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You can have the worst of both worlds. I've worked at three(!) seperate companies which have had projects called 'Hydra' (and the number of people who were ig
by JackFr 4y ago
You can have the worst of both worlds. I've worked at three(!) seperate companies which have had projects called 'Hydra' (and the number of people who were ignorant of what the Hydra was, and why it might not have been a great name for a software project never ceased to amaze me.)
I like clever, cute names. That is names like Hydra, Spirit, and others which are unrelated to the function, but which are anodyne and generic and not terribly uncommon end up being the worst.
(I have a soft spot for clever names, my favorite is still Leiningen the clojure build system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants)
- nivenkos 4y agoIt feels like every company has an Apollo, Hydra or Hermes...
- mook 4y agoI worked at a startup with a bird theme for a bit under 4 years. There were three separate things named Nightingale in that time. By the time I left, it was kind of a joke to suggest that as the name for random things.
- mypalmike 4y agoNightingale was probably also the name of a meeting room. I managed to avoid creating any new tools or services with bird names during my time there, though it was tempting to do so.
- nix-zarathustra 4y agoMozilla was named because the browser was going to be a "Mosaic killer". They made a bug tracker which they named bugzilla. Atlassian made their own bug tracker called Jira, in reference to the japanese transliteration for godzilla, "gojira", which is similar to bugzilla.