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The story should end there. However, we'd separately come up with the name "PayDemon" and had already purchased both paydemon.com and paydaemon.com (we just cou
by cperciva 3y ago
The story should end there. However, we'd separately come up with the name "PayDemon" and had already purchased both paydemon.com and paydaemon.com (we just couldn't let go of our UNIX references, apparently). Despite being so common, the word "Stripe" was interestingly free of any existing brand associations. And everything it evoked was at least vaguely positive — racing stripes, striping across a RAID array, the magnetic stripe on a card. But we had to decide whether a nice name was worth the price we'd have to pay, whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.
paydaemon.com seems like it would be an awesome domain for a directory of BSD operating system projects in need of funding. "BSD is free, but it can be much better if you pay the daemon!"
- ricardobayes 3y agoSo interesting to see the early days of startups when even $20 is a considerable sum to lament about. I love these kinds of stories.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoI thought that part was just a joke.
- sokoloff 3y agoPresumably they’re talking about what they’d have to pay to buy stripe.com, not what they already paid to register the two forms of payda?emon. > In total, I sent several hundred emails that day. Of the plausible responses I received, stripe.com was the clear winner.
- pipe01 3y ago> whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.
- sokoloff 3y agoYou either inadvertently or cleverly cut out the first part of that sentence: > But we had to decide whether a nice name was worth the price we'd have to pay, whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.
- dylan604 3y agooutside of the linux nerd bubble, demon would not have positive connotations for a large swath of the populace. the religious uproar would not be a quiet one.
- baz00 3y agoYep. My eldest's boyfriend's parents won't buy Apple products because there's a bite out of the Apple. Imagine what FreeBSD would do to them! Edit: I was winding them up the other day about how everything in their house is made by godless communists in China.
- mijoharas 3y agoI was trying to understand why this would be. Is it an adam and eve and the serpent thing? because the apple has a bite out of it? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I've never heard of that aversion to apple and want to check I'm understanding right?
- seanhunter 3y agoProbably and I have heard that same thing from certain strains of evangelical. The irony is that the "Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge" (that Adam and Eve ate in the story) isn't said to be an apple anywhere in Genesis. That's just something that artists did when they depicted the scene later. They should have chosen a much more decadent fruit like a fig imo.
- seanhunter 3y agoInteresting. Wikipedia[1] suggests that the Jewish tradition has fig as one of the possibilities, alongside grape, wheat and etrog. It says there is some possibility that the use of an apple in art and literature later is a pun because the latin noun for "apple" (malum) is also one of the forms of "malus" or evil (opposite of "bonus", meaning good). So by eating the malum, they unleashed malum (evil). Or something like that[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_... [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/pa...
- layer8 3y agoSounds like a good name for a debt collector.