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This is one of the most badass names for a project I have seen in a while!
by pedrodelfino 3y ago
This is one of the most badass names for a project I have seen in a
while!
- chongli 3y agoIt's inaccurate though. The whole point of horcruxes in the book is that Voldemort can always resurrect himself if one of them remains. This tool is the opposite: you need multiple parts to reconstruct the file.
- sanex 3y agoYeah but that's just copy paste. This is more fun.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- danielvaughn 3y agoHorcrux would be a cool name for a database backup service
- pottermoreXprt6 3y agoNo because a Horcrux is a nasty lossy copy that involves somebody's death to be made. Any wholesome leader who is also a HP fan would not appreciate the name tbh.
- natch 3y agoThey already acknowledged this in the faq fwiw.
- chongli 3y agoThey acknowledged it but dismissed it with an incorrect statement, and then declared victory with "checkmate HP fans" despite actually being wrong.
- natch 3y agoCool. Not being privy to Harry Potter inside baseball I could not tell from your original comment whether you had seen that FAQ entry.
- chongli 3y agoI’m not an extreme Harry Potter fan or anything. It just bothers me when people ride the coattails of some popular term/phrase but then get it wrong. Another one is “isomorphic” as in “isomorphic JavaScript” which abuses the term from mathematics to mean something completely unrelated.
- scubbo 3y agoI had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definition was likely to cause confusion.
- shaklee3 3y agoI think they mean idempotent
- scubbo 3y agoWhoops, you're right, I brain farted the wrong word. To be clear, though, they were still wrong. `f(x)=2x` has the property they described of consistently giving the same input for a given input (if you pass in 1, it will always output 2), but it is not idempotent because f(f(x)) does not, in general, equal f(x).
- natch 3y agook I totally get this. Microsoft co-opted “DNS” as “Digital Nervous System” to try to exploit business decision makers’ dim acquaintance with the term. They had a pattern of doing this with other internet acronyms back in the day. Annoying af.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoHe could not resurrect himself. He needed someone in not-ghost form, to collect some special items and perform a magical ritual. Some of the special items were also one-time use iirc. Perhaps, this tool needs to additionally encrypt some of the pieces with the dna of one's father or whatever.
- pottermoreXprt6 3y agoThe point is, this is a very inappropriate project name, if it is to be a reference to the storyline.
- huhtenberg 3y agohttps://www.project-voldemort.com/ https://www.project-voldemort.com/ says Hi.
- CobsonHWABAG 3y ago[dead]