Comment by inopinatus
11 hours ago
Come to my office and tell me how it’s not actually my office because it’s leased by my company from the investment vehicle for institutional investors that owns the building that stands on land owned by someone else again that was stolen by the British anyway and therefore calling it “my office” makes me a fool and a liar and I should just “say what I mean”.
But if I said I’m building an office, would you assume I’m furnishing an empty rented space, or constructing the building?
I’d imagine you were recently elected and hiring staffers.
I think the word GP is objecting to isn't "your own" but rather "build".
For people who have taken empty lots and constructed new data centers (ie, the whole building) on them from scratch, the phrase "building a datacenter" involves a nonzero amount of concrete.
OP seems to have built out a data hall - which is still a cool thing in its own right! - but for someone like me who's interested in "baking an apple pie from scratch", the mismatch between the title and the content was slightly disappointing.
When you invite a girl/guy over, do you say "let's meet at my place" or "let's meet at the place I'm renting"? The possessive pronoun does not necessarily express ownership, it can just as well express occupancy.
I wouldn't oppose telling a client "we can meet at your data centre". I would not tell my wife "we need to discuss building our apartment complex" when we are planning interior decorations in our flat.
If I said to my wife, “let’s build a home together”, she would be halfway done with engaging a promising firm of radical young architects and negotiating for April delivery of pre-stressed concrete, Italian art glass, and Japanese tatami mats by close of business.
Haha fair enough
> Come to my office and tell me how it’s not actually my office (...)
I think you're failing to understand the meaning and the point of "building your own datacenter".
Yes, you can talk about your office all you'd like. Much like OP can talk about there server farm and their backend infrastructure.
What you cannot talk about is your own office center. You do not own it. You rent office space. You only have a small fraction of the work required to operate an office, because you effectively offloaded the hard part to your landlord.
Let’s chat about inferring meaning from pragmatic context at your data.
The british are always the ones to blame :')
Yes. (except for when it's the Vatican, etc)
It's more like saying you built the building. (I've bootstrapped datacenters to t2)