Re:My experiences on a one month startup
by bootload on Sunday August 03, 2008 @07:40PM
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"... it would be really cool to have a cute/humorous story to explain the name (and the business), so that someone mentioning the name would be asked to explain it, and get to pass on an interesting story. eg. Ycombinator. Easy for me to suggest - but coming up with such a story is harder. :-) ..."
A parent company that creates other companies as its namesake suggests ... "a higher-order function which computes a fixed point of other functions" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator