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Ok - nice functionality, but why is it called Omellete exactly? Am I the only one that is getting tired of projects whose names mean nothing? Cucumber anyone?

fka 13y ago
It's just a name. I'm not good at finding cool names for projects. :( And "complete" is reserved in NPM. Nightly name. :)
- jwoah12 13y ago
  I thought it might've been because omelette is a pain in the ass to spell. In fact I could've used an auto-complete when typing this comment.
  - arscan 13y ago
    Hah, I like that concept. If the author is interested in renaming, there are a lot of ones here that would make good names for this project: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings Though its probably a bit too late for that now ;-)
    - mlader 13y ago
      How about dyslexia? :)
- bdcravens 13y ago
  How about "cli-completion"? You don't need a "cool name"; you need to communicate clearly. Code communicates. Think spoken language. There's a reason why street slang suggests (wrongly or not) that the speaker is less educated.
colkassad 13y ago
Just be glad he took it before someone came along with omellete.ly, a new service that brings social to commandline arguments. On a serious note, I think it's a smart move to use a name like this, or something like Carrotjuice.js or MochaDB. Names are important and so are the trends that accompany them.
tehwebguy 13y ago
My assumption was a pun, "I'm a let you finish => "Omelet you finish"
- fka 13y ago
  Wow that's cool! :)
bdcravens 13y ago
I'll accept (begrudgingly so) cutesy names. I take issue with simple nouns that could be an obvious thing but are taken by another project because they're easy to remember. Example: "bingo" Node module. I was thinking of building a simple Bingo game app using Socket.IO, and creating a module that lets it be included in an app. The name is already taken, by a module for .. testing function calls. May be a great project, but how is "bingo" better than "function-introspection". Modules names are pretty much domain squatting. Next language that comes out with a module system I should grab names like "database" and make the modules randomly post obscenities to Twitter or something equally unrelated.
georgefox 13y ago
Reminds me of http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+on http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+o...: > Some bug had popped up in this program and the guy assigned to fix it had come back alternatively laughing and crying babbling nonsense about ‘pizzas calling hamburgers and passing booze’.... The software this guy left behind did not have any logic bombs or other nasty tricks in it, it compiled just fine, and besides that one bug it seemed to work fine as well. Imagine this though: every function and variable name in the program was named after food.

fka 13y ago

It's just a name. I'm not good at finding cool names for projects. :( And "complete" is reserved in NPM. Nightly name. :)

jwoah12 13y ago
I thought it might've been because omelette is a pain in the ass to spell. In fact I could've used an auto-complete when typing this comment.
- arscan 13y ago
  Hah, I like that concept. If the author is interested in renaming, there are a lot of ones here that would make good names for this project: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/common-misspellings Though its probably a bit too late for that now ;-)
  - mlader 13y ago
    How about dyslexia? :)
bdcravens 13y ago
How about "cli-completion"? You don't need a "cool name"; you need to communicate clearly. Code communicates. Think spoken language. There's a reason why street slang suggests (wrongly or not) that the speaker is less educated.

colkassad 13y ago

Just be glad he took it before someone came along with omellete.ly, a new service that brings social to commandline arguments. On a serious note, I think it's a smart move to use a name like this, or something like Carrotjuice.js or MochaDB. Names are important and so are the trends that accompany them.

tehwebguy 13y ago

My assumption was a pun, "I'm a let you finish => "Omelet you finish"

fka 13y ago
Wow that's cool! :)

bdcravens 13y ago

I'll accept (begrudgingly so) cutesy names. I take issue with simple nouns that could be an obvious thing but are taken by another project because they're easy to remember. Example: "bingo" Node module. I was thinking of building a simple Bingo game app using Socket.IO, and creating a module that lets it be included in an app. The name is already taken, by a module for .. testing function calls. May be a great project, but how is "bingo" better than "function-introspection". Modules names are pretty much domain squatting. Next language that comes out with a module system I should grab names like "database" and make the modules randomly post obscenities to Twitter or something equally unrelated.

georgefox 13y ago

Reminds me of http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+on http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+o...: > Some bug had popped up in this program and the guy assigned to fix it had come back alternatively laughing and crying babbling nonsense about ‘pizzas calling hamburgers and passing booze’.... The software this guy left behind did not have any logic bombs or other nasty tricks in it, it compiled just fine, and besides that one bug it seemed to work fine as well. Imagine this though: every function and variable name in the program was named after food.