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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wpollock ◴[11 Dec 25 18:50 UTC] No.46235391[source]▶
If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called "emacs" does?
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1. gowld ◴[12 Dec 25 00:22 UTC] No.46239342[source]▶
Constantly Swapping its Eight Megabytes, of course.

https://google.com/search?q=Eight+Megabytes++And+Constantly+...

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2. Oreb ◴[12 Dec 25 08:17 UTC] No.46241979[source]▶
“Emacs Makes Any Computer Slow” is another one I remember from back in the days.