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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by tayo42 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:35PM (#29299451)
I can't pick a side on this. I agree with you in general but also it's nice to be reminded that there's a human and personal element to things sometimes. I normally name what ever I'm working on to be clear and boring though.
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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by chrsig on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:33PM (#29299965)
I understand the distaste for the stiffness of descriptive names...but I've found that over time trying to explain why a project has a clever name, or what it really does, to be quite arduous.

And usually not too long after I've coined a fun name for a project, I wind up feeling like it's cringy, and start to loathe when other people talk about it.

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