And it is likely inspired by the old joke that 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL was one less than "IBM".

I was skeptical that it was a joke since it's quite a big coincidence, but according to Arthur C. Clarke:

> ...about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

I have a hard time believing it was a coincidence.

:-)

I love this so much. THIS is why CF is one of the only companies I'd ever consider working for.

Facebook’s csrf cookie and token are named dtsg. I hope that’s not the only reason you would also consider working for them.

I was referring more to the context that the CEO is “one of us”, he is regularly on HN, and is available via Twitter/email to constructive criticism. I interviewed with CF earlier this year and ultimately decided the timing wasn’t right.

Love the company but the touch that the CEO gives a ____ really matters to me.

R language is an open source implementation of the original S language from IBM. Its name was a play on S and also based on the fact that both the authors of the R language have first names starting with R, Ross and Robert. I suppose R2 may have been a good choice as well (would have helped with google searches)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

and Windows NT and Digital Vax

WNT<-VMS

With many of the main people from the VMS system brought onboard to create NT, too.

Oh I didn't know that. Both the name and relation of VMS and NT. Thanks for sharing.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm... tells some of the story of Dave Cutler and his 20 headcount he brought with him from DEC to MS. Their influence on NT runs deep.

How is it even a quip? S3 already has "one less than S3", which is called Reduced Redundancy (R2). Just for whatever dumbass reason they branded it RRS :P

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy/

The joke has already been made on twitter ... with AWS folks also jumping in.

https://twitter.com/BentTerp/status/1443083172221161474

'already' as in before 'ahead of Cloudflare's announcement'?

Interesting, too, as the unreleased pre-cursors to S3 were called first S5, and then S4.

What did the extra S's stand for?

Never heard of S5. S4 stood for Simple Server-Side Storage. Source: at AWS 2008-2014.

Secure Simple Server-Side Storage is still on the backlog :P

Simple Server-Side Storage Service IIRC

You mean T4 and U5!

Oh wait, pretty sure those are EC2 instance types. :p

It’ll be interesting to see Pirelli taking a market share in the cloud.

> final one would be P0

P0 would get disrupted by O-1