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might be a good project, but with that type of name, you're not going to attract customers outside the US, a good fraction of which will think drone => drone st
by bachback 13y ago
might be a good project, but with that type of name, you're not going to attract customers outside the US, a good fraction of which will think drone => drone strike. the name is reserved for killer machines, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Pakistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Pakist.... Time to think about how silicon valley fits in with the rest of the world.
- kmfrk 13y agoIt's a perfectly fine word: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=drone%2C+drones&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdrone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdrones%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=drone%2C+drone....
- bachback 13y agoif you are an ignorant, unethical person in the US maybe, but not if you live in Yemen or Pakistan. its such a perfect illustration of how blind people can be. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-drone-strikes-stirring-outrage-in-yemen/2014/02/07/1bd5768a-900c-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_gallery.html#photo=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-drone-strikes-stirrin...
- weego 13y agoThis is literally the most surreal chain of comments I have ever read on HN. The word drone is not 'reserved' for anything and the rest of your attempted call to action is just bizzare.
- patrickaljord 13y agoAre you serious or are you just trying to write the most caricatural HN comment? Besides, I doubt this is targeted (pun intended) at people living in remote areas of Yemen or Pakistan that are typically the target of military drones.
- bachback 13y agowell, I guess you're an US citizen. so you will not understand, because you're living in a bubble. and your derogative answer just shows what a person you are. perhaps I'm in Yemen and my friend was killed in a drone. how can you dare making such comments?
- patrickaljord 13y agoI'm French, born in Paris from a Dutch mom and a Syrian dad. Lived part of my childhood in Syria, France and then years in Peru where my wife's from. What were you saying again?
- bachback 13y agoget some ethics? making jokes about drone killings is disgusting.
- patrickaljord 13y agowhat joke? You really need to chill out and stop lecturing people. What are you, 12?
- prottmann 13y agoOh no, 7 Billion people on this planet and they forgot the meaning of "drone" for Yemen or Pakistan, the greatest IT nations on the planet ;-)
- teh_klev 13y agoBy that somewhat twisted logic bee keepers better start changing their terminology as well [1]. I'm a European and didn't even make the connection, despite being well informed and up-to-date about the state of affairs in Pakistan and elsewhere that US and friends choose to fly these machines. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)
- bradrydzewski 13y agowe bought the drone.io domain name back before Drones were all over the news. We thought this definition of Drone, "a unit which takes commands from a primary source" made sense for a cloud-based CI solution.
- pekk 13y agoIt does make sense, but of course you can expect this useless line of comment to follow you around because certain people want to make everything about politics.
- derefr 13y agoI would suggest making your logo evocative of the entomological meaning (e.g. a bee, ant, etc.), if you want to dispel that somewhat.
- bradrydzewski 13y agothat's a great suggestion. a robotic bee could be awesome
- ericgj 13y agoFollow you around like a drone eh? Look, we're not the ones who politicized the term. A robotic bee mascot is not going to put off people's discomfort. Which is unfortunate because it looks like a really promising tool for CI... cf. "The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program", published yesterday... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-ns...