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A pet peeve of mine is when projects get named after proper nouns from fiction for no reason. A holocron is essentially an encrypted book where you need the for
by dangerwill 2y ago
A pet peeve of mine is when projects get named after proper nouns from fiction for no reason. A holocron is essentially an encrypted book where you need the force to decrypt it. How does that relate to leader elections? It doesn't, it's just being twee
- crlang44 2y agoI think it’s fine, not every name needs to describe some aspect of the underlying project.
- grues-dinner 2y agoI was about to disagree, then I remembered how annoying I find switching between DEs and remembering the weird names they give the various utilities, especially when want to know the process name and the about window just says "File Manager".
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoRich Hickey has a section on using good words, on not using nicknames, in his (as ever wonderful) Clojure Conj 2023 talk Design in Practice, https://youtu.be/c5QF2HjHLSE?t=6m20s https://youtu.be/c5QF2HjHLSE?t=6m20s
- paulddraper 2y agoYou're overthinking it. A holocron is a storage device. --- Would you be peeved by a programming language named after an unrelated BBC comedy series? [1] [1] https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-python https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-...