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dbetteridge | 1 month ago

Ah Microsoft and naming things... Name a better combo

But fair enough, I don't recall which exact version I was mucking with that long ago.

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CableNinja|1 month ago

A few years ago i was doing some vm things in azure. Hadnt touched azure before, and spent 10+ minutes of frustration trying to figure out how to get amd64/x86_64 things started, as the only thing i could find was "Azure ARM", and on googling, "arm" here means azure resource manager... ARGH why does microsoft insist on using existing names and acronyms!?!?

Greed|1 month ago

I was part of a user study on Azure back when it first rolled out-- they were looking for seniors with an AWS background to participate in UX research, and I remember walking out of that study with imposter syndrome for the very first time. Spent 60 minutes totally unable to do the thing I wanted to do when I was introduced to Azure for the first time, and I remember thinking... am I a fraud?

No! Not this time, at least. In hindsight everything was named and organized terribly and it hasn't improved much since.

antonkochubey|1 month ago

Because in their eyes if something was not invented here, it may as well not exist :-) they haven’t managed to cure this sickness in decades.