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The name is great, as is the slack command /screen, just keep using it. Saying this as a user of GNU Screen. It's OK, approximately nobody is going to be confus
by Androider 7y ago
The name is great, as is the slack command /screen, just keep using it. Saying this as a user of GNU Screen. It's OK, approximately nobody is going to be confused by this in the real world.
- lucb1e 7y agoI first expected a "screen -x" tutorial (which attaches multiple clients to the same session; screen sharing, if you will) when skimming HN titles, but yeah the "by the cofounder of X" tipped me off when I read a little closer. Going to be hard to google, though. For reasons unrelated to GNU screen, I dislike product names that appear in a dictionary with the most common words. Not saying that /screen would be a bad Slack alias or whatever, so long as that isn't taken why not, but as a product name there might be a nice thing to tack on that you can abbreviate to Screen but still allows you to google for the right thing or clarify when someone is confused.
- markdown 7y ago> approximately nobody is going to be confused by this in the real world. Do you really think nobody is going to be confused when you tell them to use "Screen"? "I'm staring at my screen right now, what do you mean?" "It's the name of an app". If people have to introduce your app as "use the app called Screen", then it's a bad name. Think Viber, Skype, Whatsapp, Colgate, Facebook.
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