[jraph]

> 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.

[dehrmann]

She was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there.

[jraph]

> 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]

"Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla.

[hk1337]

So, it's basically like Cloud2Butt but with a different word.

[baxtr]

Anyone know how she come up with the word or why she chose it?

[rwmj]

Maybe from JWZ? https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/clown-computing.png

[yborg]

Huh. How did you link to jwz without getting THAT image?

[jraph]

It's another domain, jwz probably didn't set up that redirection on this one.

[kadoban]

Probably just because it looks/sounds a little like cloud and has the connotations she wants.

It feels pretty hacker jargon-ish, it has some "hysterical raisins" type wordplay vibes.

[oniony]

Maybe she's a juggalo.

[senectus1]

amusingly its a term used by my co-workers to describe anyone thats not them.

[jraph]

Oh well... I suppose humility is your coworker's defining quality? :-)

[senectus1]

oh the answer to this is definitive. :-P

[jrflowers]

Your coworkers call you a clown?

[senectus1]

I didnt call them workmates.

[jrflowers]

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]

[JackFr]

"What clown wrote this ... [ runs git blame ] ...erm...never mind."

[NoGravitas]

“When you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.”