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How do i come up with a good name for a website or software I am developing. Are there references for naming websites or software?
think of a rude word to use as an acronym, and then fit in the words to make that acronym fit.
SHAFTED was the code name of one internal project I was working on
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OTIS was the clean version I used around managers (Order Tracking Information System)
I let my creativity flow and write up 5-10 names.
Then i google them.If one of them is not in use, i take it. :)
I want to be the names unique ;)
Personally? I don't, they're all horrible. But after a couple days of working on the project it's just a group of letters that means "work left to do," regardless of what I called it. :)
Here is an idea from Paul Graham's Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas essay,
[4] I wrote a program to generate all
the combinations of "Web" plus a three
letter word. I learned from this that
most three letter words are bad:
Webpig, Webdog, Webfat, Webzit,
Webfug. But one of them was Webvia; I
swapped them to make Viaweb.
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What are some ways including machine learning that I can use in my projects to generate things related to another. Like related apps, related websites, related products, etc.
I've been brainstorming these are strategies...
one way i can think of is show items from same category. But that would be too broad.
2nd way improves upon previous step, it's to keep track of what people click next and promote that item. Meanwhile keep bottom list randomized to let other relevant items show up and get clicked.
3rd way is to use machine learning and provide training data somehow and use that.
I want something simple but smart, as it gets better with time.
Collaborative filtering is designed for solving exactly this problem. The problem with this approach is that produces good results having a lot of data only. I mean... A LOT. And it's not a really simple thing to use. However, any machine learning technique is not simple. There are some node.js packages for CF available, but I have no idea how good are they.
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I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name).
The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND".
I have two directions:
inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why but I don't recall any web address similar to this one subdomain.subdomain.domain.com.
inspired.BRAND.com - which I this is best suited for it. Fewer dots and similar to "more friendly" addresses subdomain.domain.com.
Any hints, guidelines, any thoughts is well appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Personally, I would probably go for inspiredby.BRAND.com. It reflects the name of your micro-site, sounds good to me, and is communicated easily by phone as it does not have any hyphens or underscores etc...
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I'm thinking about joining a free software project in order to increase my knowledge of how this kind of projects works, colaborating with people that I dont know (so far), and my C/C++ skills.
I`ve searched on sourceforge and so on, looking for projects that need developers... so my question is: how to join a existing project? (and find one I like)
Pick one you like/are interested in, look over its bug tracker, and contribute patches. As you demonstrate your ability to work along with the developers, you will generally be offered greater involvement (e.g. direct commit access).
#geekosaur has some good points. (+1)
If those don't work, I would consider looking for the lead developer of a project (preferably one with decent activity and leadership) and asking what areas they would like assistance in.
I promise you, almost every open source project manager would absolutely welcome a fresh face to the team!
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I'm writing a small helper utility for obscure software that is used at a local shop. Basically, I would like to know if anyone searches for anything associated with that software and if publishing my work on the Internet would make any sense. I entered the name of the software into Google Trends, but my terms "do not have enough search volume to show graphs" despite the fact that Google lists 250,000 results for the software name, or 35,000 if I explicitly remove terms such as serial and warez from the search.
Does anyone know of alternatives to Google Trends? Or of another way to find out if people search for a particular keyword?
I found what I was looking for.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Yahoo Clues is a service similar to Google Trends. But I don't think it's as effective for any category that is non-entertainment.
If you don't get an answer here, another place to ask might be The Business of Software.
Google Trends was also telling me there wasn't enough data for my query. I found Google Insights to do job nicely. And unlike the AdWords tool mentioned in the author's answer, it actually shows a trend.
Here's an example which shows the emergence of 3 terms with too low of volume to show up on Trends: #bigdata, #datascientist & #datajournalism.
Here's a related SO question.
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There are several ways to secure passwords with an automated encryption algorithm, but sometimes it's best to write it down on paper and keep the paper itself secured. Hackers can't easily get to paper. However, if someone finds that paper, they can see the passwords plainly.
What's a non-automated method of securing information on a piece of paper? For example, have the real password be in every other character (eg p1a2s3s4w5o6r7d8 = password).
Take a character sequence from a book you have lying besides your computer. You can take the sequence in any number of ways: First/second/etc. letter of each word in a chapter you decide, for example.
Have a look here for some history and ideas about steganography ;) Your example is a simple working one, you can even use an invisible ink or write it backwards with only every 5th character relevant etc., it is up to your imagination :)
What youre suggesting is a simple cypher. I'm not sure why you'd want to implement something like that vs. using a password manager like KeyPass but you can us a simple substitution cyper where A=Z, Z=A etc. if you need to write it down.