Friday Musing: Why Hamsters?
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
I always thought the "hamsters" were like Gremlins - up to no good, mischief. so when something is broken with the site the Hamsters did it.
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
It stems from the early CodeProject days when a bunch of hamsters escaped from the Maunder home and went feral. Till this day they thrive in the wamth of the CodeProject datacenters.
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
Good point ... Let's investigate :-) as I am also quite curious about this, and I never heard this before except in the Lounge ... and, this interview [A Coder Interview With Chris Maunder](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/267615/A-Coder-Interview-With-Chris-Maunder) points to Chris :-)
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
Dunno, whether or not it pre-existed CP, but I think the concept is that the servers are powered by hamsters running in their wheels. Which would explain why things may appear markedly slower at times -- the hamsters need feeding. And when the hamsters get out, things go bad.
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
If memory serves, CP severs are built from used iPhones. Tens of thousands of them. You need a lot of minions to service and maintain all these devices. Only a high number of well trained and occasionally electroshocked hamsters can pull of this kind of task.
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If memory serves, CP severs are built from used iPhones. Tens of thousands of them. You need a lot of minions to service and maintain all these devices. Only a high number of well trained and occasionally electroshocked hamsters can pull of this kind of task.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
Nope, iPAQ PDAs: The New CodeProject Web Farm[^]
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
I can't believe that no one has answered correctly yet. It is in honor of Chris' mother, a hamster.
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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
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I can't believe that no one has answered correctly yet. It is in honor of Chris' mother, a hamster.
Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian? No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets. Best wishes to all - Craig
The Lounge[^] - September 2002:
Damn - looks like we need to change the hamsters in the cage. cheers, Chris Maunder
That's the earliest reference I can find. :) Followed by this[^] in March 2003.
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