Personally, I prefer names like SUnit and JUnit. And these provide counter-counter examples. :-)
On 8 December 2015 at 23:25, Robert Withers <robert.w.with...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wait. Kafka is a part of Hadoop, now? Getting some Love! There's a good > match right there. Makes for a very good lambda architecture. They need a > meta. Hello squeak!!! Somebody just needs to build a kafka interface and a > spark callback interface. Get squeak with caching to start grinding data, > it's right there. > > You're right, Phil. Furthermore these names are personable, effective > marketing and they always have something to do with what they do. Taker > flume, sqoop, yarn or impala. I'll take the Impala, thank you. It's vintage. > > In my case, choosing Mushroom has a reasonable descriptive power when > considered in light of mobile code budding out all over the grid. It's a > cloud solution. > > Robert > > > On 12/08/2015 05:10 PM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > > Whoever works with Hadoop tech would find names like: > > Hadoop > Spark > Cassandra > HBase > Accumulo > Hive > Pig > Impala > Oozie > YARN > Kafka > Flume > Sqoop > ... > > Go datascience and you'll get: > > R > Shiny > Jupyter > Pandas > Bokeh > D3 > > And in JS: > > Node > Angular > Express > > descriptive names? Not at all. > > What matters is not the name, it is its description. > > And, know what, put a generic name and it will be ungooglable. > > Try with Visual Studio Code ... > > Pfah, descriptive project names... As if these were descriptive: > > Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) > Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) > Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (Trusty Tahr) > Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin) > > Oh yeah super descriptive names: > > Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router > > Have a clue? Enjoy, they have a bunch and renamed a few: > https://www.oracle.com/products/oracle-a-z.html > > Want to know? Pay the dues. > > Phil > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Robert Withers <robert.w.with...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I would need to disagree with you as inquiry is possible by description, >> rather than by name, through conversation with those who don't have to >> inquire, due to their knowledge [see Meno's Paradox...]. So, a third >> possibility exists through communal association. Do you know Kevin Bacon? >> ;-) >> >> I've used that language! >> >> On 12/08/2015 04:02 PM, EuanM wrote: >>> >>> The philosophical issue behind the disutility of project names like >>> these is "Meno's Paradox" >>> >>> On 8 December 2015 at 21:01, EuanM <euan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> "I wish people would choose descriptive names for their projects" - Todd >>>> >>>> I agree. >>>> >>>> I went looking for the current state of dbxtalk recently. It seemed >>>> to ba apackage designed for my needs - to X[-over] from a DB to >>>> [small]talk. >>>> >>>> I went there and the the page started talking about "Glorp" and >>>> "Garage". Neither are mnemonic or meaningful >>>> >>>> These projects are just the tip of the iceberg. >>>> >>>> Pharo project names have publisher-only project names. The project >>>> name equivalent of write-only computer languages, like Brain-F**k. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 7 December 2015 at 17:52, Todd Blanchard <tblanch...@mac.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sigh. >>>>> >>>>> I wish people would choose descriptive names for their projects. I >>>>> went looking on Smalltalkhub for some capability and what I found are >>>>> thousands of packages with names that mean nothing and no description >>>>> entered either. If you want to make sure nobody ever uses your code >>>>> you've >>>>> just taken a giant step in the right direction. But if you hope to make >>>>> something lots of people benefit from - nobody is going to look for >>>>> "mushroom" when they want crypto capabilities. >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, this has been really bugging me lately. We, as a community, do >>>>> a lousy job of making our code easy to find. >>>>> >>>>> -Todd Blanchard >>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 07:38, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I like it, but it seems you missed my point :) >>>>>> mushroom --> 117,000,000 is two orders of magnitude more hidden. >>>>>> Anyway, maybe I overplay its significance. >>>>>> cheers -ben >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Robert Withers >>>>>> <robert.w.with...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I renamed the project to Mushroom and I also dumped the encoding work >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> focus on shutdown, optimization and serialization. Here's the wiki: >>>>>>> https://github.com/SqueakCryptographySquad/Mushroom/wiki >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thanks,Robert >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 12/06/2015 01:42 AM, Ben Coman wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert Withers >>>>>>>> <robert.w.with...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 12/05/2015 09:24 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Robert Withers >>>>>>>>>> <robert.w.with...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Now I think you are right on with your observation. Additionally, >>>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>>> number >>>>>>>>>>> of dialects could increase further with Fuel serialization, just >>>>>>>>>>> port >>>>>>>>>>> SecureSession and bits. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Alright, I came up with a name and it may border on the egregious >>>>>>>>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>>> presenting ... >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> "Maelstrom" >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Great sounding name. However some general advice for the >>>>>>>>>> community, >>>>>>>>>> since I see a lot of great sounding project names drowned out in >>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> noise of our web-search-centric universe. A litmus test for >>>>>>>>>> project >>>>>>>>>> naming is using google search to find which return low search >>>>>>>>>> results. >>>>>>>>>> Today, its more important to be unique than any other attribute of >>>>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>>> name. So in general, *dictionary* english words are not the best. >>>>>>>>>> One technique is to intentionally mispell the word you like. Here >>>>>>>>>> are >>>>>>>>>> some comparative examples (note, the surrounding quotes are >>>>>>>>>> required >>>>>>>>>> to avoid google trying to be helpful and correct the spelling)... >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> "maelstrom" --> 7,480,000 >>>>>>>>>> "maelstroom" --> 6,200 >>>>>>>>>> "maelstrum" --> 2,280 >>>>>>>>>> "maelstruum" --> 7 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Lots of interesting other techniques can be found by searching on: >>>>>>>>>> techniques to generate brand names or domain names. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> cheers -ben >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I would be happy to change the names to something more unique, >>>>>>>>> though it >>>>>>>>> may >>>>>>>>> take a few. Are you suggesting "maelstruum"? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> cheers, >>>>>>>>> Robert >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *Suggesting* yes, but the choice is yours ;) You need to own it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think maelstruum is certainly memorable with the double "u", but >>>>>>>> maybe jarring next the the "m". I'm inclined to maelstroom, since I >>>>>>>> associate it with "zoom". I wouldn't necessarily go for the >>>>>>>> absolute >>>>>>>> lowest results. I have an entirely unsubstantiated belief that >>>>>>>> anything less than 10,000 gives a reasonable chance to compete once >>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>> user's browsing history is taken into account. Finally you need to >>>>>>>> check existing results don't return something abhorrent (I didn't do >>>>>>>> this). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'd encourage to play around testing on google search. Its quick >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> easy to generate and test alternatives. I've added a few more below. >>>>>>>> "maelstra" --> 3,560 >>>>>>>> "maelstram" --> 504 >>>>>>>> "maelstrim" --> 1200 >>>>>>>> "maelstroon" --> 58 >>>>>>>> "maelstroomi" --> 4 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> btw, I wouldn't swap the order of the "ae" since that would be >>>>>>>> susceptible to real typing errors. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> cheers -ben >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >> >> >> > >
