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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

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Re: Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

#11
"We were able to get recurse.com, which is short, pronounceable, and easy to spell."

And so many businesses end up with names because of this. I feel them on this. Everyone sitting around, throwing out their ideas for names, someone at their laptop checking domain registrations at the same time till something sticks.

Re: Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

#14
post #5

Frankly, I'm still confused about what "recurse center" means even though I know what recursion is. I wonder what it will first mean to people outside of industry. I also can't unsee the substring "curse center". :/ Slightly off-topic: How would someone structure a study to predict the effectiveness of a rebranding?

In my technical writing class in college, the professor made the point that "recursion" is based on the verb "to recur", and that "to recurse" means "to curse again".

> "to recurse" means "to curse again"

If that doesn't sound like programming, I don't know what does.

Re: Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

#16
I love Hacker School (the entity, not the name) but Recurse Center is a strange choice. "Recurse" does not bring to mind the word "recursion" by itself, and while "School" is a meaningful word, "Center" isn't. It has no umph as a phrase. The reason for the change is completely sound, but the new name is just a little strange to me.

Re: Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

#17
post #12

My brain jumped to "curse" and "legal recourse," not "recursion." And I'm a software developer. Hacker School seems fine. I think you guys are over thinking it.

As they mentioned in the post, the name was clearly causing problems for their students. Prospective, current and alum.

Re: Hacker School is now the Recurse Center

#18
post #12

My brain jumped to "curse" and "legal recourse," not "recursion." And I'm a software developer. Hacker School seems fine. I think you guys are over thinking it.

They seemed to have specific issues with "hacker". Though I agree "recurse" sounds like some kind of repeated curse.
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