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Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
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Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching "Vodka coding environment" works fine. "Vodka coding" also works fine. Both of those show this project in the top results. 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.
"Yahoo" is nonsense, I agree; "google" is relevant in the sense that they index a lot of websites; 'amazon' hearkens to the myriad variety of different books they sold.
And here I thought "Amazon" referred to all the trees that had to get cut down to make those cardboard boxes they use for shipping... ;)
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#53If 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.
Hm. I guess that means the Windows project is doomed. Good to know.
Although in fairness Windows described some of its functionality. Whereas Apple on the other hand...
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Try this: curl -s -X POST "https://api.gfycat.com/v1/gfycats" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq .gfyname -r I call it "gfyname" and stick it in ~/bin. Then you can do `while true; do gfyname; done` AchingVengefulDungenesscrab AgitatedLastingBorzoi FairImmaculateGelding WeightyInsistentJellyfish UnevenHopefulDungbeetle UntidyWelloffBellfrog PracticalDismalCat UnkemptWebbedGreendarnerdragonfly FaintHauntingFairy…
Thanks. The names themselves are a little too long but seem a good source of what to start with. E.g. I would take UntidyWelloffBellfrog and remove parts of it to get Udyber or Tyllog. Somewhat sad fact: neither of these semi-random letter combinations actually is not an existing word - googling them yields quite a long list of occurrences. And there even is a GitHub user named Bellfrog already.
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching "Vodka coding environment" works fine. "Vodka coding" also works fine. Both of those show this project in the top results. 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.
"Yahoo" is nonsense, I agree; "google" is relevant in the sense that they index a lot of websites; 'amazon' hearkens to the myriad variety of different books they sold.
Yahoo is not nonsense - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yahoo
google is nonsense as it's a misspelling of googol
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#56If 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 think that you might overthinking the titles. If you let go for a moment, often you notice that there's some point to a seemingly random name. In this case I take it as a jest about the influence of hard alcohol on creativity and writing.
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#57If 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 think that you might overthinking the titles. If you let go for a moment, often you notice that there's some point to a seemingly random name. In this case I take it as a jest about the influence of hard alcohol on creativity and writing.
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Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#58If 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…
Five of us were investigating starting a company together. After a few meetings, the issue of a name came up and we arranged for a face-to-face meeting to brainstorm.
I didn’t want a name like, System Administration Software Inc because what would we do if we ended up writing software for garage door openers.
I suggested picking a catchy name that wouldn’t identify what we made too narrowly.
Among the names I proposed that I still remember over 30 years later were Apache and Emerald City Software; someone else proposed Veritas. None of these were unanimously liked by the group. I then recalled a unique hostname used by a friend and suggested Tivoli, everyone liked it and the name is still used today.
There was one wrinkle, when I went to the state’s Attorney General’s office to register the name for incorporation, I discovered that there was already a Tivoli Inc in Texas. (I didn’t realize that there was a small town in Texas by the name Tivoli.) So I tacked on another word and the company’s new name became Tivoli Systems.
Out of the original group, only two of us actually started the company. We quit our jobs and went all in.
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#59If 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 don't think you're completely wrong but, taken to the extreme and applied to all products and companies, your policy would lead to a world where the field of computing would be full of sentences like "Are you using the Jobs-Wozniak Computer Company Web Browser or the Gates Software Corporation Web Browser?".
And that might be a bit much.
Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
#60I love the commit messages ... > several changes > too many changes to list > did a bunch of updates to the test framework
I like them too. Seeing commit messages like this makes me feel a bit better about publishing my own repositories (which are invariably full of cursing and commit messages which are not descriptive) without doing significant history edits and rewriting most of it. Having to sanitise everything to conform to the meme of perfect descriptiveness is about 40% of what stops me from doing so in most cases, with another 40% being the name.