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Sepsis? That's a pretty off-putting name that I can't imagine will help you. Any reason you named it after such a grim life-threatening condition?
by duncanawoods 11y ago
Sepsis? That's a pretty off-putting name that I can't imagine will help you. Any reason you named it after such a grim life-threatening condition?
- carussell 11y agoYes. It's a project codename, not a serious attempt at coming up with a name fit for mass consumption. It's not supposed to help with anything but one thing: to be able to unambiguously refer to the project even in the pre-release phase. Using "sepsis" follows the policy that project codenames shall be patterned after unappealing medical phenomena (e.g., staph, polyp, varicose, etc). There are two reasons for this: These kinds of ugly names are unusable from a marketing standpoint, so there’s a vanishingly small chance of collision with anything else. They’re also a constant reminder of the fact that the codename is just a codename; it totally eliminates the risk of anyone ever looking at it during the actual research and naming phase and lazily suggesting, "Hey, let’s just go with that."
- davidy123 11y agoSo if someone knows someone who's affected by one of your life threatening conditions, they can just stay out of the project. It's all about the macho core contributors. Who overthink things (is collision really such a problem? is "marketing" really that likely to run with some random name, and why is that a problem?) and continue to make obscure projects without diverse participants. Is that also part of the logic?
- carussell 11y agoThis is the most presumptuous and mean-spirited comment I've ever received not just on HN, but in my entire history of being online. No exaggeration. But to go ahead and answer your disingenuous question anyway, no. That is not the idea.