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		irusensei 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Love Letter to FreeBSD I prefer pets. I also give my server silly names. I think the cattle not pets crowd art partly to blame in ruining the fun of computing.

karlgkk 9 days ago [–]

I don’t think in terms of servers, I think in terms of applications

Applications are my pets. Servers are the pens I keep them in. Pets are precious, pens are replaceable.

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