I wonder if they picked "Eris" based on Greg Hill's *Principia Discordia*. | Hacker News

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		mirimir on Dec 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log erro... I wonder if they picked "Eris" based on Greg Hill's Principia Discordia.

mirimir on Dec 26, 2019 [–]

I did see that it's named after the Greek goddess Eris.

It's just that she isn't a major goddess, and is famous only for her "apple of beauty" trick. And outside classical scholars, that's arguably via Principia Discordia.

So I'm curious.

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