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Re: Naming Things

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Post by sejje »

jeessy wrote: post #18
bbrks wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even after visiting your website, I have no idea what Office Garden actually is or does. Maybe I'll find out if I enter my e-mail address into your form... But then again, maybe not, and my email would end up on yet another list I don't want.

Well you're right, it's still in private beta so I didn't put much information about it on the homepage. Office Garden is a platform where employees from the same company get to know each other, have fun and share their interests. We deeply believe that happy employees build more successful businesses.

At most of my jobs, I'd have been happier if I didn't know my co-workers.

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Post by seagrass »

hfsktr wrote: post #14
8ig8 wrote: post #10

When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it was frustrating finding relevant results. How do I "insert page numbers in Pages"? How do I "round down in Numbers"? Edit: I guess "Word" is not much better.

With Word and the like you can put 'ms' in front at least. The biggest issue I have when searching (for things I don't know the proper name for) is when punctuation is part of the search. Even with quotes it seems to ignore question marks and exclamation points and it feels really unnatural to type 'exclamation exclamation' for a search.

Web search for programmers:

http://www.symbolhound.com/

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Post by LukeShu »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #9

So. Many. Bad. Names. The whole Travis/Jenkins/Hudson thing baffles me. Yes, they're all butlers. I can never remember which one is which. And since I'm English, butlers represent the worst of the old, deferential world, the world I spend half my life fighting against... and that's precisely why IMHO they're unsuitable names for anything open-source. "therubyracer". It's something to do with Ruby. It's presumably qui…

"therubyracer" is a pun; if you know that it is a wrapper around "V8", which can refer to a car engine, it is easy enough to remember.

Re: Naming Things

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Post by rbritton »

8ig8 wrote: post #10

When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it was frustrating finding relevant results. How do I "insert page numbers in Pages"? How do I "round down in Numbers"? Edit: I guess "Word" is not much better.

Prefixing the application's name has usually helped in my searches. For example, "round down in apple numbers". Smaller scale applications I've had more trouble with though: almost any search for help with Sketch returns a ton of results for SketchUp.

Re: Naming Things

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Post by 8ig8 »

rbritton wrote: post #25
8ig8 wrote: post #10

When I switched away from MS Office apps to Apple's equivalents, it was such a pain googling for help in "Numbers" and "Pages". The app names are so generic it was frustrating finding relevant results. How do I "insert page numbers in Pages"? How do I "round down in Numbers"? Edit: I guess "Word" is not much better.

Prefixing the application's name has usually helped in my searches. For example, "round down in apple numbers". Smaller scale applications I've had more trouble with though: almost any search for help with Sketch returns a ton of results for SketchUp.

Coincidently, I was investigating Sketch last week. I ran into the same issue. I ended up using "Sketch App" in my queries with mixed results. Similar to your suggestion, I also tried tacking on "Bohemian" -- as in Bohemian Coding -- the app's developers.
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