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by thechriswalker 3908 days ago
Surely it's because it looks like a flux capacitor. Seems reasonable to me.
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bdchauvette 3908 days ago
The GP might be referring to the fact that Facebook also has a project called Flux [1].

[1] https://facebook.github.io/flux/

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agumonkey 3908 days ago
Agreed, considering how new and trendy Flux is ... that is a weird name usage.
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deanCommie 3908 days ago
Correct. Compare the image at the top of the article (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UN25h8GKVw/VgxffFjqvUI/AAAAAAAAAQ...) to http://electroshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FluxCapa...
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pluma 3907 days ago
Isn't that mostly an accident of the current data center infrastructure and subject to change? If they had waited until, say, EU-East-1 or Asia-East-1 came along they might as well have called it Switzerland.
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oh_sigh 3907 days ago
They should have called it Uterus.
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