Tuesday, December 5, 2006

jll:

Why don't you just name the project and list yourself as the [project name] Team. I've seen several open source projects eventually piss off the owner so much that they refuse to work on it anymore. (Or they start raking in so much dough that they don't think it is worth their valuable time anymore.) Then somebody starts up a [project name] Team to take over and the licensing and support get all screwed up. Just assume that it will be wildly popular but piss you off to no end so you will eventually abandon it, and figure out the name of the group who should take over. Name it that.


nw:

This is a remarkably lucid analysis. Here I'd been thinking of picking a name I wanted to keep, but really I should be picking a name that I feel most comfortable drunkenly cursing.

Incisive.


jll:

I find it hard to believe that you would find any name uncomfortable to drunkenly curse. You could name it after an ex.


gibo:

Au contraire, some names are definitely better than others for drunkenly cursing. For instance, drunkenly curse anyone named "Tiffany" or "Britney" and you look like a fool for caring in the first place. Drunkenly curse somebody named "Vauldevarre" and bam, you're the person who gets killed in the next fifteen minutes of a Vampire Hunter D anime. ("DAMN YOU VAULDEVARRE!!!" *slice*) Names are actually absolutely crucial for contextualizing drunken cursing. My rule of thumb is to never drunkenly curse any name that sounds like it belongs to a porn star, or which Japanese people might consider Goth.

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