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• Pyxl101 10y ago
  It's all sarcastic. It's poking fun at how trendy advances might not necessarily be better than what existed before, as well as how much complexity is involved in them. It makes the most sense if you're already familiar with the concepts in the article (Docker, Heroku, CoreOS, etcd, and so on), and happenings in the technology industry related to them. As usual, if a joke needs to be explained (to a person) then it's not funny (to them). I found this amusing since it aligned with my experiences: > -Since no-one understands Paxos, this guy Diego… > Oh, you know him? > -No, he works at CoreOS. Anyway, Diego built Raft for his PhD thesis cause Paxos was too hard. Wicked smart dude. And then he wrote etcd as an implementation, and Aphyr said it wasn’t shit. > What’s Aphyr? > -Aphyr is that guy who wrote, ‘Call Me Maybe.’ You know, the distributed systems and BDSM guy? > What? Did you say BDSM? There are several jokes here based on cultural references related to the aforementioned topics.
  • reitanqild 10y ago
    I learned that <x> will laugh at a joke three times: * First when you tell it, * then when you explain it, * then finally when they get it. (x used to be English people when I was a kid.)
    • DonHopkins 10y ago
      A gentle reminder that it's against the Hacker News guidelines to leave unclosed xml tags in your comments.
      • rb12345 10y ago
        Surely that's BNF rather than XML?
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  At least you level of certainty has increased.