with the word or why she chose it? |
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| ▲ | senectus1 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| amusingly its a term used by my co-workers to describe anyone thats not them. |
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| ▲ | jraph 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh well... I suppose humility is your coworker's defining quality? :-) | | | |
| ▲ | jrflowers 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Your coworkers call you a clown? | | |
| ▲ | senectus1 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I didnt call them workmates. | | |
| ▲ | jrflowers 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hire somebody to make balloon animals in the office for a couple hours, pay in cash, tell the balloonist that your name is [coworker’s name] |
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