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"It allows you to fail multiple times without changing the product name" Great.
I'm not sure what you think you're saying, but rephrasing the benefit to include the word "fail" does not make it less beneficial.
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
It's hard to recall how many (probably hundreds) of projects (from humble command line utilities to social movements) I have imagined but never started and ultimately forgotten just because I couldn't come up with how to name the file/folder for them. Perhaps some could change my life or the world but now they're lost to oblivion. Guess what's I am doing right now? Googling for a good generator of cool-looking gibber…
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
I would hardly call it irrelevant. The name means “Vodka helps you write creatively”, which is a sentiment Ernest Hemingway would have agreed with.
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
I would hardly call it irrelevant. The name means “Vodka helps you write creatively”, which is a sentiment Ernest Hemingway would have agreed with.
Sometimes text adventure writers will write a full transcript of their game before they code it, but typically there is a large structural and semantic difference between a transcript and a program, so there are some barriers to the translation of transcript -> program. With a tool like this you possibly could remove and/or alter those barriers to enhance the programming process.
I imagine the same method might apply to developing chat bots and the like as well.
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It's smart to have an irrelevant one-word noun name, it gives you the flexibility to pivot your product over time, without being tied to an overly-specific name.
"It allows you to fail multiple times without changing the product name" Great.
and again, and again.... etc.
Of course, you're the "epic" engineer, so I bet you're really good at everything and never fail, right?
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
Your critique can also be aimed at yahoo, google, amazon, and so on. All of those are irrelevant one word nouns.
Go is probably the worst offender, and yet people just search golang and it works fine.
Uhhh, what problem does this solve?
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun. Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
It's hard to recall how many (probably hundreds) of projects (from humble command line utilities to social movements) I have imagined but never started and ultimately forgotten just because I couldn't come up with how to name the file/folder for them. Perhaps some could change my life or the world but now they're lost to oblivion. Guess what's I am doing right now? Googling for a good generator of cool-looking gibber…
curl -s -X POST "https://api.gfycat.com/v1/gfycats" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq .gfyname -r
AchingVengefulDungenesscrab
AgitatedLastingBorzoi
FairImmaculateGelding
WeightyInsistentJellyfish
UnevenHopefulDungbeetle
UntidyWelloffBellfrog
PracticalDismalCat
UnkemptWebbedGreendarnerdragonfly
FaintHauntingFairybluebird
RichPerkyDogfish
MelodicRecentBarracuda
GenerousBronzeBarasinga
QueasyFewHarlequinbug
UnrulyFaintApisdorsatalaboriosa
Looks like it sometimes returns `null` now, which is a shame. It used to be rock solid. It's nice for generating names for your temp files.
I'll admit I don't know how the creator imagines this will be used, but it did suggest an interesting use case to me. Sometimes text adventure writers will write a full transcript of their game before they code it, but typically there is a large structural and semantic difference between a transcript and a program, so there are some barriers to the translation of transcript -> program. With a tool like this you possi…