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When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by mncolinlee »

pistoriusp wrote: post #10
augustl wrote: post #5

I think many of you in the Hacker News crowd will recognize this problem that I'm yet to find a solution to myself: mkdir [blinking cursor] Then 30 minutes passes and you didn't end up making that thing anyway since you got distracted while thinking up a name for it.

I always start with a codename. And for the longest time I've used the surnames of foreign scientists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_scientists

You'll never run out of microbrew beers. I mean for naming. I do run out of the real thing while coding.

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by ry0ohki »

nostromo wrote: post #19
pistoriusp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always start with a codename. And for the longest time I've used the surnames of foreign scientists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_scientists

We use Pokemon. The reason? Nobody gets too attached to the name Jigglypuff.

I guess you haven't seen this... http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by lgg »

stuaxo wrote: post #40

"We could ship a browser in a year" he missed the second part "thanks to work done on kHTML which we based it on"

In the context of the story that is irrelevant, and it is actually not correct. Don Melton started at Apple in the summer of 2001 (the same day I did). At the time of this story they had already been working on Safari for over a year, the point was that in that meeting they realized that Alexander was less than an additional 6 months away from shipping.

Not to discount the work of the kHTML guys, but it was more than a year of work to get from kHTML to Webkit.

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by habitue »

eridius wrote: post #140
McP wrote: post #137

It was a poor choice of name in that it gives no hint as to what the application might actually do. While on holiday and in need of some internet, a (highly intelligent) friend searched around the local town and could only found a Mac in a hotel lobby. Despite being very motivated she was unable to persuade it to open a browser and eventually gave up and was left wondering how Macs could possibly be described as intu…

And "Firefox" and "Chrome" are sensible names?

Ah, now "Internet Explorer" there's a name! What does it do? Explores the Internet of course!

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by emehrkay »

natem345 wrote: post #124
emehrkay wrote: post #110

I feel like I am pretty good at naming things (I dont think about it for too long, if that matters). Describe to me a product and I'll name it for you.

An app that lets your remotely control monitor on/off & sleep/hibernate/shutdown/wake your PC.

remote.tt or control.it [kontrol|qontrol]

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by emehrkay »

leonsp wrote: post #135
emehrkay wrote: post #110

I feel like I am pretty good at naming things (I dont think about it for too long, if that matters). Describe to me a product and I'll name it for you.

A thingie that's mostly white with a blinking stick on it where if you hit the keyboard letters show up, and you can make some letters thicker and some slanted in a weird way.

Minder

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by happimess »

bluesmoon wrote: post #132

I always thought it came from the Hindi word Safari, which translates to Traveller or Explorer (Safar is a Journey). I personally codename my projects pffft.

According to etymonline[1], it comes from Arabic through Swahili.

[1]http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&s...

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by heyitsnick »

HornThisWay wrote: post #106
SimHacker wrote: post #44

At Maxis, we didn't arrive at the totally obvious name The Sims until very late in development. At first there was the secret development name, Project X, but everybody had a Project X, and we certainly couldn't ship with that. Then there was Jamie's obvious name, Dollhouse, which was quite descriptive, but boys would hate it. Then there was Will's quirky name, Super Happy Friends Home, which only the Japanese would…

Were you going to call it "The Buds"? I don't think that's a very good name, but if I was high, I'd probably think it was perfect.

I have no connection to this in any way. Yet i'm extremely confident that was exactly it.

Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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Post by eridius »

habitue wrote: post #144
eridius wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And "Firefox" and "Chrome" are sensible names?

Ah, now "Internet Explorer" there's a name! What does it do? Explores the Internet of course!

I still have a fondness for the name "Netscape Navigator". It seems a shame that we never started using the term "netscape" to refer to the internet.
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