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Little inside nods is what makes names like this particularly fun. For everyone else, it's just a catchy name.
by danielha 16y ago
Little inside nods is what makes names like this particularly fun. For everyone else, it's just a catchy name.
- pg 16y agoWe knew this was safe because it worked for YC.
- 10ren 16y agoDoesn't YC target people like us, as opposed to the mainstream?
- statictype 16y agoI think he meant the name 'Y Combinator' is also similar. It has significant meaning to those who know what a Y-Combinator is. For others, it's just a cool name.
- j_baker 16y agoI think that even for programmers, Y Combinator (the fixed point combinator not the company) is somewhat obscure.
- diN0bot 16y agoi originally misread it as "gremlin", those little devils that do annoying things when no one is looking.
- mhartl 16y agoI doubt the resemblance is a coincidence: greplin appears to be a portmanteau of grep and gremlin. (IMHO, it's a great name.)
- whatusername 16y agoAlthough it does also make me think of moblin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin