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327 points andsoitis | 4 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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netdevphoenix ◴[17 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.45955050[source]▶
Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names? It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
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1. ddellacosta ◴[17 Nov 25 17:17 UTC] No.45955675[source]▶
"It should almost never be the case that project names conflict"

My corollary to this is "You should never reach for a language you are not fluent in for a name. Especially, just stop it with using Japanese words to name stuff please ffs"

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2. SkyeCA ◴[17 Nov 25 17:52 UTC] No.45956029[source]▶
> You should never reach for a language you are not fluent in for a name

I agree, but that still doesn't stop funny name related issues between languages. One of my favourites was Pidora (a Fedora release for the RPI) which caused offence to some Russian speakers.

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3. ddellacosta ◴[17 Nov 25 18:13 UTC] No.45956241[source]▶
Heh good point. Coq comes to mind too...there was something else recently that sounded terrible in French..."Bitchat" maybe?
4. netdevphoenix ◴[18 Nov 25 10:04 UTC] No.45963274[source]▶
The engineering team at Deep Mind does have penchant for names in foreign languages as seen in Veo, Lyria and Gemini.