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nan0 May 29

Griechische Mythologie nervt.

Nie gibt es die richtigen Göttinnen für die Dinge die ich benennen will 😡

#namingThingsIsHard

IBBoard May 10

Can't believe I got phishing from IT Iffy Consultants.

Even if it had been spam rather than phishing, would you really want to hire iffy consultants? 😆

(They might be trendy Apple-style "i-Tiffy Consultants" - whatever a "tiffy" is - but that's just asking for it, like being penisland.com or expertsexchange.com or whorepresents.com)

#NamingThingsIsHard

Jeff Forcier Mar 15

/I'm/ not doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames, /you're/ doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames!!! 😝

#Naming #NamingOfThings #NamingThingsIsHard #HardestProblemInComputerScience #Hostname #Hostnames #ComputerNames #E_TOOMANYHASHTAGS

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Stefan Gast Feb 23

For those interested: That's from the AMD Geode LX Processor Data Book. In the version from February 2009 (with Publication ID 33234H, as visible in the original post), these show up on page 84.

#namingThingsIsHard

N-gated Hacker News Feb 21

🚀 "Naming things is hard," said every programmer ever, while busily counting imaginary unicorns named 'Index', 'Count', 'Offset', and 'Size'. 🦄 Apparently, the latest breakthrough in computer science is realizing that typos are bugs and not a new feature. 🤔 #RevolutionaryCodingInsights
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/ #NamingThingsIsHard #ProgrammingHumor #TyposAreBugs #ComputerScience #InsightsInCoding #HackerNews #ngated

Index, Count, Offset, Size

Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things.

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satire Jan 25

@RueNahcMohr I give that 555 stars.

#humor #TTL #namingThingsisHard #marketingVsEngineers

Sean Hood Jan 20

What's a shorter way to describe: "Outside humidity if it were at inside temperature"

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I have a helper sensor in HomeAssistant which calculates this, but #NamingThingsIsHard

Henry Jun 28, 2025

I picked up a cheap little second hand laptop today that I want to turn into my 'travel' laptop, after browsers have become unusable on the old one (which only had 2GB RAM).

Now I have two hard choices:
- What should it be called?
- Which OS to install?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD #NamingThingsIsHard