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Why in the world would programmers name a feature after a programming primitive? I'm gonna make a new chat app called deadlock.
by crimsonalucard 7y ago
Why in the world would programmers name a feature after a programming primitive?
I'm gonna make a new chat app called deadlock.
- holy_city 7y agoNew calendar app: Priority Inversion
- kjeetgill 7y agoSo Jira?
- uptown 7y agoPretty unlikely that Facebook is allowing programmers to name this type of thing.
- fourseventy 7y agoThe word 'thread' has existed since long before computers.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoThat's not the point. The point is programmers created this feature and decided name it the same thing they used to create it. A seamstress isn't going to call a piece of cloth a thread, when cloth is made up of threads.
- untog 7y agoWhy do you think the programmers decided on what the name is?
- sbarre 7y agoA product marketing team named the app, not the programmers. Do you think Facebook is just a company made up of programmers?
- crimsonalucard 7y agoNo obviously not, but I would think they have influence on the name.
- joemi 7y agoI'd be willing to bet big money that the programmers did not name this app. In a company the size of Facebook, that'd be a miracle.
- downvotertoday 7y agoUgh. RIGHT? No product should be named after a Programming terminology. Who does that right? :| /s
- crimsonalucard 7y agoNo PROGRAM should be named after a Programming terminology. You need to remove the "/s" from your comment for it to make sense.
- lotyrin 7y agoSaid they, on the "Y-Combinator" Hacker News comments.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoY combinator is more a math thing. Not a programming primitive. Highly doubt there's any Y combinators in the code being used to build this site.
- untog 7y agoWhy in the world would Microsoft name an operating system after a UI primitive? Doomed to failure, I tell you.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoThe UI primitive was named after the operating system.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoFollow the sensible approach instead, and name your messaging app with a catchy generic name, like "Messenger" or "iMessages".