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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2071 days ago
As a potential customer, I guess I am supposed to hypnotised by all these silly names and acronyms but instead I just keep thinking "Just show me the code". Names seem to serve as a way for the authors to avoid telling us exactly what the software does, instead referring to what the software "is". Horribly imprecise and the source of endless arguments. The disagreements in this thread are but a tiny example.

This is nothing new and during the dot-com boom I think the naming nonsense spread to websites, in addtion to software. Software people have been obsessed with wacky names as long as I can remember.

I find this so repulsive and unworkable (e.g., name conflicts, needless keystrokes) that on personal computers I actually name programs I write for myself using an alpha prefix and a numerical suffix. For quick reference I keep a separate index of what each program does. Every program has a unique, sequential number in its name. Every name has the same number of characters.

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I have to break down and plug this then:

https://www.zerotier.com/