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		dreeves on Nov 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Graham's long-lost 2006 Infogami essay, "Star... Yeah, that's just me with the colors. I tried to justify my scheme in my own post about naming: http://messymatters.com/nominology Good point about the trickiness in predicting verbability. As for the evocativity of "viaweb" I think it seems generic now but at the time it was more novel: conduct your business via the web. Wow!

BerislavLopac on Nov 1, 2011 [–]

I just submitted your article to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 -- I think you are too modest! ;)

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