On: Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras

[Johnny555]

Language and technology has evolved a bit since 1893:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pinhole+surveillance+camera

[theyinwhy → Johnny555]

But does the use of the word pinhole make any sense if it is not a pinhole but a "3.7mm" lense? Pinhole camera is a specific term used for more than a century now. It is well defined. Now someone from marketing thought "let's call our small camera a pinhole camera". Sry, but that is not a pinhole camera. That camera also exists since ages and is called an endoscope camera.

Words are important in IT and if everyone would just think a bit more about terms they use we would have way less friction with business and less business logic bugs.

[Johnny555 → theyinwhy]

>Words are important in IT and if everyone would just think a bit more about terms they use we would have way less friction with business and less business logic bugs.

I wish you the best of luck in your quest to make the English language follow rational rules.

[ithkuil → Johnny555]

I think there is value in complaining and resisting a bit, but one has to be ready to let go when the point of no return is crossed.

[zestyping → theyinwhy]

I support you!