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It 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 t
by iand675 10y ago
It 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.
- Chris2048 10y agoIsn't Emacs short for elisp Macros? GNOME is Gnu Network Object Model Environment. a lot of these things it makes sense just to give a unique name (Git, Mercurial) followed by its 'type', e.g. "The Git VCS".
- moomin 10y agoEditor Macros, I believe. There were several Emacses before GNU Emacs.
- TeMPOraL 10y agounambiguous != self-descriptive I may not understand what Emacs is by looking at just the name, but I'll definitely not think it's a breakthrough in quantum physics or a planetary engineering project.
- kordless 10y agoWe're now 5 replies deep into a comment by someone that shows historical & purposeful pedantry. I would state that, in previous times, this type of comment thread would be killed fairly quickly given what you name something really isn't that important vs. what it actually does for helping secure infrastructure. Perhaps we're seeing the effect of viral irrationality manifest itself here, within our gates. We're here for learning about technology. We're not here to have some meaningless discussion about marketing tactics.
- josegonzalez 10y agoA yes, like ycombinator.
- Chris2048 10y agothat isn't a product though, right? It's a company, under which other companies are contained?