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Re: How I name my apps

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Post by mildweed » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 8:55 PM UTC

chops wrote: post #3

I like to name my apps like classical pieces: App No. 1 in Erlang App No. 2 in Haskell Variations on a theme by Hasbro

In college I had a habit of making sure every app had either the word 'Extreme' or 'Ultimate' in the title. Thankfully I have outgrown this.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by mildweed » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 8:57 PM UTC

I'm working to rename my comedy troupe in a similar fashion. My spidergrams (what I call this type of brainstorming) are very similar.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by Dobbs » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 8:58 PM UTC

felideon wrote: post #18

vikrum wrote: post #10

$ aspell dump master |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `aspell dump master|wc -l`)))p

Too bad zsh caches var expansion. :)

    sh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `cat /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l`)))p'

I don't have aspell installed so 'cat /usr/share/dict/words' in place.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by rizumu » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 8:59 PM UTC

I learned of this technique as clustering in a creative writing course: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/cluster.html And this was the textbook: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Natural-Gabriele-Lusser-Rico/d...

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by richcollins » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 9:49 PM UTC

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ is useful for doing this

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by braco_alva » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 9:58 PM UTC

Dobbs wrote: post #23

felideon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad zsh caches var expansion. :)

sh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `cat /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l`)))p' I don't have aspell installed so 'cat /usr/share/dict/words' in place.

This is actually a good way to go or at least kind of fun for killing some time.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by ma2rten » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 10:15 PM UTC

vikrum wrote: post #10

$ aspell dump master |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `aspell dump master|wc -l`)))p

Man, I got some really exotic words that way. Out of 10 words the only one I knew was bitripartite.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by captaincrowbar » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 10:17 PM UTC

braco_alva wrote: post #26

Dobbs wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words |sed -n $(echo $(($RANDOM % `cat /usr/share/dict/words |wc -l`)))p' I don't have aspell installed so 'cat /usr/share/dict/words' in place.

This is actually a good way to go or at least kind of fun for killing some time.

Problem with this (and probably with the aspell version too, but I can't test that just now): $RANDOM only generates a number from 0 to 32767, but /usr/dict/words has (on my Mac) 235886 words.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by rmc » Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

I have never liked this naming scheme because it makes names that are existing words. This makes it hard to Google.

Re: How I name my apps

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Post by ams6110 » Fri, Sep 02, 2011, 12:24 AM UTC

rmc wrote: post #29

I have never liked this naming scheme because it makes names that are existing words. This makes it hard to Google.

Just tack on "ly". In this case he would name the app "Flintly"