News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on ‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility. Parent comment

Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by dsfyu404ed on Sunday September 24, 2017 @11:06AM (#15324971)
>I worked for a nuclear sciences consultancy whose hostnames for machines were Simpsons' characters.

I once tried giving hosts Arabic names. It actually worked pretty well since the naming system lets you express inheritance and works better when spoken than "proxy X on testnet Y" or "proxyX dot testnetY" (especially when not everyone speaks English as their first language and some people may be joining the call from a cell phone in a car).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name#Example_name

I don't think it would scale to an IT larger than ~10 or so.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by wahern on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:35PM (#15332832)
Does it only work better spoken, or does it also work better in written form? Do you include the article/prefix in the hostnames?

Naming is the most vexing aspect of programming, so you really must share more, even if just to deflate expectations.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium f... by pavel_lishin on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:02PM (#15325499)
Neat, I had no idea that at a certain point, you're referred to by your relationship to your first-born son.
[ Parent | on HN ]