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I laugh at all these pop culture code names. Like guys... Don't do that... You look like you are desperate to stay in touch.
by tbirrell 10y ago
I laugh at all these pop culture code names. Like guys... Don't do that... You look like you are desperate to stay in touch.
- zo7 10y agoThey actually serve their purpose pretty well. You won't arouse suspicion or hint at any details of the project if someone overhears you talking about sonic screwdrivers or dark matter. It's not like they intended these projects to be known outside the CIA/IC.
- Chaebixi 10y agoThat's a good point, but I'd imagine they could do better in that regard by picking bland corporate project names (e.g. NextGen, Aurora, Cheetah, Phase 2).
- bogomipz 10y agoAs opposed to names like "Chaos Monkey", "Zesty Zapus", "mustache.js", "MongoDB" and other such open source project names discussed on HN?