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Not sure I like the name, I came into this thread expecting to read about a computer built using 21 BTC worth of components.

by pkinsky 11y ago

logicallee 11y ago
It's a particular problem in titles that use title case.[1] What I mean is that in any such title, 21 Bitcoin Computer will read like 21 bitcoin computer. I would argue that due to the extremely unusual name (Edit: see replies to this comment) our title should read "21 introduces 21 Bitcoin Computer" or "21 Bitcoin Computer from 21" or something. [1] Though editors in all media are slowly moving away from title case, especially in newspapers (I mean as opposed to films and books) - the NYT and WSJ are both still on title case, but not the USA Today, Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, or, for that matter, FT. HN is mixed: for example, out of the 30 articles currently on the front page, 22 are in title case, but 8 aren't. (There are no ambiguous ones currently, such as a single word or a single word and then only numbers or prepositions.) Reddit has completely moved to sentence case. EDIT: I missed one, "Netflix Lemur" is ambiguous. Here's my sample/dataset: http://pastie.org/10436384* http://pastie.org/10436384*
- pkinsky 11y ago
  The Bitcoin computer by 21, maybe. I hate to come into a thread about something cool that someone built just to complain about the name, but it just doesn't scan.
  - logicallee 11y ago
    can you name any other companies (or projects) that literally match [0-9]+? No Googling :) It would be as if "37 signals" had been called just "37". Oh, wait, they have no reason to be confusing :) By the way I wasn't among the people complaining - I just think a title with some lowercase in it may be clearer. Maybe not though. I was still wrong after reading the whole article and the whole article it links. The name of the company is 21 (supposedly) and the name of this computer is the Bitcoin Computer or maybe 21 Bitcoin Computer.
Vexs 11y ago
Me too. 21*220$=4620$, which is quite a bit for a PC- it would have been a good article, especially if he bought everything with bitcoin.
evincarofautumn 11y ago
You’d generally write that with a hyphen: “The 21-Bitcoin Computer”.
kingbathtub 11y ago
I think they're being a little too clever with the name. https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#wont-the-finite-amount-of-bitcoins-be-a-limitation https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#wont-the-finite-amount-of-bitcoin...

Not sure I like the name, I came into this thread expecting to read about a computer built using 21 BTC worth of components.

by pkinsky 11y ago

Not sure I like the name, I came into this thread expecting to read about a computer built using 21 BTC worth of components.

logicallee 11y ago

It's a particular problem in titles that use title case.[1] What I mean is that in any such title, 21 Bitcoin Computer will read like 21 bitcoin computer. I would argue that due to the extremely unusual name (Edit: see replies to this comment) our title should read "21 introduces 21 Bitcoin Computer" or "21 Bitcoin Computer from 21" or something. [1] Though editors in all media are slowly moving away from title case, especially in newspapers (I mean as opposed to films and books) - the NYT and WSJ are both still on title case, but not the USA Today, Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, or, for that matter, FT. HN is mixed: for example, out of the 30 articles currently on the front page, 22 are in title case, but 8 aren't. (There are no ambiguous ones currently, such as a single word or a single word and then only numbers or prepositions.) Reddit has completely moved to sentence case. EDIT: I missed one, "Netflix Lemur" is ambiguous. Here's my sample/dataset: http://pastie.org/10436384* http://pastie.org/10436384*

pkinsky 11y ago
The Bitcoin computer by 21, maybe. I hate to come into a thread about something cool that someone built just to complain about the name, but it just doesn't scan.
- logicallee 11y ago
  can you name any other companies (or projects) that literally match [0-9]+? No Googling :) It would be as if "37 signals" had been called just "37". Oh, wait, they have no reason to be confusing :) By the way I wasn't among the people complaining - I just think a title with some lowercase in it may be clearer. Maybe not though. I was still wrong after reading the whole article and the whole article it links. The name of the company is 21 (supposedly) and the name of this computer is the Bitcoin Computer or maybe 21 Bitcoin Computer.

Vexs 11y ago

Me too. 21*220$=4620$, which is quite a bit for a PC- it would have been a good article, especially if he bought everything with bitcoin.

evincarofautumn 11y ago

You’d generally write that with a hyphen: “The 21-Bitcoin Computer”.

kingbathtub 11y ago

I think they're being a little too clever with the name. https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#wont-the-finite-amount-of-bitcoins-be-a-limitation https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#wont-the-finite-amount-of-bitcoin...