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Do people sometimes come up with project names that are so good, they are compelled to implement the project?
by philsnow 7y ago
Do people sometimes come up with project names that are so good, they are compelled to implement the project?
- somada141 7y agoIt really is a great name, I'd feel compelled to write it if I had come up with it.
- ken 7y agoIt's certainly clever, but I anticipate plenty of confusion (written, spoken, typed, search engine, etc) due to the Hamming distance between "firestorm" and "firestore". I really wish people would stop trying to use overly cute names. This is the nomenclatural equivalent of code golf. If someone bragged that they overlapped two constants to save 3 bytes, I would not consider that an improvement. Whatever happened to the belief that communication was more important than brevity? Some teams even test their user interfaces with users. Names are part of the user interface, yet I've never heard of anyone in software testing a name.
- vga805 7y agoOur engineering team has a #naming slack channel. It actually gets a pretty good amount of use and it's been pretty helpful.
- NikkiA 7y agoIt's not like they were first, and will probably have to change their name: https://www.firestormviewer.org/ https://www.firestormviewer.org/