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The algorithm that named us Nelmio
- CountHackulus 15y ago"The words Mozilla, Google, Sony, and Atari pretty much mean nothing." Not true! Google => Googol, 10^100 Atari => A situation in go where a chain of stones only has 1 liberty. Mozilla => Mosaic killer + Godzilla Sony => Conflation of sonus (the latin word for sound) and sonny (young boy). That of course isn't to say that this excellent article is invalid, just that he happened to choose all companies who's names do in fact means something.
- Seldaek 15y agoFair enough, and interesting facts, but I think what he meant is more that they do not have a meaning to most people. It's not like concatenating real words, it's just finding a name that has meaning to you, but still sounds unique to the world at large.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoChoosing a name is just about one of the hardest things of any new project. Sometimes you end up going with something, and it sticks - no way you're changing it halfway...
- sp332 15y agoThere are only two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache coherency, and off-by-one errors.