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we’re looking for a sneerious name for a collaborative design/programming community for non-dickheads, like hacker news but not shit. thread your suggestions here!
I'm feeling uncreative but it's a shame giggle academy is taken
"painter news" could be a nice jab at PG's "Hackers & Painters"
"Cathedral Central"
"bikeshed painters club" comes to mind, but probably also too long
ooh i like "bikeshed painting" or variants
"bikeshed systems" maybe? nicely memorable (and matches pattern of current tld) too
we don't want to mislead the actual painters
I would gladly take any number of actual painters over some of the programmers I've had to deal with contributing to open source projects
Oh are you looking for an open source contributor? I heard about this great helpful guy, Jia, he’s looking for a new project this week. Heard had some really novel ways of really seeing into your product…
oh I've heard of that dev - apparently they really like to focus on areas with wide impact! just the sort of dev you want in your team!
has very helpful friends too
speaking of networks, I saw this yesterday and it sure gave me some feelings
The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on "Building 20" that conveys a "but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture" kind of message.
“MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey
e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with
So, Harvey Mudd?
Now I hope all the dumb MIT subculture jokes actually exist on student forums, where they belong. Because I can't stop thinking of them now that you've got me started.
* Stata because none of our angles will be right angles.
* Course Six Sigma
* Infinite Sneeridor
Oh god I have to stop before I get to all the "Beaver" jokes.
Six Double Oh Eww
I originally wanted "freeasinbothpieces", which sums up the idea precisely, but five words is a bit much even with camel case
That could be the hostname for the forge instance(s)
Or the backups
"Demolishing 20"
Einstürzende Zwanzig
The Margaret Hamilton Society
Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that's calling NASA Hamilton a witch.
Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.
the more I think about it, the more I like this one too
hibste.rs
("runk" and "GNU/Scrotum" are right out)
runk sounds it would be the name of a rust variant of troff
Nah it’s masturbation in Swedish.
More specifically, "en runk" is analogous to "a wank", but it's not idiomatic.
wanking = "att runka"
I wanked = "jag runkade"
I had a wank = "jag tog en runk", non-idiomatic. You'd say "jag runkade". If you want to use a noun, "jag drog en tralla".
so 100% in the tradition of the area of software that thought a good name for its photoshop clone would be "gimp"
fascinating, thanks for mentioning :)
GNU/Scrotum is a great name for a lemmy fork, but Richard’s copyright lawyers would probably sue me and the settlement terms would involve him eating his foot skin on my couch and leeching off of my wifi from his 2004 laptop for 12-24 months
Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?
Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.
Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It'd be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. "KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!"
You can deflect him with an inexpensive cleric spell (somatic components: broccoli and a copy of Microsoft Windows).
he’ll probably draw a significant amount of power from the fact that some of the walls in my house contain GNU utilities running on small Linux systems
I heard if you make minor modifications to those but then don't publish source (along with branding them and dropping license files) then he can take 20d6 psychic damage
Ah, but you just dealt a small amount of damage by saying "Linux".
Richard’s 2004 laptop runs FreeDOS but he find/replaced all instances of “FreeDOS” in the code to “GNU/Hurd”
spider plants are canonical
Name suggestion: Spider Plant Greenhouse
I do like this one
was pretty surprising when the sensible people took over at OSI and FSF got worse and worse