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Well there are four hard problems in computer science:

1. Naming things 2. Cache coherence 3. Off-by-one errors.



Yep, I gave up on naming things. I tried to use really creative names as is common in the Linux world (Ristretto, Amarok, Brasero, Thunar, etc), but it drove me up the wall (I once named a project "xkas", ugh.) It's so hard to find a name that's easy to pronounce, sounds good on the tongue, and is not already used a million times.

Nobody's ever going to find them through Google, but oh well. Nobody was going to use them anyway. May as well name them the way I like, right? ;)




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