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what's up with unicorns anyway ? i dont get it. Did i miss a reference to something ?

• jbrooksuk 13y ago
  Brony reference perhaps?
  • lmm 13y ago
    Doesn't look very MLP-ish in expression. I'd suspect the Invisible Pink Unicorn, except that this one's, well, visible. Perhaps a Robot Unicorn Attack reference?
    • jbrooksuk 13y ago
      Maybe it's the Unicorn instances running on their servers?
• evilduck 13y ago
  Github likely uses it because: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ Why that project chose the name unicorn is another question though.
  • benwoody 13y ago
    Yep! And here is a blog post on how Github uses Unicorns: https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
• mdisraeli 13y ago
  As the above link (http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png) shows, they display a picture of a unicorn on their error pages. I wouldn't ready any more into it than I'd read into a rabbit with pancakes on it's head (http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg)
• frugalfirbolg 13y ago
  Not sure, but I thought when I looked at the charts that the spikes to higher latency and exception rates looked like unicorn horns poking over the horizon.
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• afarrell 13y ago
  Perhaps they are Scottish? The unicorn is a national animal of Scotland.
  • lotsofcows 13y ago
    Well, it's on the coat of arms. I suspect if you asked the average Scot what the national animal was they'd say Golden Eagle or Stag.