Captcha

Meet Rambo, Flexa, Dulux and Dickens!

At Captcha, we don’t go as far as baptising our computers (water and electronics …) but we do give them names. 

Is our iMac Rambo named after the films? you might wonder. No, Rambo is the youngest machine at Captcha in a lineage of grading machines named after paint brands. It all started when a very powerful linux machine became Captcha’s primary grading workstation. In Barry’s suite, he had a neon sign that was gifted to him by director Ismael. The sign read: “Flexa, pick your colour here”. When it came to naming the new workstation, the name Flexa stuck.

When we opened our extra suite in Rotterdam, the machine there got the name Dulux: also the name of a paint brand!

For synchronising our media between Amsterdam and Rotterdam we also set up a dedicated partition on our server. To avoid confusion, we could not call it Amsterdam or Rotterdam so we named it Dickens. 

Can you guess why? Let us know in the comments!