Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time code runs past your death

Posted by _virtu on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I've thought that it would be fun to give a name to the length of time that your code outlives you. What name would you give to this idea?

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Re:Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time co... by AlDante2 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:14AM (#23829061)

Inheritance springs to mind, although it's semantically backwards.

I like instantiation time.

Or, to take a non-tech word, how about spoor? You can lose tracks after time, they can be more or less clearly defined and they have a lot of metaphorical associations.

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Re:Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time co... by specialbat on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:54PM (#23828362)

Posthumous execution?

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Re:Ask HN: What term would you use for the amount of time co... by aminozuur on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:40PM (#23828265)

Post mortem runtime.

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