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Colin

I suggest when naming a project:

- Don't call it Mercury, everyone has used that name before.
- Don't call it Phoenix, people will laugh when nothing rises from the ashes.
- Use a clear, honest description of what it will do.
- Don't be too honest, Project Run Over Budget And Get Cancelled is hard to get funded

27 August at 11:03 | Open on eigenmagic.net
11 comments
cos

@abstractcode Don’t call it “Shinkansen”, because it won’t be as fast as you think.

27 August at 11:41 | Open on aus.social
nonspecialist

@cos @abstractcode don’t call it “Gandalf”; it’s not magic and you surely will not pass

27 August at 21:52 | Open on aus.social
David Ingram 😷🌻🍍

@abstractcode So when I worked on a proposal for a project called Phoenix that used a message processing system called Mercury we were doomed?

27 August at 12:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Colin

@ingram Well I haven’t seen every Phoenix project but odds are good.

27 August at 14:03 | Open on eigenmagic.net
Jamie Booth
Gaurav Vaidya

@abstractcode The golden rule of naming things is to never, ever, ever, EVER name anything "Euler".

27 August at 22:55 | Open on hachyderm.io
Tim Hergert

@abstractcode Call it Project Candiru because the visualization of that adventurous little fish and the pain that it can cause is an apt metaphor for this entire cursed boondoggle

27 August at 22:59 | Open on infosec.exchange
Athena L.M.

@abstractcode ran over its budget of $0 and got cancelled as soon as someone saw the name

27 August at 23:00 | Open on solarpunk.moe
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