I'm curious why they chose 'Cocaine' as the name of the project. Naming a project after a substance illegal in most of the world is pretty bold. I'm looking forward to how they market this outside of Russia.
I met a person named "Cocaine". It was actually the name his mother gave him. Also, he had reached adulthood and hadn't changed the name or started going by "Cain". De gustibus.
Do we have to discuss the name every time somebody chooses something controversial? Yes, you're right; it's a controversial choice. What else is there to say about it? We do this every time.
I think it's a legitimate topic to discuss. I think the name of an app or project is very important to its success.
I'm not offended over the name, but simply curious as to why they chose it. I personally wouldn't choose a controversial name if I wanted my app or project to be adopted by others.
There are also likely to be misunderstandings when communities start forming local Cocaine User Group chapters. There might be difficulty in getting space for meetings, and it will be interesting to see who might show up.
I wonder if it will become a trend to name technologies after taboo items? Imagine if a product called Dildo comes out and it is the best, most easy to use piece of software that ever existed. People would just have to use Dildo and get over the name. It could start a revolution.
"Regardless of the name, these cocaine clouds represent a new force in the cloud services market and show the trending acceptance for Linux containers."
It's me or that beta.yandex.com search engine (that I've never heard before) is a complete ripped-off of google? I mean, I know it's a search engine. But in term of UI and design choices, the beta looks very similar.
It's a teaser for their "Islands" project. In its core, it's something actually new (letting you interact with other sites without leaving search pages). However, in terms of presentation, it is indeed quite similar to google.
I actually really disagree. Google is incredibly simple, it's essentially a header, footer, an input field, three buttons and an image.. It's designed to be as simple (and thus attractive to a larger/broader base) as possible. Maybe I'm not being very insightful here, but it's like comparing two sports cars that are white and saying they're the same.
Actually, Google search results are more and more cryptic with each year pass. Now you don't get organic web results too often, instead you are awash with images and captions with weird padding.
Probably, it was natural design choice. Yandex has all the capabilities to invent and design without copying competitors. For example, they started selling contextual ads and launched maps project earlier than Google.
If lots of people started emailing each other, talking on social networks, etc about it, would that cause a corresponding extra amount of filtering work for the likes of the NSA?
If so, wouldn't it rather screw things up if we got loads of these like, Linux Bomb, Android Plot, OSX Semtex, Windows Terror and so forth?
Surely NSA's filters analyse probabilities of occurrence of words in different context like they do with sex bombs, plot diagrams, "Semtex Films", "Terror Inc" and so on.
It would be nice naming versions after drug names, like Android with their sweets. But it should go from weakest to strongest - whoever starts with cocaine straight away, does not leave themselves a lot of space
Does anyone have any comments other than the name?
Seems like it competes directly against the soon-to-be-released Flynn[1] and Deis[2]. I'm tempted to poke at it a bit, but the documentation seems pretty scant. In theory an open source roll-your-own PaaS is pretty cool, right? Certainly Flynn got tons of attention and funding with a similar value proposition.
Speaking on behalf the the Deis team, it's nice to see another public PaaS getting an open source implementation. We're obviously bigger fans of the Heroku model than the GAE model, but that's the beauty of the new Docker PaaS world. Choice.
I just hope their Docker containers/images end up being portable. Some better docs wouldn't hurt either.
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My guess is, they hired an idiot who loves edgy marketing to name it.
https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core#readme
Think they forgot to list - the bathroom
This plugin makes it even better. "Cocaine butts".
So what, FreeBSD jails based hostings are cool again? But, of course, Docker is much more cool and "innovative".
Maybe with a couple dollar bills they can make rails happen, doesn't seem to work so far.
Do people see potential for this?
I saw a short presentation on it at the weekend at PyCon Ireland, It was above my pay grade but it was intrigueing.
If lots of people started emailing each other, talking on social networks, etc about it, would that cause a corresponding extra amount of filtering work for the likes of the NSA?
If so, wouldn't it rather screw things up if we got loads of these like, Linux Bomb, Android Plot, OSX Semtex, Windows Terror and so forth?
Illegal? Sure, but so is killing. And yet you've got http://www.killermobile.com/ for example.
Seems like it competes directly against the soon-to-be-released Flynn[1] and Deis[2]. I'm tempted to poke at it a bit, but the documentation seems pretty scant. In theory an open source roll-your-own PaaS is pretty cool, right? Certainly Flynn got tons of attention and funding with a similar value proposition.
[1]: https://flynn.io/ [2]: http://deis.io/
Speaking on behalf the the Deis team, it's nice to see another public PaaS getting an open source implementation. We're obviously bigger fans of the Heroku model than the GAE model, but that's the beauty of the new Docker PaaS world. Choice.
I just hope their Docker containers/images end up being portable. Some better docs wouldn't hurt either.