(heading OT) [Rails] [ANN] Capistrano 1.1

[Bill Guindon]

On 3/6/06, Paul Robinson <paul at iconoplex.co.uk> wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2006, at 19:57, Derrick Spell wrote:
>
> > And a macintosh is a type of apple.  Aside from the time Steve Jobs
> > spent in Asia, it seems meaningless to name a computer company
> > after this.  Yet it has been wildly successful.  I don't know, I
> > guess I just don't see what the big deal is.
>
> For what it's worth, the name Apple (as opposed to Macintosh) has a
> very specific meaning, very closely related to the history of
> computing. It is a eulogy to Alan Turing, and is intended as a sign
> of respect to the modern father of computing who died quite close to
> where I type this, after being persecuted for something that is no
> longer a crime here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Alan_Turing#Prosecution_for_homosexuality_and_Turing.27s_death
>
> Now - if you didn't know before - you know why the Apple logo has a
> bite taken out of it. Think about that the next time you look at it.
> It perhaps puts a slightly different angle on those people who have
> it tattooed on their arms as well I suppose...
>
> Anyway, I don't care about the name of software I use as long as:
>
> a) I can remember it
> b) I can spell it first time when I type it into Google trying to
> debug errors

The funny part about that one is Google was supposed to be Googol, but
they misspelled it :)
I imagine they kept it for the same reason, most people would misspell
it anyway (and they seem quite convinced - gmail's spell checker
flagged 'Googol')

> c) It's unique enough for it to show up in Google on the first page
> at least

Good points, and they worked for many products with seamingly meaningless names:
Google, Yahoo!, Monster.com, perl, Python, even Ruby ;)

> Apart from c) which will no doubt be fixed when we all go blog this,
> I see no problem.
>
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> Paul Robinson
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