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Wonder if the author is Greek since φρένο (which would be ‘freno’ in greeklish) means ‘break’ as in deaccelerator
by somada141 8y ago
Wonder if the author is Greek since φρένο (which would be ‘freno’ in greeklish) means ‘break’ as in deaccelerator
- shlomi-noach 8y agoThe origin of the name 'freno' is discussed in the README: https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name What's in a name? "Freno" is Spanish for "brake", as in car brake. Basically we just wanted to call it "throttler" or "throttled" but both these names are in use by multiple other repositories and we went looking for something else. When we looked up the word "freno" in a dictionary, we found the following sentence: Echa el freno, magdaleno! This reminded us of the 80's and that was it.
- somada141 8y agoHaha once again Greek and Spanish conflate :)