Ancient powerful or mythical cities here. ElDorado, Hamunaptra, Babylon, etc.
When I first heard the name "Safari"
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Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#62I always assumed it was a reference to "Surfin' Safari", the Beach Boys song. Maybe not.
That name is used on the WebKit blog - https://www.webkit.org/blog/
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#63“Please don’t let us name the browser after a feminine hygiene product!” Ironic that this was a concern, given the later iPad
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Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, and naming things.
And off-by-one errors.
Off-by-one errors only affect good programmers. Otherwise you just add enough of such errors that all the under- and over-summing cancels out.
7 years ago, when I was a new programmer, I did use a technique like that to fix some JavaScript. I feel brave confessing that.
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#65I 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 usually start projects on github, and allow the random name chooser to make that decision for me..
"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about drunken-nemesis."Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#66I 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
I pick hostnames from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#67IBrowse would have been a bad choice. There is an Amiga OS Browser which goes by that name, and it is a little bit older than Safari.
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#68I 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.
LittleBigPlanet, our PS3 game, was (is) called 'ps3test1'. the sequel, LBP2, is... also called ps3test1.
that project really was our first attempt to bring up a devkit, probably with a rotating cube.
the project, and compiled output, on every platform, is called 'pc.elf' (or .vcproj or .exe or whatever) SIGH
there's an inverse correlation between awesome-ness of directory name and chance-of-shipping, in my experience.
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#69I 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
To take the head-scratching out of the start of a project, and to give apps personality, we use surnames of film directors.
Re: When I first heard the name "Safari"
#70Earlier 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
Norse gods here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_gods
Having to type in Gerðr or Þrúðr would get old pretty fast. ;)