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For everybody who has no idea what a "gravitational teleport" is: it's an SSH server (http://gravitational.com/teleport/ http://gravitational.com/teleport/). Pr
by mbel 10y ago
For everybody who has no idea what a "gravitational teleport" is: it's an SSH server (http://gravitational.com/teleport/ http://gravitational.com/teleport/). Probably it could be included in title? (yeah, I know HN guidelines prefer verbatim titles)
- TeMPOraL 10y agoRelated; I wish people would stop picking such names for their products / companies. Nowadays if I read anything about DevOps, I start to feel like I'm reading something about naval fleet command. Or the other day I saw that headline and thought about Mars terraforming project, only it turned out to be a configuration management software. sigh.
- fao_ 10y agoPerhaps by the time we get to the level where we're doing mass geo-engineering, all the cool trademarks and names will be gone :(
- lordelph 10y agoThat's why such projects will use their vast artificial intellect to name themselves things like "Just Read The Instructions" and "I Thought He Was With You" :)
- doubleplusgood 10y agoUnfortunate Conflict Of Evidence is my favourite.
- delinka 10y agoI'm partial to Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill
- zeristor 10y agoStrange you should say that I was going to call my Mars Terraforming project Configuration Manager.
- zeristor 10y agoWhat does gravitational teleport even mean? One would think that effect of gravitation could be forced to occur at a different place in the universe, nifty perhaps but not on the top of things I need. It seems naming has turned into a poetic amalgam of words to excite. Stripped of meaning it is technobabble in its purest form.
- iand675 10y agoIt appears that organisation is named Gravitational, and the project name is Teleport. I don't think there's much basis for this critique aside from the poor title choice.
- mtreis86 10y agoEngineers like names to be unambiguous as possible. Teleport tells us absolutely nothing about the software.
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- arjie 10y ago> Engineers like names to be unambiguous as possible Such a wealth of evidence that this is complete bullshit. Emacs, Gnome, Amarok, Chrome, Firefox, Git, Mercurial, Hibernate, Spring, Play, Om, Racer.
- Sunset 10y agoI'm still salty about Chrome, "chrome" is a technical term in browser development. It literally means the widgety parts of the GUI that sits on the top, the part that's not the webpage being rendered.
- Chris2048 10y agoSome places do this on purpose in order to get into existing word-real-estate, and maybe even give the impression that their product is responsible for it.
- nsb1 10y agoOr at least link to the main page instead of the release notes.
- subway 10y agoWhat release notes? I still can't find anything about what makes this release noteworthy.