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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

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877 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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langsoul-com ◴[17 Nov 24 05:48 UTC] No.42162264[source]▶
> The color was originally going to be called beccapurple, but Meyer asked that it instead be named rebeccapurple, as his daughter had wanted to be called Rebecca once she had turned six. She had said that Becca was a "baby name," and that once she had turned six, she wanted to be called Rebecca. As Eric Meyer put it, "She made it to six. For almost twelve hours, she was six. So Rebecca it is and must be."

Wasn't expecting tears over a colour

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jvm___ ◴[17 Nov 24 07:42 UTC] No.42162624[source]▶
..in 2014 in honor of Eric Meyer's daughter, Rebecca, who passed away at the age of six on her birthday from brain cancer.
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userbinator[dead post] ◴[17 Nov 24 11:34 UTC] No.42163561[source]▶
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[17 Nov 24 12:07 UTC] No.42163750{3}[source]▶
It is sad to see such a comment come from someone with such high karma and seniority. I hope that it is not reflective of the ethos of this community.

I feel we have way too little humanity in tech. With the advent of AI, that does not promise to improve.

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1. bena ◴[17 Nov 24 12:48 UTC] No.42163933{4}[source]▶
Not to mention, we have a bunch of names that are just jokes, bad puns, random references, or idle wordplay.

C# is named because it’s a step up from C++, which is one better than C, which is the next thing after B.

Python is just an arbitrarily chosen name referencing a comedy troupe.

Linux is Linus’s copy of Minix, which is a minimal Unix, which is based off of Multics, which is a pseudo-initialism.

We have names honoring the dead; Pascal, Ada, Darwin.

We can name one color in one spec in honor of one person’s dead child.

It is neither a burden nor out of character for the field. If you genuinely believe it is a problem, I ask that you step back and reflect on why you truly believe it is.

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2. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[17 Nov 24 22:55 UTC] No.42168112[source]▶
Isn't "PHP" a play on words?

I'm told that it stands for "PHP Hypertext Processor." A recursive acronym.

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3. efreak ◴[17 Nov 24 23:15 UTC] No.42168214[source]▶
Originally it was personal home page