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Ask HN: Names for printers and conference rooms

3 pointsby pinstriped_dudeabout 15 years ago
What's the naming convention at your workplace for -<p>1. Printers and Conference rooms 2. Where do you work? (Company, location)<p>I am very curious on what naming conventions are used by various organizations in various parts of the world. Name of Planets? Names of famous inventors? Name of mountains? Names of Star-Wars characters?

4 comments

grinichabout 15 years ago
Some good comments here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834817" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834817</a>
hgaabout 15 years ago
Two early ones (mid-80s) for laser printers:<p>Treekiller (obvious).<p>Software Hoarder (at Unipress software, the legit licensees of Gosling Emacs, which was also the start of GNU Emacs).<p>Me, I've always used the names of anime gals (home or work).
c1sc0about 15 years ago
We're using names of cities right now. In the previous company I worked we used names of countries for the conference rooms. Pretty boring &#38; completely disfunctional.
wmfabout 15 years ago
Our first conference room was the War Room (gentlemen, you can't fight in here...) so naturally the second was called the Peace Room.