Hehe - Xobni recruiting video

Re:Hehe - Xobni recruiting video by mhartl on Monday October 01, 2007 @08:11PM (#61840)

I'm confused: why put a line over the 'o' in 'Xobni', indicating a long vowel, and then proceed to pronounce it 'Zahbnee'?

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Re:Hehe - Xobni recruiting video by brezina on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @12:21AM (#61944)

yeah, sorry about that. we use to pronounce it with a long o, but most people would pronounce it 'zahbnee' so we changed the pronunciation. However, we didn't want to change our little mascot dude or the logo. Even in a 1 1/2 year old startup we have legacy. weird.

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Re:Hehe - Xobni recruiting video by mhartl on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @01:33PM (#62103)

Thanks for the clarification.

At RailsConf 2007, David Heinemeier Hansson started a sentence with something like "If you have---I can't believe I'm saying this---a legacy Rails app..."

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Re:Hehe - Xobni recruiting video by wensing on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @10:49AM (#62033)

I like the long o version better, myself. Zahbnee sounds a lot like zombie. Probably not the best association . . .

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