It's an old one, but I still think of it every time someone is trying to come up with an acronym: http://dilbert.com/fast/1993-06-23/
Ask HN: Anyone have process for creating good internal application names?
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#22Our company is a Greek word so we tend to use Greek names/words.
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#23One syllable, funny-sounding abbreviations. When an entire org is saying, writing, dreaming about the same thing -- make it memorable, efficient and as fun as it can be.
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#24I was a 'corporate giant' a number of years ago and developing internal applications, and I always made a point of naming my applications with absolutely ridiculous names. A script for calculating the rate of employee attrition (voluntary departure) in Human Resources was named the "Quantitative Attrition Calculator" or "QuAC" for short. The icon was a duck. I always had a laugh when they said the name - some got the…
I once named a deployment system "Parachute".
Because, as with a parachute... we were f*cked if it didn't deploy properly.
A tenuous link, but we still laugh about it now. And because of that, you would never forget what it actually does.
I can't believe no body has made this quote yet either...
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton
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#25I've used Star Wars planet names for quite a while, they sound good and most of them are pretty easy to remember. You should check Wikipedia's list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_(C%E2...
So did Mozilla when they came out with "Bespin" as in the "Cloud" city. Ah... so witty... immediately every Star Wars geek knew what they were doing.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone have process for creating good internal application names?
#26I was a 'corporate giant' a number of years ago and developing internal applications, and I always made a point of naming my applications with absolutely ridiculous names. A script for calculating the rate of employee attrition (voluntary departure) in Human Resources was named the "Quantitative Attrition Calculator" or "QuAC" for short. The icon was a duck. I always had a laugh when they said the name - some got the…
Anyone pronounce CRMI as "crummy"?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone have process for creating good internal application names?
#27Muppets. Current major app being worked on is called "Statler". There's probably a "Waldorf" coming up as well in the future.