I worked once at a small startup (very small; I was employee #6) at which two of us were named Dave, which led to many funny moments, or at least moments made funny by stress and sleep deprivation.
Some time afterwards we hired a developer named Dave, which resulted in a development group composed entirely of Daves.
We then hired a QA engineer into the group, who wasn’t named Dave, and we decided that this was an unacceptable violation of development-group polymorphism, so we officially renamed him “Dave.” I think we even gave him a certificate.
I worked once at a small startup (very small; I was employee #6) at which two of us were named Dave, which led to many funny moments, or at least moments made funny by stress and sleep deprivation.
Some time afterwards we hired a developer named Dave, which resulted in a development group composed entirely of Daves.
We then hired a QA engineer into the group, who wasn’t named Dave, and we decided that this was an unacceptable violation of development-group polymorphism, so we officially renamed him “Dave.” I think we even gave him a certificate.
This is why tech support is called Bob—all tech support at Demon Internet at one point in the mid-1990s were called Bob.
More generally, it’s the London Dave Problem. (e.g. I get “Diva”. This was the name of my cat.)
[I’ve just worked out what function the Open Thread serves now!]
Exactly: it’s for discussion of topics too trivial for the Discussion section.
Beats waiting around for an opportunity to hijack a comments thread from some other post, I suppose.