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scrcpy (mnemonic SCReen CoPY) is such a cool, unique, easily googlable & memorable name. I pray to God to give me this wisdom everytime I am goofing off on ins
by textread 4y ago
scrcpy (mnemonic SCReen CoPY) is such a cool, unique, easily googlable & memorable name.
I pray to God to give me this wisdom everytime I am goofing off on instantdomainsearch.
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Why scrcpy?
A colleague challenged me to find a
name as unpronounceable as gnirehtet.
strcpy copies a string; scrcpy copies a screen.
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/tree/4e9e712#why-scrcpy https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/tree/4e9e712#why-scrcpy
- digdugdirk 4y agoSuper interesting comment, since I've used the software for years and had always assumed the name had something to do with "scraping" your UI from your phone to your screen. Agreed on the cool/unique, but I could never remember the name when I needed to look for it, because I never made the "screen copy" connection. Just another data point for why marketing is a thing, I suppose.
- textread 4y agoThank you. Let us assume that you were the owner of a hypothetical business named scrcpy.com You would love for browsers to implement CSS colored urls or capital lettering to resolve both the issues you raised.
- em-bee 4y agoit looks to similar to strcpy() which for some reason makes it confusing and not at all memorable to me. (and i don't even write code in languages that have this function)
- textread 4y agoBeing similar to strcpy() seems to have been intentional by its creator. Alas, a feature has turned into a bug :(
- tripdout 4y agoAnd up next, scrncpy