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Maybe it is just me, but I am getting tired of cute names for projects. lsof is easy to remember (list open files), I like that.

pure-awesome 8y ago
Sloth sounds like if you tried to pronounce lsof.
- martin_a 8y ago
  No, not really. S comes after L when pronouncing, no matter how you do it.
  - jsilence 8y ago
    No hsit heshlock!
- rileymat2 8y ago
  My comment was too negative. Looks very useful. I just have trouble remembering names like this. I don't think this is a name/sound that clicks for me.
  - agumonkey 8y ago
    I get the feeling too. I was just wondering about that this morning. Some times you want a name that is clearly descriptive like lock_and_clean_journal but when you have a new tool that does a lot and in a different way.. a cute name is a good symbol to indicate 'completely new context'. Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan ..
    - masklinn 8y ago
      > Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like > pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan .. I mean we kinda do, it's just that we're used to the bits. ls | xargs cat | grep main >> /dev/nul 2>&1 is not inherently more meaningful than what you wrote above, you just have the experience to interpret it. Incidentally, powershell commands tend to be more "self-explanatory" in their naming, at least in theory.
      - agumonkey 8y ago
        heh, not untrue, although most are bad shortenings.. ls:list, xargs:arguments, cat:concatenate MS did try to avoid explosion of idioms but at a tiny verbosity cost. I believe that map/reduce is a bit a good middle ground
aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
I too hate this phenomenon, but this one has version history going back to 2004, so it's not exactly your generic JS framework-of-the-week with nondescript cutesy name.
president 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted but I can relate. There is sort of a fashion to naming projects that I think many people don't understand. To me "cute" tech project names were fashionable in 2000 - 2010 (Shoes gui toolkit for ruby comes to mind) but like any trend, it was overdone and became lame.
opportune 8y ago
yeah, I don't want to be overly negative but I think this must target a very niche, possibly non-existent set of users: people who need to see all open files and sockets for whom lsof+grep is too complicated. Personally I have "sudo lsof -i | grep <port>" burned into my muscle memory and this tool just seems slower

pure-awesome 8y ago

Sloth sounds like if you tried to pronounce lsof.

martin_a 8y ago
No, not really. S comes after L when pronouncing, no matter how you do it.
- jsilence 8y ago
  No hsit heshlock!
rileymat2 8y ago
My comment was too negative. Looks very useful. I just have trouble remembering names like this. I don't think this is a name/sound that clicks for me.
- agumonkey 8y ago
  I get the feeling too. I was just wondering about that this morning. Some times you want a name that is clearly descriptive like lock_and_clean_journal but when you have a new tool that does a lot and in a different way.. a cute name is a good symbol to indicate 'completely new context'. Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan ..
  - masklinn 8y ago
    > Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like > pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan .. I mean we kinda do, it's just that we're used to the bits. ls | xargs cat | grep main >> /dev/nul 2>&1 is not inherently more meaningful than what you wrote above, you just have the experience to interpret it. Incidentally, powershell commands tend to be more "self-explanatory" in their naming, at least in theory.
    - agumonkey 8y ago
      heh, not untrue, although most are bad shortenings.. ls:list, xargs:arguments, cat:concatenate MS did try to avoid explosion of idioms but at a tiny verbosity cost. I believe that map/reduce is a bit a good middle ground

aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago

I too hate this phenomenon, but this one has version history going back to 2004, so it's not exactly your generic JS framework-of-the-week with nondescript cutesy name.

president 8y ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted but I can relate. There is sort of a fashion to naming projects that I think many people don't understand. To me "cute" tech project names were fashionable in 2000 - 2010 (Shoes gui toolkit for ruby comes to mind) but like any trend, it was overdone and became lame.

opportune 8y ago

yeah, I don't want to be overly negative but I think this must target a very niche, possibly non-existent set of users: people who need to see all open files and sockets for whom lsof+grep is too complicated. Personally I have "sudo lsof -i | grep <port>" burned into my muscle memory and this tool just seems slower