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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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When visiting a friend last weekend, I mentioned as a side remark that lots of people never gave a thought to the name 'Edge' - similar to the old days when lots of people using the Lynx browser never associated it with anything but a big, wild cat. My friend knows a lot of math, including a fair amount of graph theory. Yet, he gave me a puzzled look: What do you mean? Is that name supposed to mean anything special?
Well ... Yes. Like Lynx. And the little Ford Ka (that's some years ago, isn't it?). And the arrow below the Amazon text in the logo. One common brand of Californian raisins imported to Norway had the brand name 'Sun Maid' (with a picture of a young woman carrying a basket of grapes) - my mother never ever would accept the idea that 'Sun Maid' was a play of 'Sun made', ripened in the sun. Marketing folks come up with lots of bright ideas in this class, and 99% of the audience ignores/overlooks it. I am sure that they are prepared for that  .
I guess that a fair share of the Lounge audience has had their share of graph theory. So let me ask: Have you ever been considering the name 'Edge' as related to hypertext graphs? Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
(If you care to indicated whether you feel familiar with graph theory, that would be an interesting additional piece of information!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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In my part of the world*, a dissected plateau, there are many clifftop lookouts and walking trails.
There is a lot of signage encouraging people to keep away from the edge, which I consider excellent advice.
* The coincidence between my postcode and an ancient IBM RJE device/protocol I find amusing.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Do you have bobcats there as well?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Only the skid-steer loader[^] variety.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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On the Edge of working reliably?
Definition of a burocrate; Delegate, Take Credit, shift blame.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Reminds me of a service desk related software made by my earlier company in India. The product (launched in the late 90's) was aptly named as:
ServiceEdge
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As in Edge computing, vertices, etc. Perhaps, it's an interesting thought 
So it's not referring to the rounded corner design? Micro soft edge? :P
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It reminds me of a guitarist.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Edge refers to the Edge of the network where all the fun stuff happens. <- like that sentence.
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Ron Anders wrote: he Edge of the network where all the fun stuff happens
Ted Nelson, the guy who coined the 'hypertext' idea in his book Computer Lib / Dream machines, is taking both of networks where the information is in the nodes, with no information carried in the edges (the way we have become accustomed to, through WWW), but also networks where the nodes are mere branching points with no information in the nodes (possibly except for labeling of the alternative branches), and all the text or other information lies along the edge to the next node.
Nelson makes no discussion about the two alternatives; it may look as if he wasn't very much aware of it at all. If you approach Dream Machines with a conviction that the WWW ball-and-stick model is The One True Realization of Nelson's hypertext ideas, you can certainly find evidence in CL/DM.
If you rather approach it thinking that Nelson meant nodes to be selectors of the next text fragment, as an edge leading up to the next selection point, you will find so much evidence for it that you may think WWW is a gross misinterpretation of the hypertext idea. (At least the 1974 vintage. After 35 years with WWW, our minds have become drilled to think of nothing but the ball-and-stick model for hypertext concepts.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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"Edge", like...sometimes you feel like MS is about to push you off a cliff...
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Quote: Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
I think Marketing said "People will think they have an EDGE with Edge"
More simplistic process of naming your product in 1951
Bush Hog[^]
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trønderen wrote: Have you ever been considering the name 'Edge' as related to hypertext graphs? Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
We are talking Microsoft right?
In 2015, when Edge was introduced, Microsoft would have had about 30,000 people working in Sales and Marketing.
I am guessing their brainstorming a new product name probably did not circle around complex higher mathematics.
While something like 'edgy' would seem like more of a starting point.
No idea what facts are behind the following but it suggests it is closer to what I suggested.
Sean Lyndersay's answer to Why is Microsoft Edge called Edge? - Quora[^]
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OK, I realize that a directed graph of text nodes with edges linking them is completely irrelevant to the name 'Edge'. The coincidence of graph edges and a the name of a tool for navigating these edges is fortuitous.
Then I am probably wrong about 'Lynx' being in any way inspired by 'links'.
Or Ford 'Ka' being inspired by 'car'.
Or the Amazon arrow running from A to z bearing any symbolic meaning.
Or that Californian Sun Maid raisins are made by the sun.
I am as well probably wrong about 'web' being inspired by a spider web.
The name of the WATFOR compiler is has no relationship to the phrase 'What for?'
BASIC is a pure abbreviation of 'Beginner's Allpurpose Symbolic Image Code'; the name is certainly not any hint to the simplicity of the language.
The name of the drink 'Coke' was not chosen for its dark color, almost like the mineral.
Or for that sake, that these rectangular screen areas and the 'Windows' name of an OS is in any way related. The name similarity is a pure coincidence.
Or ... possibly ... Maybe marketing people love to leave some 'Easter eggs' in their marketing material, stuff that isn't immediately visible to everyone. And maybe they like to keep it that way, like a semi-hidden secret. So in their official responses, they do not tell openly where the Easter eggs are hidden. From the comments to my initial post, it looks as if not very many have found the Edge Easter egg.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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This discussion reminds me that it was years before I realized that Borland had likely intended their Quattro to be a Spanish-language-inspired follow-on to Lotus 1-2-3.
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> The name of the drink 'Coke' was not chosen for its dark color, almost like the mineral.
That is correct, actually. "Coke" is an abbreviation of "Coca Cola", which derives from its original recipe that included cocaine and kola.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_historical_origins">Coca-Cola - Wikipedia</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_historical_origins" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_wine">Coca wine - Wikipedia</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_wine" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
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I'm astounded that 'Sun Maid' was to make me think sun-made - it certainly didn't. Also, the Amazon arrow conjures up juvenile graffiti more than anything else.
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