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Please don't call your project "hack".

• vortico 10y ago
  Why?
  • kowdermeister 10y ago
    Sounds like a messy stuff hacked together in an hour :) Definitely funny and catchy though.
  • dozzie 10y ago
    Because there is a programming language (PHP dialect) called that.
    • EGreg 10y ago
      But this isn't a programming language. Should Apple have not called their notebook MacBook Air because of Adobe AIR?
      • dozzie 10y ago
        > But this isn't a programming language. It's in field that's close enough. What will you say after, "I wrote my website in Hack and Hack"?
        • qwertyuiop924 10y ago
          I would instead say 'I wrote my website in Hack, and used Hack CSS (not related)' Not optimal, but it works.
  • RobertKerans 10y ago
    Particular to this project 'hack' in CSS generally refers to literally adding hacks in to force something to work, it's not a synonym for tinkering. If the whole project is chock-full of `! important` statements and specific `-moz/-webkit/-ie` prefixes to selectively cover specific bugs, then maybe it would be well-named (if horrific). I get why it's called 'hack', but given that in the context of CSS, 'hack' is almost always perjorative – referring to awful, unclean things you do to bend CSS styling to your will – it's not a very good name.
  • BellsOnSunday 10y ago
    It's a name which is confusing and difficult to search - almost as bad as calling the (Haskell) build tool 'stack', but with added negative connotations.
• damptowel 10y ago
  Also, give it a unique name that's easy to websearch. E.g. No single char names, no common verb or noun, etc.