Re:Naming Things
by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @07:37AM
(#6920748)
So. Many. Bad. Names.
The whole Travis/Jenkins/Hudson thing baffles me. Yes, they're all butlers. I can never remember which one is which. And since I'm English, butlers represent the worst of the old, deferential world, the world I spend half my life fighting against... and that's precisely why IMHO they're unsuitable names for anything open-source.
"therubyracer". It's something to do with Ruby. It's presumably quite fast. This isn't telling me much.
But then, I've released a fair amount of shockingly badly named stuff myself, so I should stop here. Other than to improve on the quote that begins TFA:
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
The whole Travis/Jenkins/Hudson thing baffles me. Yes, they're all butlers. I can never remember which one is which. And since I'm English, butlers represent the worst of the old, deferential world, the world I spend half my life fighting against... and that's precisely why IMHO they're unsuitable names for anything open-source.
"therubyracer". It's something to do with Ruby. It's presumably quite fast. This isn't telling me much.
But then, I've released a fair amount of shockingly badly named stuff myself, so I should stop here. Other than to improve on the quote that begins TFA:
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."