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by asplake 1665 days ago
After a former colleague of mine, Stuart’s rule of system naming: The whizzier the name, the crappier the system. Inside corporates the correlation is uncanny.
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for operating systems, it's the opposite: the crappier the name, the better the OS. "Plan 9", "Fiasco", ...
That’s the thing with correlations, they work both ways :-)