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by ndesaulniers 3842 days ago
Heh, so last week my buddy Tarek Ziade (one of the developers of this) and I were talking about this (kinto) project he's working on. I asked him what the meaning behind the name was. He said "you know the cloud from Dragon Ball. They don't use it as much in DBZ since they can fly."

I asked him if he meant "flying Nimbus?" Apparently, something was lost in translation (I'm in the US, he's in France).

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Well, "kinto" is the name for the cloud in Japanese (see: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Nimbus).
Yeah the full name is "Kinto-un" :)