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Is the name a reference to Half-Life / Gordon Freeman due to its lambda complex level?

neo2001 10y ago
Oh yes there is :D
pierrec 10y ago
>due to its lambda complex level No need to look so far. The logo for Half-Life was always the Greek letter lambda (certainly because it's often used in physics and chemistry to represent the decay constant, which is a simple function of half-life). And that level is probably just named in keeping with the game's identity. I still remember when my chemistry teacher first drew a lambda on the chalkboard and said "this will give us the half-life". I felt like all the pieces finally came together in my life.
- m_mueller 10y ago
  I always thought that Half-Life's logo is from that level. I think in the game it's first used in that context.
  - mej10 10y ago
    in the equation for calculating half-life, lambda represents the decay constant.
- marxidad 10y ago
  Half Life one confirmed
  - fapjacks 10y ago
    Heh! Here, have an upvote.
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes. It's adorable. Now all we need is an open-source service compatible with AWS lambda that can run on your own servers. We could call it... freeman. Yes, I know that defeats the point of using lambda, but I felt the joke was worth it.
- pnathan 10y ago
  > Yes. It's adorable. Now all we need is an open-source service compatible with AWS lambda that can run on your own servers. We could call it... freeman. i would like to see an libre software serverless service. one huge concern of AWS Lambda is being locked into AWS's goodwill.
  - ewindisch 10y ago
    Check out LeverOS (no affiliation) https://github.com/leveros/leveros https://github.com/leveros/leveros Also, I just had the thought that a crowbar is a type of lever... not sure if that was intended or not?
    - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      If somebody builds a security module for lambda (an automated security test suite, or a pentest aid), it SHOULD be called crowbar.
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neo2001 10y ago

Oh yes there is :D

>due to its lambda complex level No need to look so far. The logo for Half-Life was always the Greek letter lambda (certainly because it's often used in physics and chemistry to represent the decay constant, which is a simple function of half-life). And that level is probably just named in keeping with the game's identity. I still remember when my chemistry teacher first drew a lambda on the chalkboard and said "this will give us the half-life". I felt like all the pieces finally came together in my life.

m_mueller 10y ago
I always thought that Half-Life's logo is from that level. I think in the game it's first used in that context.
- mej10 10y ago
  in the equation for calculating half-life, lambda represents the decay constant.
marxidad 10y ago
Half Life one confirmed
- fapjacks 10y ago
  Heh! Here, have an upvote.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

Yes. It's adorable. Now all we need is an open-source service compatible with AWS lambda that can run on your own servers. We could call it... freeman. Yes, I know that defeats the point of using lambda, but I felt the joke was worth it.

pnathan 10y ago
> Yes. It's adorable. Now all we need is an open-source service compatible with AWS lambda that can run on your own servers. We could call it... freeman. i would like to see an libre software serverless service. one huge concern of AWS Lambda is being locked into AWS's goodwill.
- ewindisch 10y ago
  Check out LeverOS (no affiliation) https://github.com/leveros/leveros https://github.com/leveros/leveros Also, I just had the thought that a crowbar is a type of lever... not sure if that was intended or not?
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    If somebody builds a security module for lambda (an automated security test suite, or a pentest aid), it SHOULD be called crowbar.

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