Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by 0_____0 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:49AM
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Meanwhile in hardware we're sitting around with German-esque word trains like Multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC), successive-approximation to digital converter (SAR-ADC), parallel-multidimensional digital signal processing (mD-DSP).
It seems to be the software engineering world, out of all the engineering disciplines, that loves to draw upon fanciful names the most.
I used to troll an old housemate who was in web frontend by making up framework names. "Oh you're using Node.JS? Was talking to someone who's migrating to Polenta, with Shibboleth on the backend." He never did quite catch on.
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:24AM
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The 4kW laser cutter I operate at my regular employment is aptly named by the manufacturer:
The Laser
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:19AM
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You’d have to be pretty quick off the mark to respond with:
Shibboleth? Isn’t that still in private beta?
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by 0_____0 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:33AM
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I realized after a while that any name I made up would invariably be an actual JS package, perhaps even a full fledged framework. Shibboleth is in fact v0.1.4, available via npm. https://www.npmjs.com/package/shibboleth
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:38AM
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Baaaaahaha
0_____0‘s Law of Software Framework Names
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by catalogia on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:25AM
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> Venom - all terrain quadruped - snakes are all terrain?
More like a [venomous] spider than a snake I think.
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:58AM
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Obvious now you point it out.
Re:Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
by smokelegend on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:19PM
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"Naming things is hard. Naming things that didn't exist last week must be even harder!"
Indeed, this is not something many people appreciate...
Salute!
Heh, I guess you’re right. I’m certainly no better at naming things.
My recent personal projects seem to be named of fictional characters - I’m not sure why Ollie, from The Thick of It, reminded me of Python error handling, but that is now the name of a class that un-catches exceptions, so you can handle them yourself, like an anti-fuckitpy.
I think a lot of the SV/YC/"Startup" things deliberately choose nonsense names because it will make it "easier to pivot" when they decide that actually AI middleware for generating Hawaiian shirt patterns is a dead end and they should be making a cloud service for taco recipes instead.
Bear - minimal blogging platform - it's a play on bare
Venom - all terrain quadruped - snakes are all terrain?
Zoox - self-driving-car tech - half the other self-driving-car companies have nonsense names
Facebook - I still find this a smart name for the service
Looking Glass - 3D display - confused me for a second with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_server
Surfboard - audio feature extraction using ML - nonsense name
Plywood - cross-platform C++ framework - nonsense name, okay I sort of get it
I work in the steel fabrication / construction industry, so the material / construction technology related names catch my attention a lot and I wonder about them.
Naming things is hard. Naming things that didn't exist last week must be even harder!