91–100 of 156 posts
This gets posted once in a while and I always, without fail, think of Ginsburg. Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Yeah, I literally heard that line in my head immediately after reading the title of this post. What else are we supposed to think of?
This should work nicely with Google Behemoth and Facebook Beelzebub
The amount of professional-grade hand-wringing virtue-signaling in this comment section makes me feel ill. Why get bent out of shape over the name of a software project? It's virtually a meaningless factor in day-to-day life. What about hearing phrases "Sacrificing a Chicken to Moloch," the "spirit cooking" culture and related symbolism rampant in elite political circles? Shouldn't we be more interested in that? Lots…
excuse me...w-what?
According to my sources, DARPA wasn't involved in any of the child sacrifices, but they might use Moloch to help secure their networks.
interesting. didn't realize till now that .ch was a TLD for switzerland!
This gets posted once in a while and I always, without fail, think of Ginsburg. Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
And whenever anything here reminds me of Ginsberg, I always, without fail, remember: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher
Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" starts with the line:
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
Pardon my ignorance - Is this the same AOL as America Online?
Names change. The common theme: names are not easy, sometimes they are beloved brands, sometimes they fall out of favor. Sometimes they were just bad ideas from the start, but happened anyway.
This gives rise to an interesting challenge for open source projects when you have an open source project in a github org, and the name of your company changes (or your company gets acquired), should you move the project? The problem is real since you don't want to lose your community, but you don't want to be stuck in the past.