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by LAC-Tech 876 days ago
I don't get the Zeus or Thor bit. Of course our indo-european father of the daylight sky has likely killed a few mortals. But does that really stop people contributing to projects named after him? I've been using the Thunar file manager for years...
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the joke is that when walter mitty writes a program and names it 'thor', he is in effect naming it after himself (a wish-fulfillment fantasy version of himself), just like when linus called his versioned blob store 'git', but in a less self-deprecating way