Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

Post by lambda_obrien » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #46

lambda_obrien wrote: post #36

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How do you think progress is made if not by failing and trying again? 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?

Please don't cross into personal attack in Hacker News comments. We're trying for a different sort of conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Post by mjh2539 » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

todd8 wrote: post #58

qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

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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 propose…